LOS ANGELES – On his way to the interview area on Friday at the Northern Trust Open, Jordan Spieth passed Dustin Johnson, who asked the world No. 1, “How’d you play?”
“Better than yesterday,” Spieth laughed, which prompted an even more entertaining response from Johnson: “That wasn’t that hard to do.”
Following a first-round 79, his worst opening-day score on the PGA Tour, Spieth had plenty of room for improvement as he scrambled to try to make the cut but he quickly fell into a familiar routine.
Spieth birdied his first hole of the day, No.