Jordan Spieth called it his “best swing of the week.”
The same swing ended up costing him the golf tournament.
Leading the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am by a shot over Tom Hoge late on Sunday afternoon, Jordan Spieth stood on the tee box at Pebble’s par-3 17th hole and sized up the shot: 185 yards to the flag, 175 to cover the front bunker. A day earlier, his 9-iron carried nearly 170 yards on the hole. So, he clubbed up only one.
“It was really tricky because the wind kept going almost back to northeast, and then it would go to northwest, and with a cold wind here that makes such a massive difference, more than it does anywhere else that we play, I think,” Spieth said.