On Friday, Jordan Spieth pulled off some serious sorcery with an incredible chip shot at Whistling Straits. On Saturday, Whistling Straits pulled off some serious sorcery on Spieth with one of the most brutal lip-outs you’ll ever see in golf.
Unfortunately, it will go down as a meaningless shot, but that doesn’t make what Jordan Spieth did at Whistling Straits’ par-3 17th on Friday in the opening session of the Ryder Cup any less heroic.
Stricker acknowledged that the uncertainty over Reed’s health and the resulting lack of tournament play became too much of a liability to pick him for the American team.
This US Open is far more than Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau and Phil Mickelson. Last time we checked, there are 153 other players who will tee it up at Torrey Pines.
What started as an exercise to improve the functionality of the layout by installing a sub-air system and ridding the fairways and greens of Poa annua became a revisionist mission.
Despite the silver medal, Jordan Spieth will be the headliner from Colonial. But give it up to Jason Kokrak. He battled Spieth on Spieth’s playground in front of Spieth’s crowd and came out with the victory.
Spieth said he began to feel symptoms in late April – though he did not lose his sense of taste or smell – and that three separate tests returned a positive result.
Australian Golf Digest
