Jordan Spieth shows there’s rarely a dull moment with his game at The Players

Jordan Spieth wouldn’t mind a boring day at the office. Those are rare with him, and Thursday at The Players Championship was no exception.

By the time he played six holes of the opening round, he already had an eagle, birdie, par, bogey and a double bogey on his card. Wild cheers when he holed a bunker shot. Groans when he pulled a tee shot into the water.

It added to a 2-under 70, a reasonable start on a course that takes as quickly as it gives, and Spieth can do that on just about any course. He is still finding his way back to some level of normal coming off surgery on his left wrist last August that kept him out for five months.

“I feel like I’d like it to be boring,” he said. “I’m still not at the place I want to be and just trying to work my way there. So when that happens, there’s going to be volatility.”

And there was plenty of that.

He got off to what he called a “dream start,” hitting wedge to a foot for birdie on the 10th hole. On the par-5 11th, his bunker shot from just short of the green two-hopped into the hole for an eagle, and just like that he was 3 under through three holes.