Grading the Hero World Challenge

Jordan Spieth blew everybody away but Jason Day and Patrick Reed also get high marks for their efforts.

By Kyle Porter

Dec 7, 2014 at 12:01 pm ET • 2 min read

Jordan Spieth lit the golf world on fire this week. (Getty Images)

Sunday at the Hero World Challenge certainly wasn't as exciting as it was last year.

After watching Zach Johnson and Tiger Woods do battle in a playoff in 2013, Jordan Spieth's 100-stroke victory was actually pretty boring.

OK, it wasn't a 100-stroke victory, but it sure felt like that ... even to those related to Spieth.

How little drama is left in Jordan Spieth's victory? Just spoke with his parents and they're only "sort of watching" back in Dallas.
— Jason Sobel (@JasonSobelGC) December 7, 2014

The Kid actually won by 10 strokes over Henrik Stenson after shooting 66 in the final round. The win is the third of his career and his second in as many weeks on different continents (he won last week at the Australian Open).

"It was the most fun I've ever had playing nine holes of golf," Spieth told NBC of his final nine holes on Sunday after realizing he had a double-digit lead at the turn.

He's a combined 53 under in his past three tournaments.

And as you can tell from this video, pretty much everybody knew what they were dealing with as Spieth never trailed at this tournament -- shooting 66, 67, 63 and 66 consecutively.

At one point, Spieth went 43 consecutive holes without anything worse than a par before ending that streak late in Sunday's round with a double bogey.

The Kid, who set the margin-of-victory record at this tournament by three strokes, continues to impress and sure looked the part of Future of American Golf this week with nothing but stars and superstars littering the field.

Spieth torched them all and turned an all-star event into one of the biggest blowouts in recent memory.

Not an official @PGATOUR event, but for perspective's sake: nobody has won by 10+ on Tour since 2009 (Brian Gay at Hilton Head).
— Justin Ray (@JustinRayGC) December 7, 2014

It was something special, and he's something special.

Updating last week's tweet: Rory McIlroy had two professional titles at age 21. Jordan Spieth has three -- and seven more months.
— Jason Sobel (@JasonSobelGC) December 7, 2014

"This year I had a goal, my last goal, that it didn't look like was going to be achieved this year," said Spieth of wanting to win two tournaments in 2014.

"Really pumped with how we played the last three weeks. It's not just me, it's a team effort. Going forward 2015 could be exciting."

Nope. It will be.

Here are our grades for Hero World Challenge:

Player	Grade	Analysis
	A	Jordan Spieth broke Tiger's record score of 22 under at this tournament...by four shots. Finish: Win
	A	Jason Day tied the round of the day on Sunday with a 6-under 66. Nornally that would have been enough to be in the hunt for at least a playoff. Spieth makes normal things appear, uh, not normal. Finish: 5th
	A	I love Patrick Reed for a number of reasons but tops on the list is him going out in red and black on Friday in a pairing with Tiger Woods and shooting 63. Big ones on the Augusta State alum. Finish: T3
	B-	Bubba Watson was just four back going into Saturday, but he got blown away by Spieth and couldn't break 70 on the weekend. Finish: T11
	C	Tiger Woods gets an "A" for effort (no, really) but a D for performance (he tied for last). That averages out to a "C" for the 14-time major winner. Still nice to have him back. Finish: T17