Jordan Spieth endured a topsy-turvy start to the player championship on Thursday and collected two eagles, two birds, two bogeys and a double bogey and it was just over his first nine holes.
Spieth added another birdie and a bogey over their last nine holes to finish on 2-under-pair 70 on the stadium track on TPC Sawgrass.
The first round started positively on Thursday for the three times large winner, who started on the 10th hole. He sent an approach only 14 inches from the cup for a simple Tap-in Birdie on the PAR-4 hole.
“Yes, I started a dream start, and then I was just not so tight from tee today, and out here eventually it will hurt you,” Spieth said after the round.
Spieth chipped in from a green bunker for an eagle at PAR-5 11th before following up two pairs with a shot in the water at PAR-4 14. A double bogey was the final result there, and a bogey of 15 was answered by his other eagle on the day at PAR-5 16th.
A bogey on PAR-3 17th was counteracted by a birdie on PAR-4 18th to end the chaotic stretch.
Spieth said he would prefer to avoid that type of volatility in one round. “I feel I would like it to be boring,” he said.
Spieth, 31, has gone well when he worked out Kinks after Offseason -wrist surgery and recorded a T4 on the WM Phoenix Open and a T9 at Cognizant Classic in Palm Beachs.
Spieth, who is a 13 o’clock winner on the PGA Tour, has slipped to No. 65 in the official world gol. His last title came on RBC Heritage in April 2022.
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