Steve Stricker. Zach Johnson. Bill Hass. Jonathan Byrd.
What does Jordan Spieth have in common with those guys? Other than the fact that they all play on the PGA Tour. Â Oh, you know what they have in common! When all of them take their hats off after a round of golf, they expose the fact that they’re all suffering from cripplingly bad hairlines. And, like Jordan, most of them have been since a young age.
As a 21-year-old, it’s probably a sore subject. You know it’s happening, but you do not want to talk about it other than when you’re alone, in front of a mirror and silently screaming, “WHY GOD?!?”
But yesterday, in an effort to apparently console Spieth during his +3 round at The Players Championship, Rory McIlroy, a person who shouldn’t comfort anyone about hair loss, told Jordan to not worry when it comes to his ever-growing forehead because he’s got a green jacket. Just what he probably needed to hear as his round went into the shitter.
From McIlroy’s post round interview after Thursday’s round at The Players Championship:
Q. Jordan was clearly struggling, it looked like you were almost trying to cheer him up, is that the case?
RORY MCILROY: It’s funny we were talking about hair styles. (Laughter.) It’s funny — sort of hair styles or something like that. But anyway, I sort of said to him, you have a green jacket, your hair can be whatever you want it to be.
“Yo Bro, I know your hair is a fucking atrocity, but fuck it, right? You have that green jacket AND if it weren’t for me, you’d be the #1 player in the world. Chin up.”
In light of this, I now expect Spieth to dust the course with McIlroy today. Insult a man’s golf game, sleep with a man’s woman, but don’t you dare talk about his hairline.
[H/T FTW]