Jordan Spieth is a professional golfer from the United States who has a net worth of $110 million. He is one of the highest-paid athletes in the world, earning almost $1 million each year. In total, he has won more than $40 million through PGA tournament winnings alone, as of this writing. This places him among the top 20 highest-paid golfers in the history of the PGA Tour.
Jordan also earns tens of millions of dollars per year from endorsements, on top of his tournament earnings. Between June 2017 and June 2018, Spieth earned a total of $42 million in salary and sponsorships, according to Forbes.
Spieth is only the second player in history to have won the US Junior Amateur competition in both 2009 and 2011, and he is the first to accomplish so in 2009. (Tiger Woods was the first). Jordan was the world’s top PGA Junior golfer when he was just 17 years old, and he held that position until recently.
At the University of Texas, he earned first-team All-American honours and the NCAA golf tournament championship during his freshman year. He graduated in 2012, halfway through his second year, and immediately began competing on the PGA Pro Tour. After being named PGA Rookie of the Year in 2013, Spieth joined with Under Armour and BioSteel Sports Supplements to raise money for the organisation.
The Valspar Championship was his first PGA Tour victory in 2015, making him the third-youngest player in the history of the tour, behind Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia. Jordan also set a new 36-hole record at The Masters that year, and he went on to win the US Open with a final score of five under par.
Behind Woods and Garca, he is the third-youngest player in PGA Tour history to win multiple championships. He is also the youngest US Open champion since Bobby Jones won the tournament in 1923 when he was just twenty-one years old.
Jordan Spieth Early Life
Jordan Alexander Spieth was born on July 27, 1993, in Dallas, Texas, and is known professionally as Jordan Spieth. Besides being a computer engineer who used to play basketball in college, his mother Chris is also the creator of a media analytics company. His father, Shawn, used to play baseball in college and is the founder of a media analytics company. Jordan grew up with two younger siblings, Steven and Ellie, and spent his childhood participating in sports such as golf, basketball, baseball, football, and soccer.
He began by practising on his family’s yard, but he eventually persuaded his parents to become members of the Brookhaven Country Club so that he could improve his game on a professional golf course. In 2011, Spieth earned his high school diploma from St. Monica Catholic School and Jesuit College Preparatory School, where he also played golf.
Jordan Spieth Early Career
During the 2008 and 2009 Junior PGA Championships, Jordan finished second, and the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) honoured him the Rolex Junior Player of the Year for his efforts in 2009. Jordan was the top-ranked player in the AJGA Golf Rankings in July 2011, just a few months before turning 18 years old.
Spieth made history the previous year when he competed in the HP Byron Nelson Championship, becoming the sixth-youngest golfer to do so. He finished tied for 16th place, and he competed in the event again the following year, finishing tied for 32nd place. During his time as a student at the University of Texas, Jordan competed in the Walker Cup, and his efforts on the school’s golf team won him the honours of Player of the Year and Big 12 Freshman of the Year, as well as selection to the All-Big 12 Team.
Following his appearance as an alternate in the 2012 U.S. Open (tied for 21st place), the World Amateur Golf Ranking named Spieth the world’s top amateur golfer for the first time.
Jordan Spieth Professional Career
With his victory at the John Deere Classic in July 2013, Jordan became the first teenager to win a PGA Tour tournament since Ralph Guldahl won the Santa Monica Open in 1931. Jordan became professional in 2012 and became the first teenager to win the John Deere Classic since 1931.
Upon winning the tournament, Spieth was elevated to the status of full-fledged member of the PGA Tour, earning him eligibility for the FedEx Cup, the PGA Championship, the 2013 Open Championship, and the 2014 Masters.
He finished in a tie for fourth place at the Deutsche Bank Championship and was selected to represent the United States in the 2013 Presidents Cup in South Africa. Jordan received the honour of being voted PGA Tour Rookie of the Year on September 27, 2013, and he finished the year ranked #22 in the Official World Golf Ranking, the highest position in the sport.
In 2014, he competed in his first Masters tournament and finished tied for second, becoming him the tournament’s youngest ever runner-up in the tournament’s history. Following the Masters, Spieth’s position in the Official World Golf Ranking rose to #9, and he went on to become the youngest American to compete in the Ryder Cup since 1929 later that year. Jordan won the Emirates Australian Open in November 2014, and a week later, he was successful in the Hero World Challenge in Abu Dhabi.
In 2015, Spieth won the Valspar Championship and was ranked as the world’s sixth best golfer by the Official World Golf Ranking. Afterwards, he finished runner-up at the Valero Texas Open, which helped him move up to #4 on the world rankings.
In April 2015, he won the Masters, becoming the second-youngest golfer in history to do so and the second-ranked player in the world. Jordan had won the United States Open in June of that year before going on to win the John Deere Classic and finish second at the 2015 PGA Championship, gaining the coveted number one ranking in the Official World Golf Ranking.
His victory in the 2015 Tour Championship propelled him to the top of the FedEx Cup standings and won him a $10 million cash prize. Without factoring in the bonus, Spieth earned more than $12 million in total in 2015.
Jordan won the Hyundai Tournament of Champions, Dean & DeLuca Invitational, and Emirates Australian Open in 2016, and finished runner-up in the Masters the following year. Jordan also won the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and the Open Championship the following year. In 2018, Spieth was appointed as the Chairman of the Player Advisory Council for the PGA Tour.
Jordan Spieth Personal Life
The romance between Jordan and Annie Verret began during their high school years, and he proposed to her on Christmas Eve in 2017. The following year, over the Thanksgiving weekend, the pair tied the knot. Founded in 2014, the Jordan Spieth Family Foundation generates awareness and finances for organisations that support paediatric cancer, special needs children, military families, and junior golf. Spieth has raised more than $1 million for these causes.
Jordan Spieth Awards and Achievements
Spieth was named the PGA Tour Rookie of the Year in 2013 for his efforts on the course. The year 2015 was a particularly successful one for him, garnering him the titles of PGA Player of the Year, PGA Tour Player of the Year, PGA Tour top money winner, and FedEx Cup Champion, as well as the Vardon Trophy and Byron Nelson Award. Jordan was also awarded the Vardon Trophy and the Byron Nelson Award in the same year.
Jordan Spieth Property
Jordan purchased a mansion in Dallas, Texas, in 2016 from fellow golfer Hunter Mahan for more over ten thousand square feet. A source told ESPN that Spieth spent $7.15 million for the five-bedroom mansion, which has an indoor basketball court, a 12-car garage, and an exercise area equipped with a golf simulator.
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