Jordan Spieth Fights Open Club Face, Rain and Mist
Jordan Spieth is still looking for his go-to shot to return. His club face is still staying open. He only hit 50 percent of greens in regulation in round two. Despite all that, he shot a 4-under par 66 and is now in second place, just three back of leader Henrik Stenson at the Tour Championship.
His putting was the key. In round two he had only 23 putts, backing up his round one of 29 putts.
“I feel comfortable on Bermuda. This is exactly the stuff I grew up on,” he said. “It’s as comfortable as I feel all year. I love the greens here. I love the tough rough. I love the bunkers.”
Bermuda and zoysia roughs are notoriously difficult when trying to hit controlled shots.
"“I found today that the few times we were in the rough, that it just didn’t get through the grass as easily as it does when it’s dry,” Spieth said. “So when it’s sitting down, you just got to advance it short of the green.”"
Still he liked it.
Spieth said two par saves were important to the round.
“Five and six were great holes for me,” he said. “To get those up and down and stay at even par and then get a couple of birdies, it was huge.”
On the fifth, his tee shot was in the right rough, and from there, he hit into left rough, short of the green.
"“That third shot I hit on five is – I mean, one out of ten, maybe,” Spieth explained. “There was no other option but it wasn’t necessarily smart. And I had to have the wind blowing this branch back and forth.”"
He had to hit when the branch was being blown one direction or he had no shot.
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On the sixth, his tee shot found the bunker, and he hit out to six feet and made the putt.
The path to his good scoring, he admitted, was his mental game.
“That’s what Michael (Greller, caddie) mentioned today when we had just finished the round,” Spieth explained. Greller said it was mentally the best round Spieth had played in some time.
He had to be mentally tough, at least to shoot 66 on a difficult day.
“With the mist and the rain coming down here and there, tougher to drive the golf ball because there’s water on the face, water on the ball and it’s easy to let shots get further off line than normal,” Spieth added. “The hardest part was just around the greens in the rough. When it’s wet, it can be diabolical sometimes. The ball just sits right down to the bottom, and it’s hard to get to.”
In his opinion two or three under par each day should be enough to get him to the victory circle. He just has to stay patient with his game for two more days to see if he can capture the year’s biggest monetary prize.
Next: Meet the Man Behind Jordan Spieth: Michael Greller
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