Spieth suffers a new horror
JORDAN SPIETH has moved on... a different Augusta hole will haunt his nightmares this year.
The meltdown that befell him last year when his Masters unravelled in calamitous fashion at the short 12th can now be officially consigned to history.
However, fresh horrors were still lurking for Spieth, who shot a disastrous quadruple-bogey nine at the 15th, usually the easiest hole on the course, to see his hopes take a nosedive.
A rock-solid par on 12, as dry as a Dales stone wall, at the 150-yard hole yesterday should have represented closure for the young American after the turmoil of 12 months ago.
Spieth is a tough cookie but as he arrived at the scene of last year’s crime, he would not have been human if the thoughts of the double splashdown that opened the door for Danny Willett had not flitted through his head.
The first-round pin position was more central but the water was still just as wet, the punishment for finding it just as punitive.
The wind was swirling dangerously as he waited for a full, agonising five minutes while the group ahead finished with Golden Bell.
The last time Spieth had stood on the 10th tee in competitive play, he was leading the Masters by five shots with a nine iron in his hands.
From there his lead – and his tournament – unravelled. He put two balls in the water and one in the sand on the way to a quadruple-bogey seven.
“Buddy, it seems like we’re collapsing,” Spieth said to his caddie Michael Greller at the 13th tee. He was. But wounds, however deep, can heal and