It wouldn’t be the John Deere Classic without Jordan Spieth doing Jordan Spieth things. Sometimes, those things are magical—as they were in 2013 and 2015 when Spieth won the event twice in the span of three years …
And sometimes those things are, well, trash. That’s not meant as an insult, either. We mean literal trash.
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That was the scene at TPC Deere Run on Thursday morning when an errant tee shot on No. 15 wriggled its way under a pair of highly metaphorical trash cans. After Spieth located his ball and got relief from the receptacles, he miraculously stuck his approach to three feet, tapping in for birdie. A stone-cold classic of the Jordan Spieth genre.
At the time of writing, Spieth is even-par through nine holes following three birdies, a bogey and a double. In other words, standard Jordan Spieth stuff as the three-time major winner gears up for a return to Royal Birkdale, the site of perhaps his most triumphant moment of chaos. But as all Spieth fans will tell you, when it comes to golf’s master of disaster, the only thing to expect is the unexpected.
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