Jordan Spieth’s Deal With The PGA Tour Is Obvious

At the end of the 2018 PGA Tour season, a lot of talking heads were making a big deal of the fact that Jordan Spieth came up an event shy of what was required of him by those funky and bendable PGA Tour rules.

The fact that Jordy played so poorly that he missed making the final 30 at East Lake left him, gasp, in violation of PGA Tour policy.  We’d call them “rules” but the only rules are the Rules Of Golf, the PGA Tour has “policy” which means it can be interpreted just about any way it wants, depending on who they need to “interpret” that for, who’s the guy on the hot seat?

In the case of Phil Mickelson, it’s painfully obvious that the PGA Tour “policy” is to look the other way when Lefty does things that violate some of those “policies” in the PGA Tour “Handbook.”

Which brings us back to Jordan Spieth, one of the tour’s Golden Boys, squeaky clean compared to “Riverboat Lefty,” a documented big-time gambler with connections to big-time gamblers, one of whom is a convicted felon.

As aghast as the Talking Heads at The Golf Channel might have pretended to be, it was obvious to anyone with a lick to sense that Jordan Spieth — first, would not be fined a dime and second, they’d give Jordy the old “wink, wink, we’ll work something out.”

When it was announced that Spieth would be showing up in Las Vegas next month to participate at the Shriners Hospitals For Children event, we know exactly what went down.

Typically, which means never, Spieth doesn’t show up for any of these fall “cross-over” events.  He’s got better things to do like going to University of Texas football game along with searching for his lost skill set that won him three majors.

Did we mention that Jordy was awful in the playoffs and got hammered in the Ryder Cup singles by the legendary Thorbjorn Olesen — the weak link of the European side?

Did we mention that Jordy stunk so bad for most of 2018 that he went winless?  Spieth going winless is like Mickelson going for a year without making a bet.

Which brings us back to Jordy’s Vegas Vacation scheduled to begin on November 1.

This was being thrown around at the end of the season:

According to PGA Tour rules, Spieth “shall be subject to a major penalty,” which is a fine of at least $20,000 or even suspension.

Now we know that the PGA Tour pretends to have “rules” but it’s really more like “policy” which means it simply depends on who violates said “policy.”

At East Lake, Andy Pazder, a henchman for the Sherriff of Nottingham, aka Commish Jay Monahan, took care of said violation.

Pazder proclaimed:

“I have talked to Jordan and we’ve resolved it. We have come to a resolution. I’m not going to be able to share the details of that.  I will say the result is something that you will see next season. It’s resolved in a way that’s going to be a win for our tournaments, our fans and golf in general.”

Okay, what actually happened went something like this:

Pazder:  “Look Jordan, we’ve talked this over back in Ponte Vedre over a few beers and the Commissioner says you basically need to pick one of our obscure cross-over events, play in it and all is forgotten.”

Spieth:  “What are my choices?”

Pazder:  “Sanderson Farms, The Shriners, Mayakoba or the RSM.”

Spieth:  “We play at a farm?”

Pazder:  “No, Sanderson Farms is the sponsor, we play in Jackson, Mississippi.”

Spieth:  “Where is the Shriners?”

Pazder:  “Vegas, baby!”

Spieth:   “Vegas?  Okay, I’m in,  will Rickie (Fowler) be there?”

Pazder:  “Yeah, Rickie’s in.”

Spieth:   “Great, me too, I’m in.”

Pazder:  “Wonderful, you’re good, now I can come up with some blabber that your situation has been ‘resolved.”

Spieth:  “Great, can I get a free room?”

Pazder:  “Done.”

And just like that, the Great Jordan Spieth “rules violation” was resolved.

See you in Vegas, Jordy.