Spieth\u2019s putting has let him down badly<\/a> recently, and he will need to improve in that department this week, if he is to reign supreme at Muirfield Village.<\/p>\nJordan Spieth shares what he \u2018hates\u2019 about golf after shooting 71 at The Memorial<\/p>\n
One of the three-time major champion\u2019s two birdies on Thursday came on the sixth hole, after he rolled in a 62-foot putt.<\/p>\n
Spieth addressed the media after his opening round in Dublin, Ohio, on Thursday, and commented on how important that putt was.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s great just to get into red on this golf course before anything else,\u201c he admitted.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause then you don\u2019t feel like you\u2019ve \u2014 you don\u2019t feel, like on 7, I didn\u2019t feel like I needed to try to hit it further on the third shot, I didn\u2019t have to try to get back to the pin.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt shouldn\u2019t matter, but when we\u2019re used to shooting under par when we play, it\u2019s really nice when you actually get that one, and it actually kind of helps you stay patient from there.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hate when the golf course is beating me, so I always want to be ahead of it. And obviously out here that\u2019s different than the last tournament I played, but it\u2019s just kind of a mentality thing.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I felt like I just, I had a very good game plan and stuck to it today. But that being a bonus one makes you think, Okay, if I was trying to shoot a couple under maybe that\u2019s 3- now, because you weren\u2019t necessarily expecting to get that one.\u201c<\/p>\n
Jordan Spieth explains in detail what went into his 62-foot holed putt<\/p>\n
Spieth responded when asked by reporters to describe the mammoth putt that he holed on the sixth green at Muirfield Village on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, I hit the putt a couple times yesterday,\u201c the American said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re in trouble off the tee there, it is way safer to go at the right half of that green. So it\u2019s a place where even in the bunker \u2014 you can reach the green. It\u2019s still easier if you can get it either in the greenside bunker or on the green than hitting a full wedge in on the third.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did hit the putt a couple times, and I hit it poorly, like, twice yesterday from a little different place but pretty close. I was just trying to get the right speed.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn those putts, I walk up and try to find where the fall line is on top and, you know, see a pitch mark or something where my ball needs to essentially roll around.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I hit the putt kind of around where I wanted to, and I thought it was maybe a foot or so short overall, and as it kept going down I\u2019m, like, it might get there. It\u2019s at the hole. And then it fell off the side of the lip, which was nice.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had decent chances on the first five holes and felt like I hit pretty good putts that just missed. And then, of course, it\u2019s golf right there, right? So you stay patient, you get rewarded.\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jordan Spieth opened his account at The Memorial Tournament with a round of one-under par 71. Spieth is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,15817,343008,346390,85],"class_list":["post-717437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-jordan-spieth","tag-memorial-tournament","tag-muirfield-village","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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