PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Jordan Spieth stepped to the tee on a steamy Northeast Florida morning, playing a competitive round for the first time since the world watched him implode on the biggest stage of all.
His first shot Thursday might have been his best, a bomb of a drive down the middle of the fairway with the morning dew skipping off his ball as it rolled to a stop.
Then came the rest of his first round at the Players Championship, and Spieth seemed closer to his unforgettable meltdown at the Masters last month than he was to figuring out what went wrong.