Bamberger's Case For Spieth As Sportsman Of The Year

Jordan Spieth is lagging at 3% in the voting as American Pharoah has opened up a huge lead over the Kansas City Royals with time running out on Sports Illustrated's Sportsman Of The Year voting.

SI's Michael Bamberger makes his case for Spieth and while the likelihood of swaying The Editors seems unlikely, it was good to read where he places Spieth's historic 2015 campaign.

There were other highlights in a season that will go down as one of the five or 10 best in the (roughly) 150-year history of professional golf. In August, Spieth took solo second at the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits, near the factory town of Kohler, Wis. In September he won the Tour Championship at East Lake, in Atlanta—the course Bobby Jones grew up playing—and with it the FedEx Cup. In October, at the Presidents Cup in South Korea, he was the buoyant epicenter of the winning team, as the U.S. beat the Internationals by a point.

So, yes, this Jordan Spieth was a big-time big winner in 2015. But the name of the honor under discussion here is Sportsman of the Year. That’s why he’s most deserving.