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Jordan Spieth on 'ace' that hit spacer on fly at Dallas event: 'I'm going to count it'

Jordan Spieth had a hole-in-one in his return to competitive golf.

Well, sort of.

The three-time major champion was playing as an unofficial marker in Thursday’s final round of the Maridoe Samaritan Fund Invitational, a 54-hole fundraiser for the caddies at Spieth’s home club of Maridoe Golf Club, when his tee ball at the 110-yard, par-3 17th hole hit the plastic social-distancing spacer (yes, that’s actually a golf term now) placed inside of the cup.

"We were playing a little two-on-two match and my partner was already on the green, about 12 feet, so I said, 'I may as well go right at it, right?