Q. Jordan, how did it feel out there?
JORDAN SPIETH: It felt good. I felt like Sunday last week. I kind of didn't trust what I was doing. My wrist kind of hurt in the first round last week and I went away from all the work that I had been doing just to kind of manipulate what I could, and then I said, you know what, I just have to get through it. So I was back to the status quo Sunday on all the stuff that I had been doing, and it paid off there.
Then I put in a few good days of work here and thought I played better than I scored. I hit some beautiful putts that burned edges, high, low, left and right. I made a long one.
But to play a round in a few under out here when the conditions were -- the pins were really tucked today so it was a little harder than a normal first round in the morning here, and to feel like I left a few out there is a really good feeling. It makes me feel like I'm close to back to where I want to be.
Q. When you say your wrist hurt, is that from soreness?
JORDAN SPIETH: I was in a bunker on Spyglass No. 1, my 10th hole, and I had to flick one and it jammed it pretty good, and it locked up on me for a little while.
Yeah, when it's not moving well, for me, I've got a lot of lean and a lot of left hand involved, and if it's not leaning, it's going to go pretty far off line. Luckily this is a really good test these few weeks, and my expectations are low. I expect myself to make good swings, but as far as results, it's hard to think that I should be expecting a lot after six months after essentially.
Having said that, I know where I was today, and I know that I can do better than I did today. If I can try to post a few scores at or better than today, then you never know, I start getting back in the mix and it becomes pretty fun and hopefully more consistent.
Q. Did you have a highlight of the day, favorite moment or shot?
JORDAN SPIETH: I hit a cool one into 16, which is always fun. So yeah, I made a really long one on 6 where -- with like five feet to go, I was like, that's going on, that's cool, from 50 feet. That doesn't happen every day. Yeah, those are my two that felt probably the most fun out there.
Q. Was it a new putter in the bag at all today?
JORDAN SPIETH: Yeah, I was trying out some things, yeah.
Q. What was the genesis of deciding to do that?
JORDAN SPIETH: I'm just kind of messing with some -- I've got a few options, just trying to mess a little with how it sits on the ground, the draft on the bottom of the putter, see if I can get it to where it sets aligning a little better and off the ball is a little bit smoother. I may use a few options this week. I may stick with the one I did today. We'll see.
Q. Is that your first new one in a while?
JORDAN SPIETH: Yeah, I used a mallet style putter in 2017 and then I threatened last year when I was -- but I never ended up using a different putter, but I was trying out a few different options, different heads and stuff like that. I'm just trying to figure out what helps me stroke it the best, and I'll use that one.
Q. What is that putter you used today? Where did it come from?
JORDAN SPIETH: I've had it for a long time. I've had putters sent my way. It's a TP Mills and it's just one that I had so much time off, I just messed with everything in my basement and decided to bring a few putters out here and used my gamer last week, used that one today. I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to do from here.
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