Jordan Spieth’s Mini Masters Hangover Officially Ends with Near Miss at Colonial

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Published: May 25, 2015

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Let’s face it, folks. As career skids go, a guy could do a lot worse.

Since reaching the list of major champions with a wire-to-wire masterpiece at the Masters, 21-year-old wunderkind Jordan Spieth had proceeded to finish tied for 11th at the RBC Heritage and tied for 17th at the WGC-Cadillac Match Play before missing the cut at The Players Championship two weekends ago.

And he collected precisely $215,624 for his troubles along the way.

Still, because he entered this week’s Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial having not won in (gasp!) 39 days, the hyperbolic savior of post-Tiger golf in the Americas has spent much of the recent time taking questions and making headlines regarding the lingering impact of a would-be Augusta “hangover.”

He verbally dismissed the absurd chatter along the way, claiming the winless aftermath has been the result of a whirlwind month with little time to work on fundamentals—or, for that matter, sleeping in his own bed. But he was savvy enough to know it would take solid rounds, not pithy replies, to quiet the din.



Well, given his performance over four days and 72 holes in north central Texas, he’s probably at least bought himself some extra time before the “Jordan is finished” columns start to get queued up.

Though the drought will extend for at least another week, thanks to his three-way tie for second at 11 under par 269—one shot behind clutch-putting winner Chris Kirk—a barely grizzled Spieth flashed enough of a presumably untapped potential to push the CBS broadcast crew’s needles to “gush.”

He was in a four-way tie for the lead after a Brandt Snedeker bogey at the par-three 13th, but he fell out after his own three-putt bogey two groups ahead at No. 16. A par at the 17th put him two shots out as Kirk ascended a shifting leaderboard, before a 12-foot birdie on t...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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