Jordan Spieth Unhappy With Media Treatment

“I’ve got two thirds and a second in the Open, I know what I want out of this week, but too many thoughts on the outcome is never good so I am going to try and stay on the mental plan I have and put in another good display”. But here’s a guess that Jordan Spieth will find the fastest putting green available, drop a few balls and put a huge smile on his face.

When he was 19, Sergio Garcia finished a shot back of victor Tiger Woods in the 1999 PGA Championship at Chicago’s Medinah, and it was believed he would become a multiple major victor as the years passed.

“I just tried to smile, tried to enjoy the fact that you don’t play in this often”.

“You wish this was just a round with your buddies where you go into the clubhouse and have one or seven pints afterwards”. He’s Phil Mickelson though, you know.

“I can’t remember anything that significant. Let’s hope for a decent round tomorrow and hopefully I can move my way even more up the scoreboard”.

U.S. Open champion Dustin Johnson became yet another victim of the Railway Hole, the 11th, a 482-yard par-4 with tracks of the Glasgow-to-Ayr train along the right side.

Meanwhile, Colin Montgomerie received a welcome surprise by making the halfway cut on his home course. Spieth’s epic 2015 – two major titles, the FedEx Cup, the legitimate placing of No1 in the world – fuelled the suggestion of the Texan as a dominant figure in golf. Spieth said he’ll use Sunday’s final round at Troon as his last competitive warmup for the PGA Championship at Baltusrol, which begins the day after his birthday.

The wind is forecast to pick up in the afternoon, and the temperature is expected to drop.

“It’s one of those things I’m afraid”. I needed some help and I did not get it unfortunately. “It’s very much a shame”. His quadruple-bogey 7 was the result of three shots from the bunker – the last of which came after hitting a pitch shot through the green and into the same trap he escaped one shot prior.

“I was disappointed that the tees were up on 16 and 17”, Spieth said. Everyone took their weather gear off but once we got to 12 the weather turned pretty bad. “Whenever your umbrella’s horizontal trying to keep the rain off you, it’s always going to be a tricky one”.

While, as we seek to assess the credentials of this modern “big four” in terms of their potential to achieve greatness, the relative ordinariness of their performances in failing to challenge over the first three days at Royal Troon signifies nothing in any wider context, then, how they deal with that still might.

He was unable to card a single birdie, and had slipped to four over by the turn after following a bogey at six with another at the next.