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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – Jordan Spieth threw a club on Saturday in frustration but to hear him tell it, it was a non-throw.
“I didn't mean to. I meant to hold on to it,” said Spieth who shot 73 in the third round. “That's why it went so low and into the ground, and I feel bad I tried to step on the turf and it wasn't a good move.”
Spieth was 4 under for the week standing in the fairway at the par-5 16th at the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass when the wind started to whip as he waited to go for the green in two from 238 yards.
“I was just gonna line up at the pin and then as we were waiting it started coming in at 30 and it never stopped and I didn't have enough club so I'm like, all right I'm gonna trap draw it and I hit it off the heel,” said Spieth, who made a double bogey on the hole. “It's like just a perfect series of events that just frustrates you so much. and you make the one mistake you can't and then I turn it to seven. … It was just a series of unfortunate events right in that little spell there and everyone's gonna have that somewhere around this golf course and those that get away with it are gonna be a lot happier.”
He added: “I just can't make the mistake on 16,” he said. “I just necked it and if I do make par at that hole 4 under is probably the top 20 by the end of the day; instead, I'll finish at 2, so, I've had a couple swings that were a couple shots this week and the guys who are at the top, don’t make those.”
Spieth noted that even when his game has been firing on all cylinders, he’s had his share of troubles at the Pete Dye layout. He has just one top-10 finish during his tourney debut in 2014 and five missed cuts in 10 previous appearances. Spieth was sidelined from August when he had surgery on his left wrist to repair a ruptured tendon sheath until the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in late January.
He finished T-69 in his debut, followed with a T-4 at the WM Phoenix Open, missed the cut at the Genesis Invitational at Torrey Pines, where he has an equally spotty career mark, and a T-9 in his debut at the Cognizant Classic. He entered the week at No. 58 in the FedEx Cup and said he’d feel better if he could climb into the top 25 or 30 of the season-long point standings.
“I think you play better when feel like you have house money, so for me, that's FedEx Cup related,” he said. “It makes you feel like you don't have to add events and I’ve got a stretch of 10 out of 12 here, which is a lot of events. but at the end of that, there's not that many before the season’s over.”
Spieth is signed up for the Valspar and likely will play the Texas Swing before the Masters, where he is a past champion in 2015 and often among the contenders. (He did miss the cut last year.)
Taking a big picture approach of trying to give himself grace on his return from injury is easier said than done for Spieth, who showed uncharacteristic frustration on Saturday.
“It was easier to be big picture the first few weeks back,” he said. “You play well and your expectations grow a little bit.”
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Jordan Spieth threw a club in frustration at the 16th hole on Saturday
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“I didn't mean to. I meant to hold on to it,” said Spieth who shot 73 in the third round. “That's why it went so low and into the ground, and I feel bad I tried to step on the turf and it wasn't a good move.”
Spieth was 4 under for the week standing in the fairway at the par-5 16th at the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass when the wind started to whip as he waited to go for the green in two from 238 yards.
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“I was just gonna line up at the pin and then as we were waiting it started coming in at 30 and it never stopped and I didn't have enough club so I'm like, all right I'm gonna trap draw it and I hit it off the heel,” said Spieth, who made a double bogey on the hole. “It's like just a perfect series of events that just frustrates you so much. and you make the one mistake you can't and then I turn it to seven. … It was just a series of unfortunate events right in that little spell there and everyone's gonna have that somewhere around this golf course and those that get away with it are gonna be a lot happier.”
He added: “I just can't make the mistake on 16,” he said. “I just necked it and if I do make par at that hole 4 under is probably the top 20 by the end of the day; instead, I'll finish at 2, so, I've had a couple swings that were a couple shots this week and the guys who are at the top, don’t make those.”
Spieth noted that even when his game has been firing on all cylinders, he’s had his share of troubles at the Pete Dye layout. He has just one top-10 finish during his tourney debut in 2014 and five missed cuts in 10 previous appearances. Spieth was sidelined from August when he had surgery on his left wrist to repair a ruptured tendon sheath until the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in late January.
He finished T-69 in his debut, followed with a T-4 at the WM Phoenix Open, missed the cut at the Genesis Invitational at Torrey Pines, where he has an equally spotty career mark, and a T-9 in his debut at the Cognizant Classic. He entered the week at No. 58 in the FedEx Cup and said he’d feel better if he could climb into the top 25 or 30 of the season-long point standings.
“I think you play better when feel like you have house money, so for me, that's FedEx Cup related,” he said. “It makes you feel like you don't have to add events and I’ve got a stretch of 10 out of 12 here, which is a lot of events. but at the end of that, there's not that many before the season’s over.”
Spieth is signed up for the Valspar and likely will play the Texas Swing before the Masters, where he is a past champion in 2015 and often among the contenders. (He did miss the cut last year.)
Taking a big picture approach of trying to give himself grace on his return from injury is easier said than done for Spieth, who showed uncharacteristic frustration on Saturday.
“It was easier to be big picture the first few weeks back,” he said. “You play well and your expectations grow a little bit.”
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Jordan Spieth threw a club in frustration at the 16th hole on Saturday
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