Anticipating lots of questions about last year, Jordan Spieth hoping this Masters goes quickly

As you’ll recall, Jordan Spieth carried a five-shot lead into the back nine of the Masters last April. You’ll also recall he didn’t win the Masters, thanks in large part to a quadruple-bogey 7 on the par-3 12th after Spieth put two balls in Rae’s Creek.

Spieth, who has a win and two runner-up finishes in three career Masters appearances, knows he is going to get peppered with a lot of questions at Augusta National about what happened last year instead of wondering if he can continue his impressive Masters career trendline this year. For that reason, Spieth is looking forward to the year’s first major being done.

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“No matter what happens at this year’s Masters, whether I can grab the jacket or I miss the cut or I finish 30th, it will be nice having the Masters go by,” Spieth said Monday night during the draw for the Dell Technologies Match Play.

“The Masters lives on for a year. It brings a non-golf audience into golf. And it will be nice once this year’s finished from my point of view, to be brutally honest with you.”

Spieth won at Colonial in May, proving the stinging loss wouldn’t linger at the forefront of his mind for long. He won the Australian Open in November for the second time in three years, and he won in a rout at Pebble Beach this season.

Ideally, Spieth would like to again don the green jacket he had to present to Danny Willett last year. However, no matter what happens, Spieth just wants to get it done.

“It would be best if I could reclaim the jacket,” Spieth said. “But I believe that I’ll be back up there sooner or later, just the way that we play the golf course, the success we’ve had and the comfort level I have there. Whether it happens this year or not, but it will just be nice because that tournament, it’s a 365-day thing. There’s no other Masters.”

“It would be best if I could reclaim the jacket,” Spieth said. “But I believe that I’ll be back up there sooner or later, just the way that we play the golf course, the success we’ve had and the comfort level I have there. Whether it happens this year or not, but it will just be nice because that tournament, it’s a 365-day thing. There’s no other Masters.”