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Even with a personal victory at Augusta National’s par-3 No. 12 – his first Sunday birdie in five tries – Jordan Spieth could feel victimized by the famed Golden Bell in the final round of the 82nd Masters Tournament.
That’s because Patrick Reed, playing four pairings behind Spieth, trumped his heralded competitor. Converting a 22-foot putt for birdie, Reed not only helped soften the roars that had been filtering back down the fairways, but he also regained a lead that he would not relinquish.
True, the birdie Reed would make at the par-4 No. 14 would provide the one-stroke margin of victory over Rickie Fowler – who also birdied No. 12 in his second-nine 32 – with Spieth two back. But you could make a case that the iconic No. 12 was the crucial hole on Sunday, as it so often is.
This is the hole about which the famed New York Times columnist Red Smith wrote: “It is a pretty suburb of purgatory.”
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Even with a personal victory at Augusta National’s par-3 No. 12 – his first Sunday birdie in five tries – Jordan Spieth could feel victimized by the famed Golden Bell in the final round of the 82nd Masters Tournament.
That’s because Patrick Reed, playing four pairings behind Spieth, trumped his heralded competitor. Converting a 22-foot putt for birdie, Reed not only helped soften the roars that had been filtering back down the fairways, but he also regained a lead that he would not relinquish.
True, the birdie Reed would make at the par-4 No. 14 would provide the one-stroke margin of victory over Rickie Fowler – who also birdied No. 12 in his second-nine 32 – with Spieth two back. But you could make a case that the iconic No. 12 was the crucial hole on Sunday, as it so often is.
This is the hole about which the famed New York Times columnist Red Smith wrote: “It is a pretty suburb of purgatory.”
But none of that seemed to bother the
lanky lad as he prepared for the 2018 championship, which was contested
for a second time on the highly regarded Teeth of the Dog course at the
Casa de Campo resort in the Dominican Republic. “Just playing in this
tournament so many times, and playing well, makes me believe that I can
win it,” Ortiz said before the competition began. “I feel confident, and
I feel comfortable.”
The younger brother of PGA Tour professional Carlos Ortiz, he certainly played that way, starting with a 6-under par 66 that left him in first place with a three-shot lead over five others. After a second-day 72 put him back in a tie for 2nd, he rode a 70 on Saturday to sole possession of 1st place. Remarkably, that marked the 6th time he had held or shared the overnight lead in the five years he had played in this tourney.
Ortiz lost that lead on the front nine of Sunday’s final round, though, after Luis Gagne of Costa Rica scorched the seaside track with a 32 that took him to 10-under as Ortiz posted a 1-under 35 that left him a shot behind. After making pars on 10 and 11, the Mexican made an eagle-three on the 12th and followed that with a birdie on No. 13, hitting a wedge into that wind-whipped green stiff and then tapping in his putt. That tied him with Gagne at 12-under, and Ortiz was able to stay in that position when he parred 14, 15 and 16.
After he hit a 6-iron onto the green of the par-4 16th, Ortiz says he noticed on the leaderboard that Gagne had bogeyed No. 17, a dramatic 4-par running along the Caribbean and set up to play at just 287 yards. That meant Ortiz was once again in the lead, and he played that hole brilliantly, hitting a mid-iron off the tee and then leaving his short approach mere inches from the cup. A birdie there, and another on the par-5 18th, which he reached in two, gave him the LAAC title he had long pursued, and that trip to Augusta next spring.
The younger brother of PGA Tour professional Carlos Ortiz, he certainly played that way, starting with a 6-under par 66 that left him in first place with a three-shot lead over five others. After a second-day 72 put him back in a tie for 2nd, he rode a 70 on Saturday to sole possession of 1st place. Remarkably, that marked the 6th time he had held or shared the overnight lead in the five years he had played in this tourney.
Ortiz lost that lead on the front nine of Sunday’s final round, though, after Luis Gagne of Costa Rica scorched the seaside track with a 32 that took him to 10-under as Ortiz posted a 1-under 35 that left him a shot behind. After making pars on 10 and 11, the Mexican made an eagle-three on the 12th and followed that with a birdie on No. 13, hitting a wedge into that wind-whipped green stiff and then tapping in his putt. That tied him with Gagne at 12-under, and Ortiz was able to stay in that position when he parred 14, 15 and 16.
After he hit a 6-iron onto the green of the par-4 16th, Ortiz says he noticed on the leaderboard that Gagne had bogeyed No. 17, a dramatic 4-par running along the Caribbean and set up to play at just 287 yards. That meant Ortiz was once again in the lead, and he played that hole brilliantly, hitting a mid-iron off the tee and then leaving his short approach mere inches from the cup. A birdie there, and another on the par-5 18th, which he reached in two, gave him the LAAC title he had long pursued, and that trip to Augusta next spring.
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