UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. (AP) – One major apparently isn’t enough to satisfy Masters champion Jordan Spieth.
Spieth set the target Friday at Chambers Bay by surging into the lead with birdies, overcoming a double bogey that tested his patience and closing with a birdie during a chaotic final hole. He wound up with a 3-under 67 and a one-shot lead among the early finishers.
Not since Tiger Woods has anyone won the Masters and U.S. Open in the same year.
Spieth still has a long way to go, and he realizes it will only get harder on a course that already is perplexing. At times, it was even scary.
Jason Day, playing alongside Spieth, was doing his best to keep pace until a frightening finish to his round. Day was headed down to the ninth green – a drop of some 100 feet in elevation – when he fell to the ground and lay on his back for several minutes.