Spieth breaks a rule, but once again, not par

I T - a season loaded with them took place in the muck at water-logged Aronimink Golf Club on Tuesday.

All through the 2018 BMW a lifetime exemption must Championship, all through play in 25. If not, they must add what by his standards has been a new tournament to their schedule. a lost season, Spieth has been Spieth did neither. stuck in the mud, mired in a run of erratic golf that nothing in his brief but impressive history foretold.

Though he earned nearly $3 million in 2018, there were no wins in majors. There were, for a commented on what would be a destiny and I just didn’t have it this week,” he said. “I was riding some momentum. But all in all my game just kind of got a little off.”

The suddenly erratic Spieth ended the tournament 47th out of 69 in greens-in-regulation, 49th in driving accuracy, and 59th in strokes gained putting.

A late birdie run salvaged an opening-round 67. But a oneover 71 on Friday — a day when there were a pair of 62s and an average score of 67 — sank him.

“That second round, you can’t shoot over par out here,” Spieth said. “That just threw me so far back.”

After a 66 on a gloomy Saturday, he was still ranked at 31. He needed a superb round to get to Atlanta and a bad one from players just inside the top 30, including Keegan Bradley, who instead shot a 64 to win the BMW.

“I knew that if I could shoot

conditions that it would make a little bit of a difference,” Spieth said. “I came out trying to go low, but I knew it was in other’s people’s [hands].”

So Spieth, who wore a bandage on a sore wrist, will be off the next two weeks then head to the Ryder Cup in Paris, where he’ll once again hope his game is reborn.

“I’m not that far off,” he said earlier. “I’m really not.”