SONY OPEN IN HAWAII

January 18, 2026

Jordan Spieth

Waialae Country Club

Quick Quotes

Q. Jordan, overall how would you characterize the week as a whole?

JORDAN SPIETH: Yeah, I thought I kicked some rust off. I thought it was better than a month ago. Certainly a lot of positives to go off. Historically I've had a really hard time on these greens; that continued this week.

But I'll go into some more familiar ones coming up the next few events. I got either a week or two weeks depending on when I play next to kind of trim the fat a little bit and get tighter and more consistent.

But I was very happy with the control of the ball, especially in the conditions. Then today was a day to day take advantage and got off to a nice start and unfortunately was a just little off today with the striking and with the putting.

Days like that happen. You kind of hope they happen on Monday and not on Sunday. It was a little bit of an off day, but all in all coming into the week I felt pretty confident about where things were at, so I would've liked to maybe finish higher.

It was a nice finish birdieing the last couple and feeling like I can take some momentum into the beginning of the season and hopefully get on a nice little run.

Q. Is the putting more the greens here not the stroke in general?

JORDAN SPIETH: It's a little bit. I didn't stroke it very well. I've been working on some things trying to get my stroke nice. I made a couple really bad strokes today.

But, you know, it's also hard to know exactly where it's at when you're just playing at home. When you come out to a tournament, okay, I got to kick this in a little bit more or whatever it may be.

So at least I know what it is and what I need to work on. It's harder to know, like I said at home. It's easier to know when you're playing. There has been one official PGA TOUR event in five months, so that's a long stretch.

I did it last year into the beginning of the season, but I feel in better place at this point than I was at this very time last year. All I can try and do is get better each day.

Q. You talked about having more fun on the golf course, enjoying it a little bit more. Is that attitude helping you take the positives and negatives from this week?

JORDAN SPIETH: Yeah, for sure. I mean, it was fun. The first day kind of stunk being on the afternoon wave and feeling like you're kind of starting behind, but the shots playing out there were super fun to kind of have to play.

Again, like on a driving range you're not normally hitting a lot of those shots. You're not hitting 5-iron from 160 and trying to like chip it.

You just get a really good gauge on where things are at, and when you're doing it well it's really fun. I felt like I did a lot of things really well this week. The few things that I didn't, I'll go improve on. And really it was just a couple holes that kept me out of this tournament.

I played No. 9 1-under; probably the easiest hole on the course.

I played No. 15 and 14 I think 3-over.

So there are hard holes, but not quite that hard. There were a number of different things. In general I just missed them in the wrong spots, and that's just playing golf and shaking some of the rust off as we head into the next few events.