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Jordan Spieth’s newest challenge: Remaining No. 1 is ‘a whole other animal’

August 24, 2015

Now that he’s No. 1 in the World Ranking, Jordan Spieth faces the difficult task of staying there. “[H]e is the first to say that becoming No. 1 and keeping it is ‘a whole other animal...I don’t know what that feels like yet,’” Brad Townsend of the Dallas Morning News writes. “He’ll soon find out. On Thursday, just 11 days after his second-place finish in the PGA Championship, he begins the four-tournament PGA Tour playoffs with The Barclays at Plainfield Country Club in Edison, N.J., not far from New York City.”

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