AT&T National: Jordan Spieth Continues to Flash in Rookie Season

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Published: June 28, 2013

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Quick, remember what you were doing in the summertime at the age of 19.

Was it working a nice, little full-time job at a local grocery store, restaurant or whatever place would give you a measly salary enough to get you by in school the next year?

Or did it involve an internship (possibly unpaid), where you slaved long hours desperate to find experience useful to your resume in post-graduate life?

Maybe you took a risk, dropped out of school and searched for your next venture totally oblivious as to where that would come.

Whatever it is, Jordan Spieth has got you beat.

On Friday, the Texas lad charged his way into a tie for the lead at the AT&T National, posting a second-round 66 to catch Roberto Castro and surge ahead of the rest of the field.

And what an easy 66 it was.

Spieth hit a pair of mediocre approach shots in his first four holes, but still managed a birdie and three pars over that opening stretch.

Then he caught fire.

The 19-year-old displayed his youthful aggressiveness over the remainder of the front-nine, lasering an approach to five feet for birdie on No. 5, getting up-and-down for another on No. 6, stuffing a wedge three feet from the flag for yet another red score on No. 8, and rounding out the opening half by firing a 200-yard approach 11 feet from the flag and holing the putt for his fourth birdie in five holes.

The scintillating start to the round vaulted Spieth into the solo lead, and while his ball-striking continued to flourish on the back nine, the putter failed to cooperate. That meant nine two-putt pars to finish, allowing first-round leader Roberto Castro to catch him at 7 under par.

Still, the Dallas native made the normally tough Congressional layout appear no more fearsome than a local muni, finding all 18 greens in regulation and affording himself birdie attempts inside 15 feet on half of those holes.

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Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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