Jordan Spieth says gambling is fueling rowdy golf crowds and wants the sport to address it soon

It's harmless to accidental that Jordan Spieth wants sports fandom to spell backmost to the mode it utilized to be.

Ahead of the John Deere Classic astatine TPC Deere Run successful Illinois, Spieth was asked if helium felt play crowds were getting rowdier successful the aftermath of Wyndham Clark's attraction astatine the U.S. Open, and Spieth blamed a batch of it connected gambling.

"I bash deliberation that betting successful play is thing that's going to person to beryllium tackled present soon," Spieth said, unprovoked.

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Jordan Spieth lines up a putt connected the tenth greenish during the archetypal circular of the WM Phoenix Open astatine TPC Scottsdale successful Scottsdale, Ariz., connected Feb. 5, 2026. (Justin Edmonds/Getty Images)

"I don't cognize however overmuch of, say, the Wyndham script was the information that it was enticing to stake the tract versus Wyndham connected Sunday successful a legalized betting state, and you could person had radical retired determination that are essentially, you know, person $100 to $10,000, depending connected who it is, connected the tract versus idiosyncratic else.

"In play it's tricky due to the fact that you could really interaction the result if you wanted to. It whitethorn not past precise long, but you could interaction a changeable if you wanted to. I don't cognize of different athletics that you could interaction arsenic a instrumentality similar you tin golf. So I don't cognize however overmuch that's having to bash with it, if it's antithetic than it utilized to be."

Jordan Spieth of the United States walks disconnected of the 3rd spread tee during the 2nd circular of the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday astatine Muirfield Village Golf Club connected June 5, 2026 successful Dublin, OH. (Photo by Ian Johnson/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) ((Photo by Ian Johnson/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images))

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Spieth said that instrumentality vitriol is not "a brainsick caller thing," but astir of it present "has to bash with betting, and that is successful the past 5 years."

It should beryllium known that Spieth was erstwhile an ambassador for FanDuel.

Clark's jeers came astatine Shinnecock Hills successful the Hamptons, astir 60 miles distant from Bethpage Black, wherever fans became the taxable of contention during the Ryder Cup. It prompted Golf Channel's Eamon Lynch to telephone Long Island fans a "stain" connected play who did not merit different large play lawsuit successful their area.

Jordan Spieth tees disconnected connected the 4th spread during the 2nd circular of the Genesis Invitational astatine Riviera Country Club successful the Pacific Palisades country of Los Angeles connected Feb. 16, 2024. (Ryan Kang/AP)

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Sports gambling has been legalized successful 39 states since 2018 — lone Nevada had allowed it prior. Thirty-two of those states, including Illinois, let online betting.

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