Augusta National giveth but it also taketh away. Just ask Jordan Spieth, the 2015 champion, whose reputation as a Masters specialist took a few huge blows on Friday when he recorded a nine at the 15th on his way to a 79.
This is not the first time that Spieth – who has recorded four top-five finishes at the season’s first major since becoming its second youngest winner nine years ago – has come a cropper on the par-five, which is usually considered a birdie hole. In 2017, he also took a quadruple-bogey on the 550-yarder and this reprise has seen him make a bit of Masters history.
Justin Ray, the arch statistician from the Twenty First Group, reported that he is the only player in the last 20 years to post multiple scores of nine or worse on a hole at Augusta. The graphic charting of his nonagonal woe is some journey.
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