As Golf’s Best Player, Jordan Spieth Is Determined to Get Better [NYT]

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I'd add take an extra long break. The guy has been going non-stop since a little before Masters up to now. Rest up.

Henrik Stenson, who was paired with Spieth for the final two rounds at East Lake, praised Spieth’s putting but also singled out his mental focus, describing both as “the best in the world.”

Mental focus is not magical thinking. In Spieth’s case, his mind is where preparation, analysis and design intersect. The mental side of the game, he said, is about “taking situations from the previous weeks, dissecting them, figuring out what went right, what went wrong; when I went on good stretches, when I didn’t bounce back from a bogey or when I made a couple birdies and then made a couple bogeys right after; trying to understand what mistakes I made in my game decision-wise.”

Asked what he could do for an encore in 2015-16, Spieth said: “Hopefully improve. Get better.”

He checked off the areas in which he could improve: “Ball-striking. I can get stronger. I can hit it farther. My short game.”

The way he ended the playoffs, it is easy to forget that he began them with his first back-to-back missed cuts of the season.

“It gives me a lot of confidence going forward for the next 20 years,” Spieth said, “to know that if I remain healthy, that even when things are poor we can get back to this level quickly.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/29/sports/golf/complacency-is-no-worry-as-jordan-spieth-charts-his-encore.html?_r=0