Jordan Spieth at the Crowne Plaza Invitational

2013 Crowne Plaza Invitational

Second-Round Interview with Jordan Spieth at the Crowne Plaza

JOHN BUSH:   Jordan Spieth joins us.  He's at 8 under par through two rounds of the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial.  Jordan, another round in the 60s today, a great effort, if we could get some comments on your round. 

JORDAN SPIETH:  Yes, it was a little more up and down than yesterday.  Still very consistent.  I'm happy with the way I'm striking the ball, no complaints there.  I hit a lot of great putts.  I had four or five lip outs.  I had some putts go in, but took a penalty stroke on an unfortunate break on the green, just a little more up and down than yesterday.  But I'm still happy with it.
 
JOHN BUSH:   Yes, take us through that, what happened on the green there.
 
JORDAN SPIETH:  So on No. 6 I hit it about 15 feet past the hole.  It was, I guess when guys were walking off the green, the group in front of us, you know, it was in where one of their feet, where they step. Is that rain (sound on roof in interview room)?

JOHN BUSH:  Yes.

JORDAN SPIETH:  That's so awesome. 

It sat kind of in between where the spikes were on like the ground there so I marked it.  And when I went back to where to put the ball back, I obviously put it right back to where it was before.  It stayed where it was, so I just went to go hit my putt.  I took my practice strokes, and saw it maybe kind of start to tilt.  But it stopped again.  So I put my putter down.  Right as I put my putter down, the ball kind of fell down into the cleat mark.  And my putter did not cause it to move it.  I know that for a fact it was going to move.  But it was just a bad break in timing.  If I had hit the putt two seconds earlier, it wouldn't have done that.  If I waited two seconds longer, I wouldn't have grounded my putter.  So I had to call a rules official over, and put it back where it was, and take a one-stroke penalty.  It's an unfortunate ruling.  That's just how it goes.