JOR DROPPING Former Masters champion Jordan Spieth sets horror unwanted record after Augusta meltdown
Brian Harman also produced a record to forget in Augusta
OPEN champion Brian Harman plummeted to the other end of the leaderboard after an horrendous triple bogey-double-double finish at the Masters.And it turned into a double disaster, as Ryder Cup team-mate Jordan Spieth became the first player to take a NINE or worse at the same hole twice in the last twenty years.
Spieth’s latest meltdown at the par five 15th sent him crashing to a seven over par 79, the 2015 champion’s worst round at Augusta by three shots. Spieth, arrived with high hopes of claiming a second green jacket, especially after posting five more top four finishes here since his breakthrough victory.
In 2015 Spieth became only the second 21-year-old to win at Augusta – after Tiger Woods. But at 30, he has become a player who can be brilliant one minute, and toe-curlingly awful the next. His double bogey to start the tournament kicked off another roller-coaster, with two birdies and two more dropped shots keeping him at two over par as he stood on the 15 tee.
But the three time Major winner twice airmailed the green, and put two balls in the water as he ran up ANOTHER quadruple bogey nine. Spieth shot the same number in the opening round of the 2017 Masters. That was just a year after he let a second green jacket slip through his fingers with a triple bogey sixth at the 12th, where he sent another couple of balls to a watery grave.
At least his misery was not long and drawn out. The same could not be said for Harman. The little left-hander, playing in his first Major championship since he romped to a six shot victory at Royal Liverpool, looked shell-shocked as it all unravelled at Augusta.
