PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Jordan Spieth rolled in a 12-foot birdie putt on his third hole Thursday at the Valspar Championship, just what he needed to settle down after a bogey-bogey start as the defending champion.
"Started 20 minutes too early today," he said.
That was his only birdie of the day. Maybe he started two hours too early.
Spieth never recovered from the opening seven holes in which he had to get up-and-down to save bogey four times and twice was stymied by trees on the par 5s. He finished with 10 pars and a three-putt bogey for a 5-under 76 and was in danger of missing another cut.