Q. Talk about this putt at 6. 63 feet. I mean, just describe it. I saw it, but --
JORDAN SPIETH: Sure. Yeah, I hit the putt a couple times yesterday. If you're in trouble off the tee there, it is way safer to go at the right half of that green. So it's a place where even in the bunker -- you can reach the green. It's still easier if you can get it either in the greenside bunker or on the green than hitting a full wedge in on the third.
I did hit the putt a couple times, and I hit it poorly, like, twice yesterday from a little different place but pretty close. I was just trying to get the right speed. On those putts, I walk up and try to find where the fall line is on top and, you know, see a pitch mark or something where my ball needs to essentially roll around.
So I hit the putt kind of around where I wanted to, and I thought it was maybe a foot or so short overall, and as it kept going down I'm, like, it might get there. It's at the hole. And then it fell off the side of the lip, which was nice. I had decent chances on the first five holes and felt like I hit pretty good putts that just missed. And then, of course, it's golf right there, right? So you stay patient, you get rewarded.
Q. The thought was you might have walked it in, but you were walking it to see what the break might be for the next one, more or less?
JORDAN SPIETH: Yeah. Right. I did it on 18 here too because I thought -- halfway there I started to kind of walk and see if this was on the right line. You can't tell from where you hit it when you're playing that much break, so a lot of times I just walk to the high side and see. But I was also starting to walk because I thought maybe it was a foot short, which it's hard to judge that from that far.
Q. What happened on 18? Did you 2-putt?
JORDAN SPIETH: Yeah. No, it was a similar type. You got to play it so far out that I was walking, like -- I always walk to the high side to see -- I'll see the track of the ball if it might go in or not.
Q. What's that like to get your round going when you make a long putt like that?
JORDAN SPIETH: It's great just to get into red on this golf course before anything else. Because then you don't feel like you've -- you don't feel, like on 7, I didn't feel like I needed to try to hit it further on the third shot, I didn't have to try to get back to the pin. It shouldn't matter, but when we're used to shooting under par when we play, it's really nice when you actually get that one, and it actually kinds of helps you stay patient from there. I hate when the golf course is beating me, so I always want to be ahead of it. And obviously out here that's different than the last tournament I played, but it's just kind of a mentality thing. So I felt like I just, I had a very good game plan and stuck to it today. But that being a bonus one makes you think, Okay, if I was trying to shoot a couple under maybe that's 3- now, because you weren't necessarily expecting to get that one.
Q. What club did you hit from the bunker on 17 and should anyone be impressed?
JORDAN SPIETH: 7-iron. Yeah, I mean Jason was clapping, which we don't really clap for each other very often. It was definitely a borderline one. I had 182 yards and not a lot of space. So it was -- off the tee I was looking, I thought that bunker was up -- I guess maybe the old one was at like 150 front, so I actually thought it was all right. And I looked at my book and it was like 170 front, and I'm like, Oh that's not good, because I know they're all concave, you don't really get a lot of space in the fairway bunkers here.
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