Most don't come back from that. He's given himself a chance.Really? Seemed like he turned into a mental gidget after 10-11 that resulted in an all-time mental disaster an hour ago.
Most don't come back from that. He's given himself a chance.Really? Seemed like he turned into a mental gidget after 10-11 that resulted in an all-time mental disaster an hour ago.
Really? I love themWhy is CBS using those ground level views for the putts? They suck.
And he misses. Bleh.
Most don't come back from that. He's given himself a chance.
It is just harder to tell if the putt is off line with that view. Decreases the drama, for me.Really? I love them
Haha, "3 putt this and you might as well stay in America"Willett's brother's twitter is pretty good
Belichick approves.Jordan Spieth made 7 birdies and lost by 2. Shocking.
Now he gets testy with the camera guys.
A tradition unlike any other.Why make him give this interview here? He's understandably holding back tears.
He's a UT fan so he should be used to holding back tears.Why make him give this interview here? He's understandably holding back tears.
:/He's a UT fan so he should be used to holding back tears.
Worst part of all of it. Incredibly awkward. US Open man on fire coming up.and now he has to give him the jacket
Twice. Outside too.and now he has to give him the jacket
Good stuff, thanks for sharing. Who do you write for?Some random facts and figures I dug up in preparing the column I've written about the tournament today, for anyone who might be interested:
- The last defending champion to be in one of the final two groups on Sunday the following year but failed to win: Bernhard Langer in 1986. (Langer was of course in the penultimate group this year as well as in 1986.)
- The last time a narrowly defeated runner-up had to put the green jacket on the winner (as the defending champion): Arnold Palmer, who needed a par at the 72nd hole to win the 1961 Masters but double-bogeyed it to gift Gary Player the victory.
- The longest putt Jordan Spieth made all week was only 21 feet long; despite that, his total length of putts holed was 406 feet, including 35 putts of five feet or more and 12 of 10 feet or more. To put that in perspective, Danny Willett made 292 feet of putts, including 21 putts of five feet or more and seven of 10 feet or more. To put that in further perspective, Spieth's average holed putt (roughly 5'7") was about a foot longer than the best season-long averages on tour last year (Villegas, Walker, Blair and Henley each averaged 4'7" per holed putt), even though he made no bombs to artificially inflate his total. Given that these are Masters greens we're talking about - and not just normal Masters greens, but wind-dried and wind-buffeted Masters greens - I think Spieth even in defeat had one of the better putting tournaments I can remember.
- I think Spieth's collapse may be more due to mental and physical fatigue than anything else - he's had only two weeks off since he played his first mainland US tournament at Pebble Beach in February, and in the three months from November to January he played tournaments in China, Australia, the Bahamas, Hawaii, Abu Dhabi and Singapore (in that order). The kid needs a break.
That is all awesome but the info about the putts is especially great.Some random facts and figures I dug up in preparing the column I've written about the tournament today, for anyone who might be interested:
- The last defending champion to be in one of the final two groups on Sunday the following year but failed to win: Bernhard Langer in 1986. (Langer was of course in the penultimate group this year as well as in 1986.)
- The last time a narrowly defeated runner-up had to put the green jacket on the winner (as the defending champion): Arnold Palmer, who needed a par at the 72nd hole to win the 1961 Masters but double-bogeyed it to gift Gary Player the victory.
- The longest putt Jordan Spieth made all week was only 21 feet long; despite that, his total length of putts holed was 406 feet, including 35 putts of five feet or more and 12 of 10 feet or more. To put that in perspective, Danny Willett made 292 feet of putts, including 21 putts of five feet or more and seven of 10 feet or more. To put that in further perspective, Spieth's average holed putt (roughly 5'7") was about a foot longer than the best season-long averages on tour last year (Villegas, Walker, Blair and Henley each averaged 4'7" per holed putt), even though he made no bombs to artificially inflate his total. Given that these are Masters greens we're talking about - and not just normal Masters greens, but wind-dried and wind-buffeted Masters greens - I think Spieth even in defeat had one of the better putting tournaments I can remember.
- I think Spieth's collapse may be more due to mental and physical fatigue than anything else - he's had only two weeks off since he played his first mainland US tournament at Pebble Beach in February, and in the three months from November to January he played tournaments in China, Australia, the Bahamas, Hawaii, Abu Dhabi and Singapore (in that order). The kid needs a break.
You just reminded me of my younger days at Aberdeen Uni. I used to drive down every second week to play St Andrews. It was dirt cheap with a student discount. Suffice to say, all my best rounds were played without a breath of wind..which as you will know, is pretty rare. Unfortunately, the day that my crotch rocket and I decided to take a detour off the road and two bad shoulders later put pay to my golfing days. However, little did I know I would be involved in the golfing industry 2 decades on...it's funny how life works.Thanks for the kind words. To answer LW's question, I write for a small magazine called The American which targets expats living in the UK; I had previously interned for Golf Digest and wrote a moderately successful golfing memoir about the year I spent as a student at the University of St. Andrews, and having mostly moved on from golf writing I still enjoy rolling my sleeves up every month or two to write about professional golf and/or my own golfing experiences. Because the magazine only comes out 6-12 times a year, I try to get more analytical and bring something to the table that most newspaper or weekly magazine columnists can't (or don't), insofar as I can never be truly timely.
If you're interested, my archive of columns - including the piece I've just finished today - can be accessed via my writing website. If you like Scottish golf, you may particularly enjoy my pieces on my six-year-old son's first golf tournament (link), the joys of "open" tournaments anyone can enter in Scotland (link, including a list of my favorite opens), and my experiences working as a spotter for ESPN at the 2013 Open Championship at Muirfield (link).