Green Jacket gets Jordan Spieth so fired up

Defending champion Jordan Spieth received an unexpected extra incentive to repeat his 2015 Masters success this week, just from the thought of returning his Green Jacket to the Augusta National locker room.

Masters tradition dictates that the fabled jacket is allowed to leave the golf course for the year of the winner’s reign before being restored to it’s rightful peg in the Champions’ Locker Room. And the realisation for the 22-year-old that that time had arrived got the Texan’s competitive juices flowing even faster.

“When I packed it to go down to Austin (for the WGC Dell Match Play), because I drove to Austin, Houston (for the Shell Houston Open last week) and flew here; I was like, wow, there’s a possibility that I don’t have this back at my house anymore when I was leaving home,” Spieth said last night before hosting the annual Champions Dinner.