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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – Bill Murray was doing his usual things.
And Jordan Spieth was doing Jordan Spieth things.
Including one dangerous thing.
On another grand day on the Monterey Peninsula, where sunshine regularly broke through numerous clouds, the temperature was comfortable and the breezes soft, Pebble Beach was in all of its glory Saturday and home to the celebrity field in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
Leading the party was Murray, who was wearing a dark blue golf glove on the left hand, a bright yellow glove on the right hand. He played to and with the thousands of spectators rimming the course, dropping more jokes than shots taken. He posed for numerous pics, signed a bunch of autographs, even led a rendition of “Happy Birthday” for a fan named Michele.
In other words, the Ghostbusters star was his entertaining self.
But it was the ever-captivating Spieth who took over the stage at one point.
On the side of a cliff.
“I just saw the blimp shot from overhead and it really bothered me,” Spieth said after the round of a shot he hit on the par-4 eighth hole that had hearts racing.
Spieth was inching his way back into the tournament with birdies on his first two holes and then an eagle from three feet on the sixth when he became must-see TV.
His tee shot on the uphill eighth came perilously close to going over the cliff, the ball winding up about two feet from the edge. After studying his options, Spieth spurned his caddie’s wishes to take a drop away from the danger and elected to go for the green by taking the direct route over the cliff.
Trouble was that his left foot was close enough to the cliff’s edge that one slip could prove disastrous, a 100-foot plunge to the bottom in front of him.
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Many feared Spieth was tempting death.
“This is a scary shot normally,” CBS analyst Colt Knost said setting up the shot. “But this is downright terrifying.”
With his balance in question, and with dread in the…
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