PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – Jordan Spieth’s Sunday was better than most, and his Thursday wasn’t too shabby either.
Spieth missed the cut at the WM Phoenix Open on Friday and so flew in for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am early. On Sunday, he was first off the tee at Pebble Beach alongside his brother, Steven, and then headed over to Cypress Point, No. 1 on Golfweek’s Best Classic Courses list, for one of the better doubleheaders that one can possibly experience in golf.
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“Just had a fun day,” Spieth said during his post-round press conference on Thursday. “Played a loop, we didn’t play them all.”
Word had leaked out that Spieth had more than fun at Cypress – he made a hole-in-one at the par-3 15th, one of the most special holes in golf.
Jordan Spieth hits his bunker shot on the 11th hole during the first round of the 12026 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am at Spyglass Hill Golf Course.
“Yeah, ace,” he finally admitted, breaking into a wide smile. “Probably one of my top five holes in the world if you asked me where I’d want to make one on.”
Spieth’s made enough aces that he’s lost count for sure – 12 or 13 he figured – and said the last one was at the 199-yard, par-3 16th hole at TPC San Antonio during the opening round of the 2024 Valero Texas Open.
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On a sunny, warm Thursday with a barely a breath of wind, he shot 6-under 66 at Spyglass Hills Golf Club, a bogey-free that he called a testament to his short game. It was a good bounce back after the disappointment of a sloppy second round at TPC Scottsdale’s Stadium Course, a course that often has been a springboard to a quick start to his season.
“I thought let’s just forget about it and use this as our pseudo-Phoenix and try to get dialed in,” he said. “I had a fluke kind of crappy day, woke up on the wrong side of the best kind of day last Friday.”
The highlight of Spieth’s opening round was another hole out for eagle – only this was on the par-4 18th as he flighted a gap wedge from 116 yards for a deuce.
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“I took a little off it to control the spin and it landed right a bit and had draw spin,” he said. “It was a real bonus.”
This is a week Spieth always circles on the calendar. He has been an AT&T ambassador since 2014, sports the logo on his golf bag, received his first Tour exemption as a pro here in 2013 and won the tournament in 2017, becoming the youngest champion at age 23. All told, he has six top 10 finishes in the event, the second most of players in the field this week behind only Jason Day with nine, and tied for second most of any event in his Tour career.
Spieth entered the week with 151 birdies at AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am since 2017 the most of any player during that time span. Of his fast start, he said, “Spyglass 6 under may be the best I ever shot around here so very pleased.”
Now, he has three straight rounds at Pebble, where he’s gained an average of +0.41 strokes on Approach to the Green at Pebble Beach Golf Links, tied for his fifth highest average SG: Approach the Green at a course in his career.
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