By now, nothing Jordan Spieth does on the golf course should shock us. The good, bad and ugly are to be expected every time he tees it up. Spieth would not know a boring round of golf if it came up and smacked him in the face.

Still, Friday’s second-round stumble at the Sony Open was legitimately shocking, even by Spieth standards. After grabbing a share of the first-round lead with an almost-squeaky-clean 64 at Waialae, Spieth found himself in need of an 11-foot birdie putt at the par-5 18th just to make the cut on Friday. Yes, you read that correctly: to make the cut.

As you could have probably guessed, that 11-footer did not fall, Spieth early-walking the poor stroke in disgust before cleaning up his par for a five-over 75. The 11-shot difference between Thursday and Friday put him at one-under for the tournament, one shot off the cut line. It was the second-worst round of the day at Waialae, one that featured just one birdie and six bogeys. He needed 34 putts; this, just one day after he ranked sixth in the field for strokes-gained/putting. Spieth hit only six fairways and went 11-for-18 on greens in regulation. Even his scrambling, which often gets him out of a jam, was ugly, with the three-time major champion going 1-for-7 in that category.

The below clip just about sums it up:

As does this one: 

Per the PGA Tour, Spieth is the first player to hold a share of the lead after Round 1 and then miss the cut since Matt Every did it at the 2020 Arnold Palmer Invitational. For Every, an extremely volatile player in more ways than one, his 65-83 performance that week at Bay Hill was very on-brand. Yes, Spieth can be volatile, too, but first-to-worst displays rarely come from a player of his calibre.

Making the MC extra painful is the fact that Spieth sounded confident after his opening 64, a headspace he hasn’t found himself in all that much since 2017. Even in wins at Valero (2021) and at Harbour Town (2022), the when’s-this-going-to-go-wrong feeling was present. He said himself on Thursday that he felt he could “shoot five or six-under each day out here,” before essentially predicting what was going to happen on Friday.

A cut-missing 75 less than 24 hours after this pump-up speech of sorts certainly can’t be great for the confidence. Knowing Spieth, though, he’ll probably go out and win in his next start, rendering all of it moot.