ESPN.com · Apr 10, 2016
Spieth loses lead after carding quad-bogey on 12
AUGUSTA, Ga. - Jack Nicklaus once called it "the most dangerous par-3 in the game,'' and Jordan Spieth discovered that the hard way on Sunday afternoon.
Seemingly cruising to a second straight Masters title at Augusta National, Spieth knocked two balls into Rae's Creek in front of the par-3 12th hole to see a one-shot lead turn into a three-shot deficit.
Spieth, the defending champion who led by five shots when he made the turn, made a quadruple-bogey 7 at the 12th. His tee shot came up short in the water, and then he failed to get his wedge shot from a drop zone onto the green. After another drop, he hit his 5th shot into the back bunker, from where he got up and down for a 7.