KAPALUA, Hawaii — The view from the top looks as spectacular as ever for Jordan Spieth.

He was standing in the 18th fairway Sunday at Kapalua, his victory in the Hyundai Tournament of Champions easily secured, when his thoughts were interrupted by a comment from caddie Michael Greller: “Way to make a statement.”

The statement was nearly as big as his eight-shot victory.

Coming off a year that Spieth knows will be tough to match — the Masters, U.S. Open, five wins, the FedEx Cup — the 22-year-old Texan backed up his sage comment at the start of the week that 2016 wasn’t about an encore because that would mean the show was over.

It’s not.

Spieth crushed the winners-only field by closing with a 6-under 67 to become only the second player in PGA Tour history to finish a 72-hole tournament at 30-under par or lower. An 8-foot birdie on the final hole put him at 30-under 262, one short of the record Ernie Els set at Kapalua in 2003.

“I thought that was cool,” Spieth said about his caddie’s comment. “It’s not what I’m going for. It’s not why I do what I do. I don’t do it to talk back to any people that believe it’s not possible or `He got a lucky year’ or something.”

And then he paused with a smile and added, “But I still think it’s going to be very difficult to have a year like last year.”

Spieth won his seventh title in his 77th start as a pro.