{"id":776568,"date":"2026-07-02T23:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T23:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/776568\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T23:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T23:57:16","slug":"watch-jordan-spieth-gets-up-and-down-for-birdie-from-trash-can-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/776568\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Jordan Spieth gets up and down for birdie from trash can \u2013 literally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Spieth can get up and down from a trash can.<\/p>\n<p>No, literally, he can \u2013 and make that two trash cans.<\/p>\n<p>Spieth birdied the par-4 15th hole Thursday at TPC Deere Run, his sixth hole of his first round at the John Deere Classic, despite driving his ball underneath a pair of trash cans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo I get to do anything about that?\u201d Spieth asked a rules official after lifting the cardboard receptacle, which sat next to a plastic recycling bin, to reveal his ball in the rough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, you have to play it,\u201d the official responded.<\/p>\n<p>Spieth then hit his second shot 185 yards to 3 feet and made birdie, one of three in his first six holes.<\/p>\n<p>A double bogey at the par-4 18th \u2014 his ninth \u2014 slowed his momentum. He made three birdies and two bogeys on his inward half for a 1-under 70, seven off the early lead.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"Link\" aria-label=\"Lucas Glover shares John Deere Classic lead after bogey-free opening round\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/pga-tour\/news\/lucas-glover-2026-john-deere-classic-round-1-results-leaderboard-zac-blair\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"John Deere Classic 2026 - Round One\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783036636_312_.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What a difference a week makes, right? Lucas Glover opened up last week\u2019s Travelers Championship with a 75 that had him dead last after 18 holes. He went in as the clubhouse leader at TPC Deere Run Thursday after carding an 8-under 63.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jordan Spieth can get up and down from a trash can. No, literally, he can \u2013 and make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-776568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}