PGA Tour: Jordan Spieth holds lead at FedEx St. Jude Championship

Jordan Spieth seemed unstoppable Thursday, carding a bogey-free 7-under 63 to soar to the highest of the leaderboard on the FedEx St. Jude Championship.

He made 5 birdies and an eagle, along with his three on the par-5 sixteenth being the spotlight of the day.

Measuring 532 yards and enjoying as the simplest gap on the course, Spieth pushed his second shot on the sixteenth to the suitable of the inexperienced.

His ball nestled in a group space beneath the placing floor, so failing to stand up and down was not out of the query.

Spieth had little room for error, however the short-game wizard made it look straightforward. He completely executed the bump-and-run, rolling it into the outlet for an eagle three.

Humorous sufficient, he practiced that very same shot earlier within the week.

“I hit that shot three or 4 occasions to that pin on Tuesday, and clearly completely different situations—it was wetter now—however with how steep it was and the way grainy it was the place it was going to land, it didn’t play a lot completely different,” Spieth revealed after his spherical.

“It’s cool whenever you sit there, and also you’re like, I do know it is a shot I don’t need to have, however I may very a lot have, and it’s not a fantastic spot, so let me simply go forward and see—you hit the precise shot to the precise pin after which [it goes in]. It was a neat shot.”

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Spieth began off his spherical on a excessive word, making three birdies over the primary 5 holes.

He made two extra on the bottom.

After making an eagle on the sixteenth, Spieth duck-hooked his tee shot on 17 to date left that it nearly went out-of-bounds. He struggled along with his driver at occasions Thursday.

“I used the heel of the motive force quite a bit at this time, and I don’t need to hold doing it,” Spieth stated.

“If I really feel actually assured stepping right into a driver, getting in entrance of some pictures, and hitting some good ones, that usually feeds to the remainder of the bag, so I’d like to enhance a bit on simply the place [I hit it off the face.] I hit some fairways, however I hit some fairly far off the heel, after which I toe’d one at 17.”

Alas, Spieth channeled the late Seve Ballesteros on the seventeenth. He managed to save lots of par, holing a nine-footer to remain bogey-free for the day.

He heads into Friday’s spherical holding a one-stroke lead over Tom Kim.

Emiliano Grillo and Collin Morikawa sit two again at 5-under for the championship.

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