The weekend at Augusta is setting up to be a historic one at the National. Not for the duel that we all anticipated or for the traditional drama on the back nine on Sunday, but instead for what could be a record-breaking coronation of the next American superstar in golf.

Jordan Spieth sits 14-under par, and has set a new all-time 36-hole scoring record at the Masters, breaking Raymond Floyd’s 13-under par total from 1976. He has his eye’s set on his first major title and the tournament scoring record of 18-under par.

With a win, he would become the second youngest champion in Master’s history.

Although the numbers are impressive and the history books may get re-written over the next 36 holes, it’s how he is doing it that is most impressive to me. Jordan Spieth is a throwback. In a game that has become a power game of bomb and gouge, Spieth plots his way around Augusta, laying up to his favourite number and never missing an opportunity with the flat stick to notch one more birdie on the card.

This type of golf was supposedly dead in the water; even some of the games top analysts coming into this week suggested that Spieth did not posses the power necessary to reach the top of the mountain in today’s professional game. What they all forgot was that the two most important clubs in any golfers bag is his putter and his mind, and Jordan Spieth is the best in the world right now with both.

Now, let’s not forget this is the Masters. Norman ’96, McIlroy ’11 -- majors in general can crumble leads faster than most professional golfers care to admit or acknowledge, but Spieth is different. Most 21-year olds don’t have the experience of sleeping on a 54 lead at the Masters, or know what it’s like to walk off the 7th green on Sunday with the lead at Augusta, or watch it fall apart with nine to go on Sunday, but this one does and this one is ready to take his place in major history.