Jordan Spieth has achieved a rare statistical feat on the PGA Tour, being the first player in 20 years to complete the first two rounds under par with no bogeys but four double bogeys. Despite struggling with accuracy off the tee, his exceptional putting has kept him in contention.
However, in the first two rounds, he did something that hadn’t been done in 20 years on the PGA Tour. According to statistician Justin Ray, Spieth is the first player in the past two decades to have no bogeys—but four double bogeys —while still playing under par in the first two days of any tournament.
Perhaps the drought Spieth ended could have lasted even longer, but Ray wrote on Twitter , “I stopped digging at 20 years because I have a family.”He is the only player over the last 20 years on the PGA Tour to be under par, have 4+ doubles and 0 bogeys through 36 holes in any tournament.Spieth’s first double of the week occurred on the par-4 6th in Round 1, hitting a tee shot out of bounds. Then, he had three Friday on the par-4 1st, par-4 8th and par-4 13th, which included another out-of-bounds drive, a water ball and a failed up-and-down from the greenside bunker. Yet the three-time major champion still carded nine birdies on the first two days despite ranking near the bottom of the field in driving distance, hitting just 42% of his fairways. The bogey-less streak ended on Saturday, though, with a three-putt on the par-4 6th. He added another to his scorecard on the par-4 11th after a wayward tee shot. And, in Spieth fashion, he still shot two under on the front nine., said: “I hit it better than the year I won and I hit it way better than any of the second places or fourths that I hit it.” But it has been his putting that has held him back. This week, however, he is sixth in the field in strokes-gained putting, gaining over five strokes with the flatstick. But he’s negative in every other strokes-gained category.MAX SCHREIBER Max Schreiber is a contributor to the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated, covering golf. Before joining SI in October 2024, the Mahwah, N.J., native, worked as an associate editor for the Golf Channel and wrote for RyderCup.com and FanSided. He is a multiplatform producer for Newsday and has a bachelor's in communications and journalism from Quinnipiac University. In his free time, you can find him doing anything regarding the Yankees, Giants, Knicks and Islanders.
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