‘You can’t talk about them here’

Augusta, ga. – Jordan Spieth has not been wild for his shape in this 89 masters.

For one, he is trying to find a driver to go after hitting his player in Pebble Beach in February. Since then, Spieth said, he has experimented with five different clubs. “I was in what I had left on the first day,” spieth said about his first round in Augusta National When he shot one over 73, “so I turned to another.”

That driver, he said, has been much more cooperative. On Friday, he shot 73 others before scoring a three-Zogj 69 in his third round on Saturday to move to one under the tour.

Despite the uncertainty of his driver, Spieth said that another part of his game that has failed him more and for a specific reason that has nothing to do with his swinging plane or attack angle.

“My iron game killed me for the last two days …” Spieth said Saturday afternoon.

But he didn’t stop here.

“… and being brutally honest with you was mostly muddy balls.”

Spieth went on: “Just just so frustrating because you can’t talk about them here. You don’t have to talk about them. The mud balls can significantly affect this tournament, especially when you get them too much in 11 and 13. They are just trucks in those two holes.”

The thing is, Spieth was more than ready to talk about his mud -covered balls. In fact, he clearly sought after to talk about them.

“They have done a better job,” Spieth said how Augusta National has prepared the course to fight the balls that accumulate mud. “There are less than normal, but I still had them today in those holes. I also had them yesterday in those holes. Something something to pay attention to the leadership groups, because you just have to play so far from trouble or lie down when you will normally go to it, only casual items, because it will not be in the wrong way, or if you are not in the way. Part in it, just what hole is.

The course is not wet, but it had to rain on Thursday night on Friday, which probably constitutes some of the accumulated spieth it has encountered. Spieth also noted that the direction of the roads that are mowed – towards Tees – means that tee balls are sensitive to “excavation” on the ground. “Many times you have it at 75 percent of your drives,” he said. “You will get them at 13 and 15 many, and it’s like, well. Well, here we go.”

Asked why some players get more muddy balls than others, Spieth said, “I think it’s just a casual type. The lower the lower, the less chance.

Spieth said he faced a particularly wild mud ball after shooting at 13. The mud climbed to the left side of his globe, he said, who makes the ball go right. “But then you are on the slope that makes him go left, so I just played it flat,” he said. “I just said,” I will hit a strong hybrid here and play a pull from this sleep, and I almost overcome it, if anything, and if you go left from green, deal with it. You obviously can’t miss the green right there. “

Spieth executed what he called the “best swinging of the day”, a pike searcher that landed in the middle of the green and shared the location of the right rear hole in the posterior bunker. From there, he rose up and down for his third and last noise of the day.

Despite his insistence that mud balls are a taboo subject to raise masters, Spieth is not the first player to promote the topic. In the opening round in 2022, the double winner of the Masters Bubba Watson followed his second shot at 13 from Holering, “Mud! Are you kidding me?!” The moments later, his ball disappeared in Azaleas.

In the 2020 masters, which was played in the novel because of Covid, the mud balls also became a conversation point.

Rickie Fowler said that in tight alleyways, he received approximately half a mud in the round.

“In fact, I mentioned it (playing partner Danny Willett) yesterday when we were at 11,” Fowler said. “He had just lost the right road, in the first cut, and chopped a 6- or 7-Hakuri down there in the middle of green. I was in the middle of the street with a mud ball and had to aim for 12 tee, and I still hit him in the water. So I feel almost harder to get muddy balls in that first cut.

As for this article, Spieth was the back of leader Rory Mcilroy. He will be happy to hear any rain is not in forecast for the weekend.