Jordan Spieth describes 18th hole as 'dumb' on day two of US Open
Last Updated: 20/06/15 7:11am
Jordan Spieth hit out at the decision to change the par at the 18th hole after putting himself on course for a second consecutive major victory on the second day of the US Open.
The Masters champion is bidding to become only the sixth man in history, after Craig Wood, Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods, to win the first two majors of the year.
The world No 2, who claimed the clubhouse lead adding a 67 to his opening 68, can also become the first player since Gene Sarazen in 1922 to win multiple majors aged 21 or younger.
Starting on the back nine, Spieth birdied the 10th, 14th, 15th and 17th - he also three-putted the driveable 12th for par after missing from two feet - before losing his composure while running up a double-bogey six on the par-four 18th.
There's a group of about 10, 12 guys that can fly it 310 yards that have an entirely different hole to play there.
Jordan Spieth
The 21-year-old hit the lip of a bunker with his second shot and found more sand with his third, and was heard on television complaining about the "dumbest hole I've ever played in my life".
The 18th was played as a 617-yard par five in the opening round, and Spieth said: "I think 18 as a par four doesn't make much sense. Of course at the moment when I didn't hit the right shots it's going to make less sense.
Dumb Hole
"You can hit it down the left centre of the fairway and still end up in the right bunker in trouble. There's a group of about 10, 12 guys that can fly it 310 yards that have an entirely different hole to play there. For anybody else you have to hit it in a five or six-yard area.
"So all in all I thought it was a dumb hole today, but I think we're going to play it from there again, so I've got to get over that."
Spieth led from start to finish when winning the Masters in April, setting new 36 and 54-hole scoring records and becoming the first player ever to reach 19 under par at Augusta National.
"I'll probably draw a significant amount off it (although) it's playing different and I'm in a very different position," he added. "I'm not going to have a four, five-shot lead.
"I know that it's going to get tougher and tougher now that Saturday and Sunday hits. So I'll draw some on Augusta, but at the same time my patience level has to be even that much higher. I'm not quite putting myself in the same positions off the tee, so I've got to be a little more methodical.
"At Augusta I was kind of finding fairways, hitting it on the green and I was making everything. That would be nice here if I could do that, but it's a harder golf course than the Masters played this year."
