AKRON, Ohio – While he wasn’t sporting a top hat, and he never produced a wand, Jordan Spieth pulled off nothing short of a magic trick during the opening round of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational.
An erratic day of ball-striking that could have easily yielded an over-par score instead ended with 68 swipes, leaving Spieth at 2 under and very much in the mix for the season’s final WGC title.
Spieth was visibly frustrated throughout much of his round, and he found only two of his first 13 greens in regulation. But he held it together with a number of clutch par saves, notably a 21-foot par save off the fringe on No.