Jordan Spieth can’t be the only one this has happened to, and he likely won’t be the last, but he may be the most famous so far.
Playing as a marker in the for-charity Maridoe Samaritan Fund Invitiational in his home course, the Maridoe Golf Club, Spieth launched his tee shot on the 110-yard par-3 17th and watched as it came right down on the hole.
The issue, in these social-distancing times we live in, is that the piece of plastic placed in the hole, like most golf courses around the U.S., didn’t let the ball in. Rather, the ball clanged off and then went into the water.
Golf Channel’s Brentley Romine documented the action on the course.
Jordan Spieth putting spacer back in place after hitting it on the fly with his tee ball. “May as well count it, why not?” pic.twitter.com/blL1oeqIkv
— Brentley Romine (@BrentleyGC) April 30, 2020
Spieth was in a group with CBS analyst extraordinaire and former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo. According to Romine, Romo said for purposes of their match it would be scored a double, Spieth wanted his ace.
“I’m going to count it,” said Spieth. “It was one of those ones where it would most likely have stayed in. … I’ve been shut out for a while, so hopefully this is a good omen.”
Although a purse will be available for the winners, the event is being held as a fundraiser for the club’s full-time caddies, who have been out of work because of the coronavirus pandemic.
“We’re a caddie-only club, and our caddies have not been working because of COVID-19,” Alison Morrison of Maridoe Golf Club told ESPN. “We thought, why don’t we have a little bit of a match, so to speak, sharpen our blades, put on a 54-hole, social distancing event. Leave the pins. No rakes in bunkers. Let’s play for them, basically. And within a day, I had 24 members who said yes.”
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