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Feb 11th, 2017
Jordan Spieth calms it down to take Pebble lead
Foggy, with a slight chance of autograph hunters....
Words: Florida Dayton Photography: Getty Images
There was nary an autograph hunter in sight at Spyglass as Jordan Spieth delivered a putting masterclass, setting the 36-hole clubhouse lead on the Monterey Peninsula in California.
Tournament organisers were frantically trying to get the tournament back on track after the opening round (suspended on Thursday because of heavy rain) was finally complete on Friday. Then the bloody fog came in forcing play to be suspendedon day 2. The second round is scheduled to resume early on Saturday, with sunny weather forecast for the rest of the weekend.
Spieth fired a seven-under-par 65 at Spyglass, one of three venues being used for this week's PGA Tour event, to post a 10-under total of 133 before play was halted with only 33 players back in the clubhouse.
Derek Fathauer was also at 10 under but had one hole to play at Pebble Beach while Australian world number one Jason Day was at nine-under with six holes remaining at Spyglass Hill.
"I have been striking it well," Spieth told reporters after ending his round at the par-four ninth with his eighth birdie of the day. "I've been trying to do a lot of work with the putter and we've got some pure greens out here at Spy.
"I started to roll some putts in, starting on our third hole of the day, number 12. So I got into a nice rhythm, the hole started to look big toward the end and I'm very glad to finish with a nice three.
"Conditions were all so totally different ... maybe because we got so much rain during the round yesterday," double major champion Spieth said of the switch from Monterey Peninsula Country Club to Spyglass Hill.
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