However, heading into the Byron Nelson Championship past year, Bowditch was disqualified from the event leading into the tournament and had missed eight of 12 cuts in his 2015 starts prior to that.
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The first of two consecutive events in the Dallas Fort Worth region gets underway this week at the TPC Four Seasons Resort in Irving in the suburbs of Dallas where the AT&T Byron Nelson Championship is contested. Spieth is still the second-ranked golfer in the world and he’s only missed back-to-back cuts once in his career (last year at the Barclays then at the Deutsche Bank).
“I’m looking to get that back… definitely there’s some motivation there”. He believes his game is better than anybody else’s and he’s on his game and so it is better than everyone else’s.
Johnson is eighth in the world rankings.
“He’s separated himself and that bothers and motivates me”, Spieth said. “I probably underestimated [the effect of the surgery] … but, you know, it was my choice to play”.
The AT&T Byron Nelson tees off on Thursday, with all eyes on world number two Jordan Spieth.
The Byron Nelson has a tendency to crown odd champions, as many players who win here are rarely heard from again.
Spieth was the champion of The Masters golf tournament previous year, but he really wants to win at home. The 31-year-old is also coming off a personal-best display at TPC Sawgrass – tied for 28th.
“At the same time, if I can engage with my friends and family maybe, and kind of smile more, it’s only going to help me on the course if I’m approaching it like it’s just another round with friends”. In the last nine months, he has been paired with Spieth three times in the first and second rounds of a tournament and shot 10 strokes or better than Spieth.
During last year’s Nelson, Spieth hosted in his home tour players Justin Thomas and Patrick Rodgers, along with his caddie Michael Greller and Greller’s fiancé.
“I didn’t have great form coming into [the Byron Nelson] a year ago …”
His T4 at the RBC Heritage has him a third of the way there along that road and perhaps the two missed cuts and last week’s enforced break could turn out to be a blessing in disguise as DeChambeau has been on the go globally since the start of 2016.
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The AT&T Byron Nelson tournament will take place from May 19-22. The course played as a par 69 the final three rounds after the hard par-4 14th became an easy pitch-and-putt par 3 with a temporary tee box because of the flooding on the low-lying hole.
