Golf superstar Jordan Spieth defied his sense of fear, and almost gravity, with a “downright terrifying” shot from the edge of a cliff at Pebble Beach.
Lining up for his second shot on the par four eighth hole during the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, things suddenly became a bit scary.
The 2015 Masters champion and former world No.1 found himself less than a metre away from falling 70 feet (21 metres) into the Pacific Ocean.
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With his front foot on a downward slope into the chasm – and a serious chance that if he wobbled when he took his shot, he would fall in – Spieth instead ended up sending the ball just past the green.
“This is a scary shot normally, but this is downright terrifying right now,” CBS analyst Colt Knost said on the broadcast.
“I went over and took a stance and yeah, it’s scary.”
But telling his caddie Michael Greller he didn’t want to take a drop, Spieth took the daredevil shot successfully.
“That is one that he will remember for a long while,” analyst Ian Baker-Finch said.
“Let’s hope he’s not suffering from vertigo or anything when he gets close to that cliff.”
Nick Faldo added: “Are you going to go for that? No way you’d stand there and play that … oh my goodness.”
It was worth it in the end for Spieth, because he made par.
“It’s so weird because if you can normally see the ball, like I never had a situation where you can see a ball, get a swing on it, but you’re not going to play it,” Spieth said after his round.
“So it was just kind of weird because it was like, well if I can get a swing on it and I can hit it then why would I take a drop? Like just whenever, you’re never over, I guess I saw a 65-foot cliff. So it’s an unusual situation, normally if you’re walking into a hazard, you see a ball, you hit it out. …
“I’m just glad I made the par to make it worth it, because I don’t think I would have made par with a drop, but if I made bogey it would have really not been worth it.
“But yeah, I mean it was, I was more like, it was more of a nervous and adrenaline hitting it and then when I got to the green as I was walking there it was more of like an anxiety feeling afterwards, luckily it wasn’t before.”
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