Jordan
Spieth
Bubba
Wat s on
13th
510 yards
Par514th
440yards
Par416th
170 yards
Par317th
440yards
Par418th
465yards
Par4I don’t try to get too fancy with the tee
shot. I usually hit 3-wood. It’s been
more successful for me to get a hook
around the corner. I then have a long
iron in and a big decision as to whether
I go for it or not. It’s a very tough shot.
Anywhere on that green and you’ve
conquered the hole.
AVERAGE SCORE: 4.42I play a big slice. If it’s downwind, I can
get over the trees and leave something
really short into the green. From the
fairway it’s a great birdie or eagle
chance. I never try to attack the
back pin. I’m mostly just trying to
land it in the centre and have at
worst a two-putt.
AVERAGE SCORE: 4.31My favourite hole. We’ll see the back
left pin on Thursday or Friday, then
we’ll see it towards the middle on
Sunday. I try to keep the ball below the
hole on all of them. The back right pin
is tough to birdie but it’s an easy par
because if I’m down the ridge I know
the speed and line.
AVERAGE SCORE: 3.0When the pin is front left or back left,
it’s just a perfect cut shot for me with a
mid-iron. I seem to play those kinds of
pins well. Everybody in the fi eld has
trouble with the front right and back
right pin positions, so I’m just aiming
into the bowl in the middle of the green.
AVERAGE SCORE: 3.0I aim down the right centre and turn it
over. It’s a crazy green but you can
make birdie because the ball feeds
down to the hole from the left. Miss
on the wrong tier and you leave a
diffi cult putt.I prefer to miss right.
Miss left and the ball will go straight
down the hill. It won’t stop.
AVERAGE SCORE: 3.92I just cut it up the fairway to leave a
pitching wedge or sand wedge into a
two-tiered green. The right pin you aim
left and let it funnel down off the slope,
which I did in 2012 and made birdie. The
left pin is delicate – push it and it’s an
impossible chip. So I play safe and
usually leave a 30-40 footer.
AVERAGE SCORE: 4.03Driver down the middle, fi nd where the
pin is and hit in to that side. On back
left pins I want to get all the way
back because the green goes
downhill. It’s easier to miss long
and chip back up to the hole than
face a downhill 20-footer. The
uphill right pin is still wicked fast.
AVERAGE SCORE: 4.5When it’s downwind, I often hit 3-wood
because the fairway narrows so much.
Either way, I aim at the trees and cut it.
From the fairway it’s a birdie chance
with a short-iron. The back right pin is
tough. If I pull it, the ball goes down the
slope and leaves a diffi cult chip back up
to the hole.
AVERAGE SCORE: 4.16I try to hit a left-to-right tee shot and
fade it off the bunker. Again, I want to
know where the pin is so I can get at it
from the best angle. I really just want
to hit it in the centre of the green either
on the bottom or top shelf. If I’m on
the right level I can make birdie from
any of the pins.
AVERAGE SCORE: 4.0This is diffi cult because it’s tight and my
cut goes straight at the traps. In 2016, I
hammered a 3-wood at the sand
knowing I couldn’t reach. The longer shot in
takes away some advantage but I’m still
hitting a shorter iron than others. On the
back pins, you play smart and take
a two-putt.
AVERAGE SCORE: 4.19‘IT’S A CRAZY GREEN BUT YOU
CAN MAKE BIRDIE BECAUSE
THE BALL FEEDS DOWN TO THE
PIN FROM THE LEFT’
JORDAN SPIETH, 14TH HOLEBEST
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