Jordan Spieth has made par from a hotel balcony. He’s played from inside a bush, from behind a tree, from angles that would make a physicist weep. On Thursday at the John Deere Classic, he added a new entry to his personal museum of impossible situations: a tee shot that somehow came to rest underneath a pair of trash cans.
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Hole 15, TPC Deere Run. Spieth’s drive found the trash receptacle area — specifically under a cardboard bin next to a plastic recycling container. Spieth did what Spieth does: lifted the cardboard box, looked at the lie, and immediately asked the rules official, “Do I get to do anything about that?”
The official: “No, you have to play it.”
Spieth played it. Hit a 185-yard shot to 3 feet. Made birdie.
The PGA Tour shared the clip with the caption “One man’s trash is Jordan Spieth’s treasure,” which is the most accurate sentence the PGA Tour social team has ever written. Spieth finished the round at 1-under 70 — nothing remarkable on paper, but memorable in ways a scorecard can’t capture.
There are two kinds of golfers: those who would have taken a penalty drop the moment they saw that lie, and Jordan Spieth. One of those golfers is considerably more fun to watch.
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