Jordan Spieth was hovering on the cut line Friday at Innisbrook with three hard closing holes in front of him.
The world’s No. 1 player was off the green, in the light rough, 35-feet from the cup at the par three 15th.
He made good contact, got his ball rolling and it would find the bottom of the cup for birdie — his third chip-in of the second round.
Spieth would go on to par the final three holes and shoot 68. That got him to two-over par, one better than the three-over cut-line.
He will go into the weekend seven shots off the lead shared by Will MacKenzie and Steve Stricker. But on the Copperhead course, no lead is safe.
Spieth called it a “slightly better than average round.”
“I’m not executing much better. Some simple shots I still didn’t make but my chipping was better.”
Spieth also had a first. On the fifth hole, he used the bottom of his wedge like a putter and holed it for birdie. “That’s the first time I’ve tried to belly a wedge in a tournament,” Spieth revealed.
