Jordan Spieth says it's 'frustrating' to not be able to talk about mud balls at Masters

Jordan Spieth was not lone conscionable letting it alert connected the play people astatine Augusta National this weekend, but astatine the podium too. 

Spieth, 31, said helium dealt with mud balls during his 2nd and 3rd rounds, and claimed that the organizers of the Masters don’t similar the mud balls being discussed publicly. 

"My robust play killed maine the past 2 days and, to beryllium brutally honorable with you, it was chiefly mud balls," Spieth said, via the New York Post aft his circular connected Saturday.

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Jordan Spieth putts from the 16th greenish during the archetypal circular of the Masters Tournament connected April 10, 2025.  (Peter Casey-Imagn Images)

"It’s conscionable truthful frustrating due to the fact that you can’t speech astir them here. You’re not expected to speech astir them."

"Mud balls tin impact this tourney significantly, particularly erstwhile you get them a batch connected 11 and 13. They’re conscionable daggers connected those 2 holes."

Spieth had varied results connected the 11th and 13th holes. Spieth birdied the 11th spread successful the archetypal circular and past changeable par connected the archetypal portion of Amen Corner implicit the adjacent 3 rounds. 

On the 13th hole, Spieth bogeyed the spread successful the archetypal and 2nd rounds but birdied the spread successful the 3rd and 4th rounds. 

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Jordan Spieth chips to the tenth greenish during the 2nd circular of the Masters Tournament astatine Augusta National Golf Club connected April 11, 2025.  (Michael Madrid-Imagn Images)

Augusta National is already capable of a hard people to play with a bully lie. Add successful the wrinkle of a mud ball, and robust shots connected the famed people person different added grade of difficulty. 

"There’s similar little (mud balls) than normal, but I inactive had them contiguous connected those holes. I had them (Friday) connected those holes," Spieth said. "It’s thing to wage attraction to for definite for person groups, due to the fact that you conscionable person to play truthful acold distant from occupation oregon laic up erstwhile you’d usually spell for it, conscionable random stuff, due to the fact that it volition impact it significantly. And if you’re connected the incorrect broadside of the hole, you’re either successful the h2o oregon you astir can’t marque par depending connected what spread it is."

"Look, it’s mowed into the grain. The shot is digging successful connected each shot. A batch of times you person it connected 75% of your drives."

Fox News Digital reached retired to Augusta National for comment, but did not get an contiguous response. 

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Jordan Spieth lines up his putt connected the No. 7 greenish during the 2nd circular of the Masters Tournament astatine Augusta National Golf Club connected April 11, 2025.  (Grace Smith-Imagn Images)

The 2015 Masters champion made his 12th vocation commencement astatine this year’s Masters and finished successful a necktie for 14th spot arsenic helium was 3-under par for the tournament. 

Spieth hardly made the chopped connected Friday, arsenic helium was 2-over-par aft 2 rounds and conscionable nether the cutline, but helium turned it astir by going 5-under implicit the weekend. 

Rory McIlroy won the Masters and completed the expansive slam aft helium defeated Justin Rose successful a playoff. 

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