Jordan Spieth Breaks Masters Record
HARLOW: All right. If you like golf, you're paying very close attention to what' happening right now in Augusta, Georgia. The third round of the Masters is underway. The world's top golfers are all chasing an unlikely name at the top of the leaderboard, a 21-year- old American Jordan Spieth. CNN sports anchor Don Riddell joins me now from Augusta. What do you think? Is it too soon to call this guy the next big thing?</s>DON RIDDELL, CNN SPORTS: Maybe a little soon, but everything he's done over the last two days certainly would lead you to believe he's got an incredibly bright future. He's been touted probably for some time as a man with a big future ahead of him in golf. He's already won several times. He was actually contending here 12 months ago. He ended up finishing second in what was his first attempt at the Masters when he was just 20 years old. His score over the first two holes has already been -- first two rounds has already been historic. I'd say he's a little more cautious today, but he remains at 14 under for the tournament. He is leading by 4. But there is a rather hungry pack chasing him down of some very big names behind him.</s>HARLOW: So, let's talk about that pack. I mean, you were telling me Tiger's playing well, Mickelson's playing well. Who do you think his biggest challenger is right now?</s>RIDDELL: Well, it's hard to say who his biggest challenger is. Of course, Tiger Woods has had his problems recently. He had to take nine weeks off so he could really kind of fall in love with the game again and rehabilitate himself from the mental and physical problems he'd had. But he is playing phenomenally well. Tiger Woods currently at 7 under and starting to go on a bit of a run. He's got the patrons and the crowd at Augusta really roaring for him. And you can see he's really pumped up and enjoying it too. Right now as we speak, Phil Mickelson is his closest challenger. Of course, Lefty has won Augusta three times already. He's had a pretty horrible last 15 or 16 months. But just in the last couple of weeks, he started producing some good form. And he usually turns it on at Augusta and he seems to be doing so right now. It's too early to tell how it's going to play out, but it's certainly very interesting. And Spieth's going to have his work cut out for sure.</s>HARLOW: Very exciting. Before I let you go, Don, tell me a little bit about Spieth. I mean, what do we know about this 21-year-old who has just become a phenom?</s>RIDDELL: Well, he was a superb amateur and a superb college player. He's from Texas. He's from Dallas. And Texas has produced more green jacket winners than any other state in this country. Ben Crenshaw was his idol. And he's just incredibly composed. I mean, that's the one thing that people who meet him as I have are instantly struck by, it's just how mature he seems to be, how together he is. He seems to wear the pressure very, very well. And he's certainly well-placed to do well here.</s>HARLOW: Well, that is an important trait to wear pressure well in the game of golf. Thanks -- especially at the Masters. Thanks so much, Don. Appreciate it. And have fun out there. We're going to take a quick break. Coming up next, we're going to monitor what we're waiting for, which is that live news conference with President Barack Obama happening in panama very shortly. This follows his historic meeting with Raul Castro of Cuba. The president will be taking reporter questions. We'll have that as soon as it happens. Stay with us.