Wise: Spieth Creates His Own Off-Season, Cutting Back Schedule

The prospect of burnout has been apparent all of 2016 after Jordan Spieth played a wacky 2015-16 off-season schedule. Mercifully for his fans, Spieth won't be repeating the cycle again, with merely an Australian Open defense and Bahamas-bound World Challenge start.

Art Stricklin reports for Golf.com that Spieth has enjoyed a genuine off-season and probably won't be jetting off for fall golf in Asia anytime soon. This should come as a warning to all wanting to keep expanding the calendar that at least one star probably is getting wise to the limitations of, oh, I don't, sanity.

That’s a marked departure from his schedule a year ago. After his landmark 2014-15 season, Spieth circled the globe in search of tournament wins, exposure and appearance money. He played in five tournaments in five different countries from November 2015 to January 2016, with two separate trips to Asia. Last spring he admitted he was run down.

“I don’t need that,” Spieth said of his extensive travels. “I didn’t miss it at all.”