Jordan Spieth explains what he did at The Masters in 2014 which he’d never done in a tournament before after advice from his caddie

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Jordan Spieth has enjoyed a fantastic career on the PGA Tour, with three major championship wins among his achievements.

Spieth has been asked about the career grand slam in the aftermath of The Masters, with Rory McIlroy having achieved that feat at Augusta.

McIlroy has become one of six players to win the career grand slam, with Spieth just one title away from joining them.

The American has won The Masters, the US Open and The Open Championship, but has yet to triumph at the PGA Championship.

His best-ever finish at that event came in 2015 when Spieth finished second, three shots behind champion Jason Day.

What Jordan Spieth did at The Masters in 2014 which he’d never done before

That was the same year he won The Masters and the US Open, with Spieth having finished T2 on debut at Augusta in 2014.

He has now looked back on that narrow miss for The Masters YouTube channel, saying of his final round: “I was leading through seven and then I lost two two-shot swings on eight and nine and I remember playing the fourth hole.

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“Number four out there is such a monster of a hole. I hit it in the front of this bunker on the upslope. Earlier in the week I had told my coach, I had been struggling on the upslopes of these bunkers, dumping some of the long shots.

“It is a shot you don’t see very often when you are on the upslope of a bunker and have to carry it a decent way.

“But I had been struggling. I was either dumping them or was at the ball more than I wanted to. I was trying to hit them with my lob wedge, because I hit mostly every shot around the green with my lob wedge.

“He said why don’t you just try hitting this with your 52 degree, take a little bit of the pressure off of the actual strike and your hands are good enough, you will figure out how far that is going to fly.

“I worked on that shot randomly, not for that hole, but at Augusta you can have that shot in quite a few places.

“On that one you have to fly that ridge without flying the pin from the upslope of the bunker and I went in with a 52 degree.

“I had not hit that shot in a tournament with a 52 degree in my life. And I holed it. I remember walking off that green being like I might actually win this thing today!”

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Spieth was remarkably only 21 years old when he won the green jacket just a year after that near miss to Bubba Watson, which he secured via a four-shot win.

Phil Mickelson and Justin Rose took joint-second at Augusta National, with legendary figure Tiger Woods having helped Spieth win The Masters.

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He posted scores of 64, 66, 70 and 70 for a total of 270 and 18-under, having also held a four-shot lead after 54 holes.

This time around at Augusta he wasn’t quite as successful, but still posted a respectable T14 finish as McIlroy emerged victorious.