Jordan Spieth at Masters 2016: Leaderboard Score, Twitter Reaction from Sunday

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Published: April 10, 2016

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The tailors at the 2016 Masters wouldn't even have to break out their tape measures. For the second straight year, Jordan Spieth would pace the field on his way to capturing a green jacket.

It was all set up perfectly. Until it wasn't.

A historic back-nine collapse sent Spieth spiraling to a second-place finish Sunday at Augusta, as he carded a one-over 73 on his way to finishing two under overall. Spieth finished three strokes behind Danny Willett, who shot a five-under 67 to capture his first major championship.

Because this is 2016 and we know what the people want, let's just get the Crying Jordan Spieth'ing out of the way:



For Spieth, Sunday was a tale of two nines. The world No. 2 played his first nine holes at four under. He carded four straight birdies from Nos. 6-9, giving him a five-stroke lead over the field. At the time, it appeared we were headed for a redux of 2015. Most had already written off Spieth's competition—and for good reason.

Even the Twittersphere was ready to chalk things up:



Unfortunately, Spieth may have been better off if he played the back nine left-handed. Things started off poorly but not disastrously. Back-to-back bogeys on No. 10 and No. 11 brought him back to the field, with Willett's strong back-nine push getting him back within one of the lead. 

Even then things didn't appear that bad. Spieth was still pacing the field, still a stroke ahead of a 28-year-old Englishman who had exactly zero PGA Tour wins coming into this week.



Then things went off a cliff, splashed into a ravine and detonated a historic amount of dynamite as things blew up on No. 12. Spieth smacked his drive into the water, doubled up on the drink on his first drop shot, went bunker on his second drop and wound up two-putting once he got on the green. The seven gave him a quadruple bogey on the par three, rocketing him all...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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