Jordan Spieth has done a lot of strange things in a career that already includes 13 PGA Tour wins, three major championships and a comeback from wrist surgery. At Harbour Town, he found another one. The 32-year-old was the only player on the PGA Tour over the last 20 years to be under par, have four or more double bogeys and still avoid a bogey through 36 holes in a tournament.
Spieth opened the RBC Heritage with rounds of 69 and 72 and stood at 1 under par through 36 holes, even though he had four double bogeys and nine birdies. That split personality showed up again Saturday, when he birdied the par-5 2nd hole, then made his first bogey of the week on the par-4 6th after a three-putt. He was 13 shots behind leader Matt Fitzpatrick, but the numbers still made the point: no one on Tour in the last two decades had put together that combination before.
The odd line fits Harbour Town, where Spieth has always seemed to find something that works. He won the RBC Heritage in 2022, finished runner-up in 2023 and has five top-12 finishes in 10 appearances at the course. He also said before this week, after closing with a final-round 68 at the Masters, that he was hitting it better than in the year he won there — the same kind of belief that has kept him chasing the form that carried him through his best stretch from 2015 to 2017.
There is still a gap between the swing Spieth says he has and the scorecard that follows. He said of Harbour Town, “Probably the best I ever hit it here and I typically putt these greens very well.” He also said, “I hit it better than the year I won and I hit it way better than any of the second places or fourths that I hit it.” The problem, as his first 36 holes showed, is that improved ball-striking has not yet cleaned up the mistakes that turn good rounds into odd ones. That is what makes his week in South Carolina hard to pin down and harder to dismiss.
Spieth now has four top-12 finishes in his last six starts in the 2026 season, another sign that the game is inching back toward relevance. What he does with it next matters more than the stat line itself: whether Harbour Town becomes another near miss, or the place where the recovery finally starts to look like something more durable.