{"id":154371,"date":"2022-12-11T05:13:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T05:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jordan-spieth-justin-thomas-def-tiger-woods-rory-mcilroy-3-and-2\/"},"modified":"2022-12-11T05:13:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T05:13:02","slug":"jordan-spieth-justin-thomas-def-tiger-woods-rory-mcilroy-3-and-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jordan-spieth-justin-thomas-def-tiger-woods-rory-mcilroy-3-and-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Spieth\/Justin Thomas def. Tiger Woods\/Rory McIlroy, 3 and 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hole 4 (par 4, 447 yards)<\/b><\/p>\n
This hole presented a one-club challenge; Spieth selected 4-iron, Thomas took 5-wood, McIlroy chose 3-iron and Woods sneakily refused to reveal his club choice. \u201cAre you just using 4-iron and not telling anybody?\u201d Thomas asked with a laugh.<\/p>\n
Spieth played first and missed the fairway to the right. \u201cCan my partner change to a 3-wood?\u201d Thomas inquired, before puring his 5-wood down the middle. McIlroy played a high draw that safely found the left-center of the fairway, before Woods provided a twist with a low stinger to an adjacent fairway.<\/p>\n
Upon arriving at his ball, Woods found a tree in his line and was forced to reassess his game plan. He concluded that he could not reach the green, opting to play a hard draw that found fairway some 60 yards short of the green.<\/p>\n
Spieth’s second shot settled in the right fairway, a similar distance from the hole as Woods.<\/p>\n
\u201cI need to hit a high cut over these trees out of a divot with a 3-iron,\u201d McIlroy explained his scenario, before slightly chunking his approach (fairly so), the ball catching the tree line. Spieth flushed his 5-wood, the ball sailing over the green and coming into contact with a golf cart.<\/p>\n
\u201cLook, if you play this course enough, you understand that cart hangs there,\u201d Thomas quipped. \u201cTiger’s done that his whole career, hitting it into galleries and ending up fine.\u201d<\/p>\n
From 60 or so yards, Spieth played a bump-and-run that ran out 20 feet past the hole. McIlroy found himself to have a clean angle for his third, from the pine straw, but his chip got caught up in the fringe to leave 30 feet for par. Woods played a low runner for his third and immediately asked for it to sit, the ball trickling over the green to leave 40 feet for par. From behind the green, Thomas played a putt-type shot with his 5-wood and judged it perfectly, the ball releasing to 6 feet. Spieth even held the gallery rope while Thomas craftily executed his play. <\/p>\n
Woods’ fourth shot settled 8 feet short and right, as the group discussed the majestic vibe of the radiant moon. McIlroy played his fourth to within a couple feet. Spieth’s fourth shot hung up 4 feet short in the evening dew, before Woods’ fifth shot held a perfect line but stopped a foot short.<\/p>\n
Facing a 6-foot left-to-right curler for par to win the hole, Thomas produced a smooth stroke, the ball catching the left side of the cup and falling in. A \u201ctoe flier,\u201d as he called it.<\/p>\n
Spieth\/Thomas 3 up thru 4<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hole 4 (par 4, 447 yards) This hole presented a one-club challenge; Spieth selected 4-iron, Thomas took 5-wood, McIlroy chose 3-iron and Woods sneakily refused to reveal his club choice. \u201cAre you just using 4-iron and not telling anybody?\u201d Thomas asked with a laugh. Spieth played first and missed the fairway to the right. \u201cCan …<\/p>\n