Jordan Spieth on significance of Crush It! Cup: ‘Kids are the future’ | Golf Central | Golf Channel
Golf Central on YouTube is brought to you by the new Chrome Tour Golf Ball from Callaway. Jordan Speed and his wife Annie created the Jordan Speed Family Foundation. The foundation helps grow awareness and offers financial support in four philanthropic areas, military families, pediatric cancer, individuals with special needs, and junior golf. Today the foundation hosted the Crush It Cup, a youth golf tournament that raises money for those endeavors. And we are thrilled to be joined now by the former world number one Jordan Spe. It’s nice to see you. We’ll go inside the ropes with you in just a little bit. Let’s start with the second Crush It Cup. What should we know about the tournament and what you’re hoping to accomplish? Yeah, like you said, it’s the second one. It’s uh through my partnership with Invited Clubs and uh so we had 18 states represented. Essentially what Invited did was ask juniors to go out and play holes of golf and those holes would raise a certain amount of money and then they wanted to partner with our foundation. It’s kind of a unique opportunity where um you know we we are recipients of some of those funds with our foundation and obviously they’ll go right back a lot of it back into junior golf amongst those four pillars that you mentioned. So it was a great day. It was a we had um you know we had like I mentioned 18 states represented. I think we had uh like something like 15,000 holes played. I mean, just an absurd amount. Some of these individuals just went out and did what we love to do all summer, but they did it for a good cause. You know, so many young people and old people look up to you. I know you spent some time with a youngster today named Duke. What do you gain from an experience like that? Yeah, so Duke’s a six-year-old who actually almost didn’t make it when he was born and uh he had some brain bleeding off one of the sides of his brain, then the other side. Anyway, um what I was told was that golf actually has been something that’s like actually improved his brain. I said to his parents is that normally it does the opposite for the rest of us, but um it’s amazing that it has that effect on an individual getting him outside and he was he had the most energy of anybody here today. It was super cool. I mean, you know, we were all kids and a lot of us a fan of sports and you know, it kind of reminds you to just go out and kind of live a day like Duke. But as a parent, you know, now I have see that side of things. And um just what they had been through and then, you know, where they have him now, every day is a, you know, a blessing. He’s doing better than ever. And um you know, stories like that are obviously super cool wherever they come, but obviously in a a place here, um you know, involved in this kind of a tournament. Um I wasn’t expecting it. That’s a great story. And so much of your foundation is geared toward helping children. The foundation has donated more than $10 million to your charity partners. Why was that important to you? young people, kids in particular. Well, I kids are the future, right? So, um whether it’s pediatric cancer and you’re just trying to make lives easier for you know the patient or even the families or the travel or however it can be easier um you know on on them going through something that crazy to obviously junior golf military families that are affected by having a parent that’s overseas protecting us. I mean it’s at the center of everything that we’re doing within our foundation. my little sister at special needs. So, we obviously know all the um the organizations within special needs to to get involved in to help these again the families but also the individuals um learn and grow and be comfortable, be confident. Um so, yeah, I mean it’s it’s at the center but it’s you know the idea is for it to start with kids and grow from there. But, um but yeah, I mean kids are our future, right? So, it’s interesting having kids now. It’s cool that we have this platform. We’ve been at it 11 or 12 years now and like you mentioned um you know over $10 million donated and and we’ll continue on that path forward. Yeah, having kids definitely changes your perspective. If our audience listening at home wants to get involved, Jordan, in future Crush It Cups or some of your other projects, what’s the best way for them to do that? Well, you can go through my website at jordanspegolf.com. You can also, you know, go to invited’s website. Um and you can also watch a lot of what happened today. It’ll all be posted, you know, through my socials, their socials, and um, you know, it’s I thought that it was amazing in year one. It just blew it out of the park in year two. So hopefully we uh we can continue to do so on that path forward. Can’t believe how busy you are. You’re a host. You’re a father and husband. You’re a PGA Tour player. My lasting image of you though this year was you grinding on the range in the wind in San Antonio. I don’t know if you remember on that Tuesday and Wednesday, you’re coming off the hand injury just trying to get reps ahead of the Masters. What’s the state of your game and the state of your health as we get the uh end of the year? Yeah, I’m very healthy. Um uh I’, you know, it was nice. Last off seasonason I was in a cast off of surgery and this offseason I really didn’t take much time off once the season ended. I said, you know, I I wasn’t able to get things right where I wanted them to be. And now I’ve got, you know, five months to get them, you know, set in stone so I don’t have to do this bouncing back and forth. I’m healthy. Um you know, I’m stronger than I’ve been in a long time. And uh yeah, I mean we’ve had good weather in town, so I’ve been able to get a lot of work in, but also a lot of family time. It’s been a really good mix and I look forward to teeing it up here in a couple weeks and then, you know, starting off the season in Hawaii. Well, I know you enjoy that family time, but you were also on the edge of making the US RDER Cup team. I imagine you’ll always be in that conversation. It must have been tough to not be there. Did you watch? How much did you take in or did you do something else? Yeah, it was it was kind of hard. I didn’t watch much um at the beginning. I was trying to I was just just trying to maybe get away for for a little while. I still but I still look pull up my phone and check it out pretty much every match. And then uh you know when Sunday hit, we were actually traveling back in town from being out of town and I I got I got to watching that singles and obviously got very exciting at the end and you know watching my partner JT just roll in that big putt that looked like it might cap you know or at least continue a record comeback. It was it got really exciting there on Sunday, but it was yeah, it was killer not being there. Look, I’d been a part of the previous five and uh I I didn’t expect to be there um this year uh when the picks were coming out and stuff. I needed to do a little bit more this season, but um you know, missing that one obviously a little bit of lit a fire in me. I I hit a lot of balls those few days um when the tournament was going on um as I do when uh golf’s being played where I’m not there. So, um it’s good. Maybe I needed a little humbling and and kind of get back to work. Speaking of JT, I pulled him aside on Sunday afternoon and said, “You handled things right.” Because I thought he was hyped at the right times. He tried to keep the crowd quiet when they got unruly. He did a lot of wonderful things, not to mention played great on that Sunday singles. He also announced last week, as you know, he’s going to miss some time after that back surgery. As someone yourself who’s missed time with injury, what advice will you give him, if any? just that I was I was told um you know by by most everybody across across all kinds of sports that have had stuff is that you you never come back too late so take your time. Um uh I he seems to already be in that frame of mind. I know he’s everything went really well and um I think looking back he’s very happy that he ended up having it. the um you know what they thought was going on was going on and obviously that’s a relief just to know that it you couldn’t have avoided it in a way. Um I kind of ran into that too just curious and um so I think he’s in a a good place and he’ll get the right people around him and you know anything he bounces off me we’ve been we’ve been texting every day so um as stuff continues to come up um I journaled everything which I thought was really interesting and it helped it helped kind of see the progress that was actually happening. Some days it doesn’t seem like there is. So, um, you know, I’m fully confident that we’ll see a a number one type player in the world, Justin Thomas, even by, you know, in 20126 at some point. It’s just going about it the right way and getting back. But I
Jordan Spieth joins Golf Central to share what the Crush It! The Cup youth golf tournament means to him and his family as he aims to inspire the next generation of golfers. #golfchannel #golfcentral
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Jordan Spieth on significance of Crush It! Cup: ‘Kids are the future’ | Golf Central | Golf Channel
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Hope Jordy and JT get back on the course this January – miss those guys!