In terms of pure entertainment, few players in the history of golf rival Jordan Spieth. Whether he’s striping shots from the edge of cliff or so deep in the Florida underbrush he’s about to stumble on a moonshine operation, the most reliable thing about Spieth’s game is it’s unreliability. Have a gander at his first and third round scorecards from this week’s Players Championship if you don’t believe us.

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That’s more shapes than a high-school geometry test, but Spieth’s artistic scorecard only tell part of the story. On Friday, the human rollercoaster found himself marooned in the pine straw, needing to hack it out lefty to escape. As the wind picked up on Saturday, things got even hairier for Spieth, who arrived at the par-5 16th with five birdies and four bogies to his name. His drive found the middle of the fairway, but it all came unglued moments later when Spieth pulled out his fairway metal and attempted to go for the green in two. His shot splashed well short and right, and Spieth gave in his intrusive thoughts, whipping his club halfway to Tallahassee. Taking it away, king.

Spieth would go on to double bogey the hole, and although he managed to find dry land on 17 and 18, par-ing his way home with the help of a round-the-world lip-in on 18, the damage was done. The water ball took Spieth from a respectable one-under to a disappointing one-over, nine shots of back of the pace. That’s likely too much to make up on Sunday, but tune in early anyway, because win, lose or implode, the Master of Disaster is always must-see TV.

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