PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – Ben Hogan-Sam Snead, Arnold Palmer-Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods-Phil Mickelson are among golf’s greatest rivalries. Their battles were every bit as intense as Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier or New York Yankees-Boston Red Sox.
As soon as Jordan Spieth sank the winning putt at the Masters last month, so began the talk of golf’s next great budding rivalry: Rory McIlroy vs. Spieth. It’s only natural that such talk would surface now that they are Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, in the Official World Golf Ranking. To hear Spieth tell it, bring it on!
“I think that would be really cool,” Spieth said Wednesday at TPC Sawgrass' Stadium Course, site of this week's Players Championship.