The 3-time main winner took the ones restoration talents to any other stage on the AT&T Pebble Seashore Professional-Am in Saturday’s 3rd spherical in what proved to be somewhat of a cliffhanger.
After his force at the par-four 8th hollow landed precariously close to the brink of a cliff, fairly than taking a drop to transport his ball — that may have value a shot — Spieth determined to take it on.
He addressed and readdressed the ball a couple of occasions, adjusting his footing to verify his stance was once solid.
And in spite of the virtually 70-foot drop simply inches in entrance of him, Spieth hooked up cleanly with the ball, temporarily transferring himself again from the brink of the cliff once he’d made touch.
‘Awfully shut’
Most likely understandably Spieth was once nonetheless speaking about that cliffhanger second after he’d completed his spherical.
“It was once through some distance probably the most nerve-wracking shot I have ever hit. Like Michael (Greller) mentioned afterwards: ‘I must have grabbed the ball and thrown it within the water’ as a result of he was once looking to get me to not hit it. I used to be like: ‘Michael, please do not stroll up there’ as a result of then he would’ve noticed no doubt to not hit it.
“It was once awfully shut. I have by no means had a lifestyles and demise scenario on a shot sooner than. So I believed I would not in reality have nerves the remainder of the day after that one.”
Remarkably, Spieth was once in a position to salvage a par from the opening, with the perilous shot touchdown simply over the golf green. From there, he was once in a position to chip onto the golf green and roll house a 10-foot par for par.
