Jordan Spieth misses decrease, wayward pressure off patron costs $20 at Byron Nelson
Jordan Spieth has overlooked his fourth decrease of the season on the CJ Cup Byron Nelson—the match all the map through which he made his PGA Tour debut as a 16-300 and sixty five days-celebrated in 2010.
He had of enterprise to originate the weekend on the tip of his 2nd spherical, as he arrived on the par-4 16th gap one shot off the decrease-line at 5-below par for the match.
But he rifled his tee-shot map lawful on this 495-yard par-4. After which, one way or the other, his ball caromed attend into the center of the fairway.
His pressure bounced off a patron’s elbow, environment himself up for a substantial more uncomplicated 2nd shot into this difficult gap.
But Spieth couldn’t take merit of the fortuitous jump. He pulled his components to the left facet of the green and three-putted from there, losing all the vogue down to 4-below and two off the decrease line.
A shot became once no longer the supreme thing Spieth misplaced on the 16th gap on Friday, on the opposite hand. He additionally misplaced $20, handing the miserable fan a $20 bill for his sick-advised pressure. Spieth additionally gifted him a signed golf ball.
That fan presumably went to take up a beverage, courtesy of Spieth.
Yet, Spieth couldn’t garner any momentum over his final two holes at TPC Craig Ranch, finishing par-par to shoot a 1-below 70 on day two. He did no longer have faith his handiest stuff this week and could perchance silent look to rebound at subsequent week’s Wells Fargo Championship—a Signature Occasion at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, North Carolina.
After that, it’s on to the PGA Championship, the place aside Spieth will look to total the profession Huge Slam. Hopefully, he will no longer slam one other pressure into one other fan within the arrival weeks.
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