He finished two rounds with one of the 10 best scores of the day in his last trip to this tournament. Kurt Kitayama takes lead at Arnold Palmer Invitational And when hes not writing about ways to hit the golf ball farther and straighter, the Milwaukee native is probably playing the game, hitting the ball left, right and short, and drinking a cold beer to wash away his score. Jordan Spieth | Player Profile | The 150th Open 2021 US Open odds, picks and predictions for Jordan Spieth Not finding success early here was, yeah, its disappointing, but it took me somewhere else to grow, Kitayama said of his first few years as a professional golfer. There was that cart path, too. Spieth has finished below par five times and carded five rounds with a better-than-average score over his last seven rounds played. The Open 2022 live scoring and first round leaderboard as Rory - Yahoo! I mean, you find yourself in some interesting spots. Homa ranks inside the top 10 in both strokes-gained off the tee and strokes-gained approach, and he should make his way up the leaderboard if his short-game woes subside. Thats such a terrible stat, he said Friday. Jordan Spieth, Chris Kirk, Taylor Montgomery (-6): Warning: This is going to be a very Spieth-heavy article (for obvious reasons). Find more golf coverage from The Dallas Morning News here. Getty Images. The lack of hardware is not for lack of trying; he grabbed a third-place finish at the Honda Classic before runner-up results came at the Mexico Open and Scottish Open in 2022. Cueto . And its blowing 30 miles an hour, he said. -6 $137K 14. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Over the first two days of the Waste Management Phoenix Open, Jordan Spieth saw the kind of round he has been looking for. Last year alone, he fell one shot sort of Jon Rahm in Mexico, Xander Schauffele in Scotland and Rory McIlroy in South Carolina. With Monterey and Pebble Beach out in the open, players such as Jordan Spieth at 28-1 and Matt Fitzpatrick at 100-1 still present some intrigue. 2023 Sony Open leaderboard, scores: Jordan Spieth shares lead with The world No. Jordan Spieth, an incredible beginner mistake Kitayama's familiarity with not only windy conditions, but this area, could propel him to the winner's circle. He joined The Dallas Morning News after covering UConn basketball, football and high school sports for The Hartford Courant. In 2021 in his last entry here at this tournament, Spieth finished fourth. For the second day in a row, Viktor Hovland earns this honor ace! On the 72nd hole, Spieth holed out from a greenside . A bogey at the par-4 8th sent him out with a 3-under 33. Amateur title here in 2018, Hovland will have fond memories as he enters the weekend on the outskirts of contention. It's just the last five holes, even though I didn't feel like I was making bad swings, I just couldn't quite get it going and finished poorly the last stretch. This number would hold steady for the remainder of the day despite the forecasted strong winds laying down late in the afternoon. Vick, a Houston native, followed his even-par first round with a 1-under 69 on Friday. 21+, see Tipico.com for Terms and Conditions. The 2023 Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard, which has a $20,000,000.00 purse, is slated for March 2 5 at Bay Hill Club & Lodge in Orlando, Florida, and Jordan Spieth will be one of the participants joining the fray. CBS Sports is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. Commissioner.com is a registered trademark of CBS Interactive Inc. site: media | arena: golf | pageType: stories | The first round of one of the most anticipated tournaments of this phase of the season on the PGA Tour, the Arnold Palmer Invitational, took place on the course of Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill . The turn in the weather near the end of Round 1 persisted into Friday. That would have been a better shot than taking an unplayable so thats what I would have done. So not surprised to see him up there on the leaderboard.. The temperature could be as high as 90 degrees. Don't look now, but Jordan Spieth will play seven of the next eight tournaments on the PGA Tour schedule, starting at next week's AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. You can reach out to him about any of these topics his stories, his game or his beers at nick.piastowski@golf.com. Spieth, 23, posted a bogey-free five-under-par 65 to set the clubhouse lead and was swiftly joined by US Open champion Brooks Koepka and, later in the day, Matt Kuchar. Theres plenty of power from those legs on the 5-foot-7 Kitayama. BROOKLINE, Mass. Keith Mitchell and Seamus Power, who stand at 8 under and 7 under, respectively, will also take to Pebble Beach on Saturday, beginning the latter stages of this tournament a bit closer to Kitayama. Two over par through six-holes, Spieth sailed through the next. So it teaches you more about your game. Spieth is trying to find something ahead of April. The 30-year-old University of Nevada product carded five birdies and just one bogey on a blustery day at Bay Hill. The Associated Press. But he answered with a 100-foot bunker shot to tap-in range on the par-3 17th, and with the wind at his back, hit gap wedge to 10 feet for birdie. And that brings us to the left-handed stance, the rules official and the ruling. Today I thought a couple under was going to be a really good score just based on what the wind forecast was going to be like, but we got lucky, said Morikawa. The PGA Tour announced the field for what's often known as golf's "fifth major," and Tiger Woods was not part of the group that will tee it up at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Local Scoreboard; NHL Hockey Scores and Matchups; The Big Ticket; . So it's just, it's tough. He was five behind. Xander Schauffele, Corey Conners (-6), T5. Sign up for the For The Win newsletter to get our top stories in your inbox every morning. Double Down, Ohio! Are you searching on google for How to contact Jordan Spieth? 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The PGA Tour, in a memo obtained by ESPN, told its members that, starting in 2024, eight designated events will have fields between 70 to 80 players and no cuts. He hangs tough and hes got a good head on his shoulders. He two-putted for a double and dropped to 4-over par, which was the eventual cutline. A drop-kicked, snap-hooked drive that traveled less than 200 yards and, according to an observer, got no more than 30 feet off the ground. This time last year, Kitayama was ranked outside the top 250 in the Official World Golf Rankings. Sign up for fuboTV and get live sports and shows, without cable! Justin Thomas managed eight birdies, only for a bogey-bogey finish for a 67. Excuse my language, but its (expletive) hard, Rahm said. Unlike so many others at this U.S. Open, however, Spieth speaks from experience. pic.twitter.com/xtiNIq8Qqf. With Rahm dropping from 7 under to 3 under in the span of a hour, the field was given new life after the hottest player in the world may have graciously opened the door for someone else to win a golf tournament. Young was 8 under through 14 holes on Friday before finishing with two bogeys and a double. Kitayama also finished tied for second place behind Jon Rahmthecurrent world No. S. Straka -9 $288K 5. He was smiling as he spoke, happy to be done and resigned that a tough day at the office would not belong only to him in these conditions. T5. SOUTHPORT, England Day 1 of the 146th British Open featured an American invasion on top of the leaderboard at Royal Birkdale. Xander Schauffele: Schauffele made his way up the leaderboard thanks to a solid 2-under 70. . Why not?. March 1, 2023 ; My Blog. Heres what he told Damon Hack on Golf Channel: Theres that little space in between the cart path and the out of bounds so I had no stance to hit it right-handed, but I had enough room to hit a shot left-handed to punch it up the path up the rough. After duck-hooking his drive next to the out-of-bounds fence, Spieth took a left-handed stance with his feet on the cart path. One was Greg Koch, in the rough on the difficult par-4 ninth.