Jordan Spieth’s decision-making clouded by debilitating heat

Extreme heat has been the norm for a lot of the nation this summer time, however situations are completely sweltering in Memphis this week.

According to the PGA Tour’s meteorologist, temperatures hit 94 levels on Friday at TPC Southwind, with a heat index of 110 — a document for the season.

It’s so sizzling that Harris English’s caddie, Eric Larson, needed to obtain medical therapy midway by way of the spherical, and a spectator took over as English’s bagman. English described it as the most well liked climate he’s ever encountered.

“I grew up in south Georgia and this is the hottest, muggiest day I’ve ever had on the golf course,” he mentioned.

Tournament chief Lucas Glover estimates he drank a bottle of water per gap. And he’s looking for his caddie, too.

“I told [my caddie] on the 12th tee, I said, I know you don’t like to, but I need you to drink some water today for me,” Glover mentioned after his spherical. “Then walking off the 2nd tee, I go, you still sweating? He goes, yeah, why? I said, just making sure. He goes, you don’t have to worry about me. I said, well, I kind of do, and I’m going to.”

Jordan Spieth, who’s one shot behind Glover’s lead, mentioned after his spherical that the heat affected his decision-making potential on the course.

“I just kind of felt like I was foggy in some of my decisions,” he mentioned. “Like I type of felt like, man, what was I considering hitting that membership there once I may have hit this one. Like I used to be making an attempt to — I simply stepped up, grabbed a membership, and I used to be so anxious about it being dry after which swiftly I’m over the ball and I’m like, what am I doing right here.

“I had a couple of those that — specifically on No. 12 and No. 15, a couple wedge shots from the fairway that both went long left when I could have taken some spin off and hit it lower,” he continued. “But that was kind of it. Everybody is dealing with it. I just got a little lazy with my decisions today.”

When pressed on the subject of his decision-making, Spieth dug a bit deeper.

“No. 3 was probably one of the worst decisions I made,” he mentioned. “Michael was all over, this isn’t the shot, this isn’t the shot, and I was like, I think I can pull this one off. And then I hit it, and I’m like, yeah, I can’t really hook that out of this rough into this wind. After that I was like, all right, if I just — I’m playing well enough. Just stop making the bad decisions and we’ll go under par from here. So it was nice to be 1-under from there even though it was a weird way of getting there.”

A Texas native, Spieth isn’t any stranger to sizzling climate, however he mentioned Friday’s situations have been particularly troublesome.

“My shirt made me weigh five more pounds today,” he mentioned. “I’m humbled. It’s just a different kind of heat. But it felt like it was just coming off the ground. Like you could just feel the water coming off the ground. I’ll bring two shirts from now on and change at the turn because that was — I was struggling a bit early in the round. I had some goosebumps — it was something that shouldn’t happen. I just was taken aback a little bit.”

A heat advisory stays in impact on Saturday, and there seems to be no respite on the horizon. Saturday has an anticipated excessive temperature of 91 and a “feels like” index of 105-109 levels.

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