Jordan Spieth hopes to have as long and successful a career on the links as his mentor, Tom Brady, has had on the gridiron. But the reigning British Open champion and winner of two other major titles is not quite willing to go all in on QB12’s stringent, plant-based eating habits.
Dell Technologies Championship 2017: Jordan Spieth’s not quite ready to give up steak and potatoes for Tom Brady’s diet
Jordan Spieth will have what Tom Brady’s eating — but not just yet.
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Not yet, anyway.
“I’ve tried some of his stuff. I know it’s good for me. I’m not quite dialed in on the eating as he is,” Spieth told reporters on Thursday ahead of Friday’s start to the Dell Technologies Championship at TPC Boston in Norton, Mass. — just down the road from Brady and his New England Patriots home field in Foxboro.
It would be difficult for anyone to be as rigid with what he or she ingests as Brady is. In addition to his mostly vegetable, no-carb, no-sugar, no-caffeine, no-tomato (and all other nightshades), no-dairy, no-fungus diet that features such delicacies as avocado ice cream that the 40-year-old five-time Super Bowl champion chows down on at home, Brady sticks to his regimen even during golf trips with his buddies.
Like when he tees it up with Spieth at the home of the Masters:
While the other guys in his foursome topped off their round on the iconic track with “some wine and steak and potatoes,” as Spieth recounted, Brady tucked into the anti-inflammatory foodstuffs he had sent to Georgia.
“He’s extremely passionate about this,” said Spieth, who planned to take in Thursday night’s fourth and final preseason game at Gillette Stadium on the eve of his 9:15 a.m. ET tee time with Dustin Johnson and Justin Thomas.
[Brady] had all this stuff at Augusta when all of us were just, you know, having some wine.
“He had all this stuff at Augusta when all of us were just, you know, having some wine — on a fun round, having some wine and steak and potatoes,” Spieth added, “and he’s, you know, he shipped all of his stuff into there to have it as snacks and protein powder and all this stuff.”
Spieth, who has gotten close to the quarterback (who contends he will play until well into his 40s) after they began working with Under Armour a few years ago, believes he will eventually see the light and convert to the Tom Brady Way of Eating.
“I don’t think he was [into his strict diet] when he was my age, either,” said Spieth, who’s 24. “It’s obviously elongating his career and doing well for him, so I’ll do whatever he’s doing.”
As for having the Pats superstar cheering him on, Spieth said Brady’s encouragement invigorated his play:
“He’s a tremendous guy to have in your corner,” Spieth said. “When he’s rooting for you, you feel like you just have — I keep using the word ‘energy,’ but you really do feel like you have something else when you get guys like him on your side.”
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