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Spieth looking forward to get through this Masters

FILE - In this April 10, 2016, file photo, Jordan Spieth waits to putt at the 18th green during the final round of the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga. Two weeks before the Masters begins, Spieth is looking forward to it being over. Spieth was on the verge of becoming only the fourth player to win back-to-back at Augusta National when he took a five-shot lead to the back nine. He dropped six shots over the next three holes, including two balls in Rae's Creek on the 12th hole for a quadruple bogey, and wound up three shots behind Danny Willet. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
FILE - In this April 10, 2016, file photo, Jordan Spieth waits to putt at the 18th green during the final round of the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga. Two weeks before the Masters begins, Spieth is looking forward to it being over. Spieth was on the verge of becoming only the fourth player to win back-to-back at Augusta National when he took a five-shot lead to the back nine. He dropped six shots over the next three holes, including two balls in Rae's Creek on the 12th hole for a quadruple bogey, and wound up three shots behind Danny Willet. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File) FILE - In this April 10, 2016, file photo, Jordan Spieth waits to putt at the 18th green during the final round of the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga. Two weeks before the Masters begins, Spieth is looking forward to it being over. Spieth was on the verge of becoming only the fourth player to win back-to-back at Augusta National when he took a five-shot lead to the back nine. He dropped six shots over the next three holes, including two balls in Rae's Creek on the 12th hole for a quadruple bogey, and wound up three shots behind Danny Willet. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

By Associated Press 3 min read

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Two weeks before the Masters begins, Jordan Spieth is looking forward to it being over.

Spieth was on the verge of becoming only the fourth player to win back-to-back at Augusta National when he took a five-shot lead to the back nine. He dropped six shots over the next three holes, including two balls in Rae’s Creek on the 12th hole for a quadruple bogey, and wound up three shots behind Danny Willet.

As the Masters looms, Spieth has been fielding more questions about that collapse on the back nine.

“No matter what happens at this year’s Masters, whether I can grab the jacket or I miss the cut or I finish 30th, it will be nice having the Masters go by,” Spieth said Monday night during the draw for the Dell Technologies Match Play.

“The Masters lives on for a year. It brings a non-golf audience into golf. And it will be nice once this year’s finished from my point of view, to be brutally honest with you.”