Jordan Spieth Comments on Jason Day's Lead in World Golf Ranking

World No. 2 golfer Jordan Spieth has seen his former title of No. 1 bestowed upon Jason Day after the Australian won seven of the past 17 tournaments, including a four-stroke win at The Players Championship on Sunday.   

That's not sitting well with Spieth, who is now almost 2.5 points behind Day in the Official World Golf Ranking. He spoke with PA Sport on Wednesday, via ESPN.com: "What he's doing right now I think I can win the next two events and I'm still not going to surpass him in the world rankings. He's separated himself and that bothers me and it motivates me."

Spieth hasn't recorded a victory on the PGA Tour since January and missed two cuts since then, including at the Players. It was his first event since his meltdown on No. 12 at the Masters:

Since Spieth's last win on tour, which came at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions, Day has won the Arnold Palmer Invitational and the WGC-Dell Match Play before his most recent triumph at TPC Sawgrass. 

He's carried over his solid play well from last season, where he was the hottest golfer on the planet from July on with four wins in his final seven events, including wins at the PGA Championship and BMW Championship. 

Day's play over the past 10 months has been fueling Spieth, per PA Sport:

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Going back to Chicago [where Day won the BMW Championship] to Sunday of the PGA to last week, watching the commitment that he had, the focus and then the commitment in each swing that this ball is going where I'm looking and this putt is going in, just stalking it.

I know that feeling and I'm looking to get that back and definitely there's some motivation there. He's playing his game. He believes his game is better than anybody else's and he's on his game and so it is better than everyone else's.

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Up next for the two golfers is the AT&T Byron Nelson from TPC Four Seasons Resort in Irving, Texas, which begins Friday. It's a tournament Spieth has had some trouble with, not cracking the top 25 on the leaderboard since he was an amateur in 2010. 

If he wants this discomfort of seeing Day pulling ahead of him in the world ranking to go away quickly, then Spieth will have to turn his Byron Nelson trend around. 

Stats courtesy of PGATour.com.