He’s back!
ANNC: 7,500 people here, Jordan Spieth making them sound like 75,000!
It was a short game duel on Sunday for Spieth’s 12th victory.
ANNC: Just magnificent. Magnificent shot!
Don’t hassle the Hoff! Charley Hoffman on his heels, applied the pressure.
ANNC: Oh yeah! Charley Hoffman, the unexpected birdie!
I like the fist pumps, but the Shooter McGavin was even better.
ANNC: That’s an indication Cameron Tringale is having a good time out here.
And we had a great time watching these guys battle it out this weekend.
In the end, Jordan Spieth took home his first victory in 83 starts, that’s 3 years
and 255 days. What a Good, Bad & Unusual week it was, at the Valero Texas Open.
Spieth’s wedges were on display, just in time for Augusta.
ANNC: Oh! You’ve got to be kidding me!
SPIETH: I was looking to lay up way to the left and then I walked up
to the green and saw that was just as difficult as going at the hole,
so I figured I may as well go at the hole, in case I pulled the shot off.
Well he did. And pulled this one off with all the distractions.
SPIETH: Uh, can you keep your hands down? Sorry. Thank you for the help.
SPIETH: Kid getting dragged off.
FAN: Jordan, are you going to try something stupid here?
ANNC: This has got a touch of pull on it as well. It’s going
to be close whether it holds on. Oh, it holds on! It’s in fine shape! Turn
around and look at that kid now and say, ‘Did that look stupid to you?’
The crazy winds tried to make these guys look dumb.
DAHMEN: You idiot.
But coming off a win in Puntacana the week prior, Joel Dahmen knew how to turn it around.
DAHMEN: Please, go in. Please, go in. Yes!
Jordan is his own best announcer. Listen in to his commentary.
SPIETH: Go.
Stay there. Came into me. Feel that right now? I played it to be straight off the right or a little
help, but then it shot up into and it flew five yards short. I was going to just play it at those
camera guys with a low draw. And then when we were feeling that wind, I had to change the shot. Wow!
That was a bad beat right there, Michael.
Why did the golfer wear two pairs of pants?
In case he gets a hole-in-one!
Now this, has to be the start of another good dad joke.
ANNC: How many TOUR pros does it take to remove a flagstick? It looked like two and two caddies.
The flagstick had several tricks up its sleeve this week.
On April Fools Day, Kyle Stanley got fooled into thinking this was an ace.
ANNC: Oh! That is rattling it.
He wasn’t the only one that got fooled. Sebastian Munoz HAD to think this one was in.
ANNC: A couple hops… Oh!
Look at this, in the cup and back out!
This is just starting to get cruel. Cameron Percy became another victim of the flagstick.
ANNC: This one even prettier. Oh!
If you thought that was brutal, Phil went into battle against the 18th this week.
On Thursday, recorded a 10 on the closing hole.
The second highest score of his career.
ANNC: And that’s 7? We could be here a while.
They say this game owes you nothing,
but maybe this time it owed Phil. The next day he nearly holed out for eagle!
ANNC: I would say the 18th owed him something.
After going in the creek, Tom Hoge had himself some redemption on the 18th
too. Hoge also had a career-high 9 birdies in one day this week!
The last time Brandt Snedeker had a hole-out over 100 yards was at the 2018 Wyndham
Championship and if you have a good memory, you’d remember that was when he shot his 59.
But he didn’t just get one this week, he got two! Probably because he asked nicely for it to ‘go.’
SNEDEKER: Go!
And it did.
ANNC: Uh, yeah. I guess! Wow! Brandt Snedeker!
Wow, indeed!
ANNC: Third at the par-5 eighth.
ANNC: Oh he did. Will it spin, oh?!
Brandt Snedeker. And that’s the second hole-out he’s had this week.
He’s not the only one, Hideki Matsuyama did this from the rough for eagle Sunday.
ANNC: On the middle on the right side. Oh, that’s more like it! OK!
At least he got to celebrate that one, he didn’t even know he holed out when he did it on Thursday.
ANNC: Yes! Oh my, he doesn’t even know it’s in the hole. Come on!
Plenty to celebrate this weekend, from engagements to babies,
our players had some big life announcements.
Jon Rahm warned everyone he’d pack up and leave this week’s Masters if his wife went into labor
while he was at Augusta. Well, Kepa Cahill Rahm came early instead. Congratulations to the Rahms.
And congratulations to the future Koepkas. Brooks got engaged to his,
now fiancé, Jena Sims. The couple announced their engagement on Friday.
Just four months later and we are back at Augusta! That’s right,
the Masters is this week and you know where to get your daily recaps.
I will catch you up on everything each day in The Takeaway on PGATOUR.com and social media.
So grab your pimento cheese sandwiches! And I’ll see you there.