Jordan Spit knocks the driver off the deck and then does something to Spit

Posted by Jack Hirsch March 18, 2023

Jordan Spieth had another Spiethism on Saturday at hole 5.

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It’s often said about good, smart golf that you want to be boring: center of the fairway, center of the green, two shots, maybe one shot.

As you probably know, Jordan Spieth doesn’t play that kind of golf.

Spit started his third round at the Valspar Championship as well as he could have wished, hitting a par-5 to eight-foot iron, turning his gaze into an eagle and moving into a share of the lead.

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Then, in classic Spit fashion, he missed two of the next three greens, but went up and down each time as nighttime leader Adam Schenk bugged him to give the 13-time PGA Tour winner a solo lead.

Playing his fifth hole, the colorful Texan gave us fans another classic “spiteism”.

Even after he covered 298 yards – the longest par-5 of the day at nearly 600 yards – Spit still had 283 yards uphill around the bend to the hole. Instead of doing what all but three of the other players did on Saturday and laying it down, Spit grabbed a big stick again and went to the green.

The 29-year-old fried a low draw right at the flag. Eventually, the ball landed on the slope of the front left bunker on the green, but directly in front of the pins.

Spit immediately went to retrieve his ball, but as he climbed to the top of the hill and began to see the green, he turned to caddy Michael Greller in shock.

“Wow!” Spit exclaimed. “I got the wrong line by a mile.”

He was probably trying to use the slope to the right of the green to get the ball onto the putting surface. Now he faced a short throw from the bunker.

But we’re talking about Jordan Spite. The Texan tossed his sandstone into the air and saw it plop right into the hole like a sack of flour. He leaked a little over six feet, which he did at the time to take a two-shot lead.

With Spit on the hunt for his first title since last spring, you can bet that won’t be the end of his eccentric antics this week.

Jack Hirsch Golf.com Editor

Jack Hirsch is an assistant editor at GOLF. Jack, a native of Pennsylvania, graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 2020 with a degree in radio journalism and political science. He was the captain of his high school golf team and still *trying* to stay competitive with the locals. Prior to joining GOLF, Jack spent two years at a TV station in Bend, Oregon, primarily as a multimedia journalist/reporter, as well as producing, anchoring and even presenting the weather. He can be contacted at jack.hirsh@golf.com.