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Jordan Spieth gets incredible speech from young fan during Players practice round

Jordan Spieth’s practice round at TPC Sawgrass ahead of this week’s Players Championship was momentarily interrupted on Tuesday, but for a good reason: a fan needed Spieth to hear his school speech on the three-time major champ.

“Hey Jordan, I’m doing a report on you at school,” the boy said, which was recorded and posted on Twitter by @RossyNole10 on Tuesday. “Do you want to hear my speech?”

“Sure, buddy,” Spieth said, slowing down.

The next 40 seconds consisted of what was surely an A+ report. The kid read his speech — which he memorized — and dropped knowledge on Spieth’s family, accomplishments, little-known facts and more. You have to watch it for yourself, below.




The video, in less than 24 hours, was shared and retweeted hundreds of times — even by Spieth’s mom, Christine — and has already been viewed more than 700,000 times.

It gets better, too. The kid is now the owner of a new golf ball and glove.

The speech, as it turned out, was an oral biography of Spieth, spoken in the first person as if it were Spieth doing the talking.

The young man gave a flawless rundown on Spieth’s life, such as his date of birth and place of birth, when he learned to play golf, becoming one of the youngest golfers to win the Masters and U.S. Open, the fact that Spieth is a big Dallas Cowboys fan and is friends with former quarterback Tony Romo.

Spieth stood there for the entire presentation, obviously impressed. When the young man was done, he got a huge smile from Spieth and applause from onlookers.

Several things to point out:




• The kid might have a career in politics. He gave the speech, without any hesitation or sign of nervousness, without any notes, and also didn’t make it sound robotic. In other words, it flowed.

• The John Deere Classic people will love this, because in addition to citing Spieth’s major championships, the kid worked in Spieth’s inaugural Tour victory at the John Deere.

• He also did enough research on Spieth to know he had a special-needs sister (Ellie) and that Spieth’s foundation works to create opportunities for special-needs people.

• He also knew Spieth’s middle name is Alexander.

As of 11 p.m. on Tuesday, the Twitter post has been viewed more than 400,000 times. Among those re-tweeting was Spieth’s mother Christine, who commented “Oh, my heart.”



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