USGA: U.S. Open eligibility on case-by-case basis

Dustin Johnson made a few alterations to his equipment setup ahead of the 2019 WGC-Mexico Championship after winning in Saudi Arabia earlier this month. He switched from a TaylorMade M6 driver to an M5 driver, he opted for a TaylorMade P-790 3-iron instead of a P-790 UDI 2-iron, and he changed his wedge setup. Johnson used 54- and 60-degree TaylorMade Hi-Toe wedges in Saudi Arabia, but in Mexico he used 52- and 60-degree TaylorMade Milled Grind wedges, and he added in a 64-degree Hi-Toe wedge. Driver: TaylorMade M5 (10.5 degrees) Shaft: Fujikura Speeder 661 Evolution 2.0 Tour Spec X-Flex Fairway Wood: TaylorMade M5 Titanium (15 degrees) Shaft: Project X HZRDUS 95 grams 6.5-flex Irons: TaylorMade P-790 (3-iron), TaylorMade DJ Proto (4-PW) Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 Wedges: TaylorMade Milled Grind (52 and 60 degrees), TaylorMade Hi-Toe (64 degrees) Shafts: KBS Tour 120S Putter: TaylorMade Spider Tour Black Grip: SuperStroke Pistol GT 1.0 Golf Ball: TaylorMade 2019 TP5x (No. 1)

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His Saturday at the PGA Championship was anything but boring. Still, through it all, he leads by 1 shot. Thirty years after his first win, can he get perhaps his most stunning?

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FORT WORTH, Texas – Few could find fault with Jordan Spieth’s putting stroke, but the former FedExCup champion said a “somewhat significant” change was needed before this week’s Charles Schwab Challenge. It worked. Spieth was impeccable with the putter en route to a bogey-free 63 that gave him a three-shot lead after Thursday’s morning wave at Colonial Country Club. RELATED: Full leaderboard | Tee times | Spieth reacts to Mickelson’s historic win “I just needed to do a bit of adjustment in my stroke feel on some bad tendencies I got into,” Spieth said. “Cameron (McCormick, Spieth’s instructor) … was able to really pinpoint a way to get a stroke feel that left me just a little more comfortable over it.” A lack of confidence was causing Spieth to leave putts about a foot short of his target. Spieth finished 30th in last week’s PGA Championship despite ranking 69th in Strokes Gained: Putting (-0.55) among the 81 players who made the cut. He’s 48th in that statistic this season. He gained more than 4 strokes on the greens Thursday, missing just one of the 18 putts he faced from inside 20 feet. He was 3 for 3 from 5-10 feet, missed just one of the four putts he faced from 10-15 feet and made a 19-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole. He started the day with a 12-foot birdie putt on his opening hole, the par-4 10th. He added birdies at 12 and 17 to shoot 32 on the front nine. Another birdied at No. 2 got him to 4 under before he birdied his final three holes, including a chip-in on the par-3 eighth hole. Spieth, who recently ended a winless drought of nearly four years, is now seeking his second win in his home state in less than two months. His victory in last month’s Valero Texas Open was his first PGA TOUR win since the 2017 Open Championship. He’s ninth in this season’s FedExCup standings thanks to seven top-10s in his last 10 starts. And now he brings his good form into Colonial, one of the courses where he feels most comfortable. He won here in 2016, one of six top-10s in eight starts. “Colonial, it’s Hogan’s Alley,” he said. “Fit it into tight windows, trying to hit fairways, and control the ball on the green. I’ve putted these greens historically very well, that’s No. 1. I’ve had a knack for reading and dialing in the speed out here.” The familiar bentgrass putting surfaces of Colonial Country Club can seemingly fix anything that may ail Spieth’s putting stroke. He showed it Thursday.

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