Spieth: Can laugh about Masters collapse now

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World No. 2 Jordan Spieth said Tuesday that he has moved on from his collapse last month at the Masters and is now getting his game ready for the U.S. Open in six weeks.

“I’m not taking it very hard,” Spieth told reporters at a FedEx Cares event in Pennsylvania. “I have ladies at grocery stores coming up and putting their hand on me and going: ‘I’m really praying for you. How are you doing.’ And I’m like, ‘My dog didn’t die, I’m doing OK.’ I’ll survive; it happens. It was unfortunate timing.

“Actually I laugh about it now. I really do. But it keeps coming up, and I understand that.”

Clinging to a 1-shot lead at Augusta National, Spieth put two shots into the water on the par-3 12th and made a quadruple-bogey 7. With that, he fell three shots behind and never caught up to eventual champion Danny Willett, failing in his bid to repeat as Masters champion.

In the aftermath of his collapse at last month’s Masters, Jordan Spieth said he heard from …

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