Jordan Spieth said he could not wait for this year’s Masters to be over so people would stop about his double dunk on No. 12 that cost him the 2016 green jacket.
Masters 2017: Jordan Spieth. In the water on 12 on Sunday. Again.
Jordan Spieth gets wet on No. 12 at Augusta. Really.
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Welp.
“No matter what happens at this year’s Masters, whether I can grab the jacket back or I miss the cut or I finish 30th, it will be nice having this Masters go by,” Spieth said last month. “The Masters lives on for a year. It brings a non-golf audience into golf. And it will be nice once this year’s finished, from my point of view, to be brutally honest with you.”
The 12th, a treacherous 155-yarder, is the shortest hole at Augusta National, but the Golden Bell — as the lovely spot is called — plays like a monster. The wind gusts alone have wreaked havoc with the scores of some of the best ever to play the game.
By all accounts, there were no killer winds on a perfect, sun-splashed day at Augusta, but that will be little comfort to Spieth, who chunked his way to a tourney-ending quadruple bogey-7 in last year’s final round. Hey, at least he shaved two strokes off his final-round score this time around.
After a double-bogey on 11, Spieth was 1-under for the tournament at the time of his latest splashdown. Another double on No. 12 left him at 1-over for the week.
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