Who will win more Majors in their career: Rory or Spieth?

[Gunther]

Whats funny is this notion that Jordan is a great putter.  It simply isn't true. Jordan's Tour Rankings:  T108 from inside 5 feet.  87th from 5-10 feet.  84th from 10-15 feet. Those stats sure don't look like THE BEST PUTTER from 5 to 15 feet.

lol, but at least he's genuine...oh, wait, what?

[pumaAttack]

lol, but at least he's genuine...oh, wait, what?

What does this comment have to do with his overrated putting abilities?

Please try and stay on topic.  It is only courteous to the rest of the forum.

[Gunther]

What does this comment have to do with his overrated putting abilities? Please try and stay on topic.  It is only courteous to the rest of the forum.

lol, will do, thanks for the reminder puma.

[Golfingdad]

Whats funny is this notion that Jordan is a great putter.  It simply isn't true.

Jordan's Tour Rankings:

T108 from inside 5 feet.

87th from 5-10 feet.

84th from 10-15 feet.

Those stats sure don't look like THE BEST PUTTER from 5 to 15 feet.

I don't recall anybody (besides the one TST member your quoted) talking about how Spieth made his hay from 5 to 15 feet.  They did talk about him and the longer putts.  Oh look ... 3 posts up (and not to mention quoted below that with a retraction from the same guy you're disagreeing with) ...

Spieth's putting rank by distance,

<5' - ranked 112th

5'-10' - ranked 87th

10'-15' - ranked 81st

15'-20' - ranked 5th

20'-25' - ranked 1st

>25' - ranked 6th

Spieth's stats are kinda stupid really. He actually gets worse as he gets closer to the hole. I think he struggles on flatter putts. Probably why he putted so well at Augusta.

I think your 5-15 ft is a bit off. There are at least 80 people who are better than Spieth this year from inside of 15 ft ;)

[MrDC]

Both are closers, both have all the skills needed, both have different strengths but equally as dangerous.

So it really comes down to intangibles, and I think Jordan is the pick, I know it's easy to say right now because he's the hottest player on the planet but I think he lives, eats and breathes golf, and that's what it takes to keep winning, you have to be in the game every stroke of every round, I don't see that in Rory, I think his mind wanders, but its just a fans opinion.

[pumaAttack]

I don't recall anybody (besides the one TST member your quoted) talking about how Spieth made his hay from 5 to 15 feet.  They did talk about him and the longer putts.  Oh look ... 3 posts up (and not to mention quoted below that with a retraction from the same guy you're disagreeing with) ...

If you watch any golf coverage, it is pretty common for somebody to revel in how good of a putter he is...

[skydog]

Just rhetorically I wonder how different or not these poll results would look if it came after the Masters but before Chambers Bay. My guess is they may have been reversed- I probably would have voted for Rory at that point and I voted for Spieth now. Everyone knew Jordan was good after Augusta but I think a lot of folks, myself included, weren't totally convinced on his game until CB...and even more so after almost going 3 in a row on Monday.