ST ANDREWS, Scotland — Pressure? What pressure? That seemed to be the message Jordan Spieth wanted to send out as he prepared for his attempt to become the first player since 1953 to win the year's first three majors.
Calm? Modest? Self-effacing? Witty? Grandfatherly, even? The 21-year-old American wonderkid was all of those as he gave an assured performance at a packed news conference on the eve of the 144th British Open at St Andrews.
Spieth is the new kid on the block, the name on everyone's lips at the Home of Golf, but he played down the significance of the expectation that might bear down on him following his victories at the U.