Spieth began his second round with back-to-back bogeys but managed to steady himself, picking up four birdies and one more bogey to post a 71.<\/p>\n
After his round, Spieth spoke to reporters about how he managed to keep things on track despite the tough start.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought I had a chance to go off the rails after No. 2 today,\u201d Spieth admitted.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, just two horrendous breaks in a row to start. And it\u2019s a course made up of horrendous breaks. You try not to front load them on the first two holes. You know it\u2019s going to happen. But I\u2019m 2-over and outside the number for the weekend when I was looking, feeling pretty good about the way I\u2019ve been playing and stuff.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd you just can\u2019t force anything, so it\u2019s like you don\u2019t want to fall too far behind because you can\u2019t really make it up very easily if you have to. I thought I did a really good job of staying in there, setting a goal for where I wanted to be through \u2014 I wanted to get, you know, set like four or five-hole goals out there.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I stayed focused and said, forget about everything else except for the next hole and how to play the next three 1-under. Then I accomplished my goal. I wanted to get \u2014 at one point it was to try to get to three by 18 fairway. And I got three and I was in 18 fairway. And I hit a terrible putt or I could have stolen another one.\u201c<\/p>\n
Jordan Spieth is playing better than he is scoring at Bay Hill<\/p>\n
Spieth went on to say that he feels his play hasn\u2019t been fully reflected in his scores so far this week.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll in all, I feel like I\u2019m playing better than I\u2019m scoring here,\u201d Spieth insisted.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of that is a reflection on leaving putts short. Some of that is like I had a couple pretty bad plug lies that were a yard from being a good look for birdie, and I couldn\u2019t even get the bunker shot where the ball would have gone had it flown another yard.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat stuff happens out here probably more than anywhere else on a pretty stressful course. And I was happy to play the last 16 holes 3-under.<\/p>\n
He is ranked 15th in strokes gained approach this week, while he ranked outside the top 37 in all of the other key statistical categories.<\/p>\n
So while he feels like he\u2019s playing well, the stats say otherwise. At one-under-par heading into the weekend, perhaps Jordan Spieth is exactly where he should be after two rounds at Bay Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spieth began his second round with back-to-back bogeys but managed to steady himself, picking up four birdies and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-462664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}