Jordan Spieth looks to regain Masters magic one decade after Augusta win

AUGUSTA, Ga.— Jordan Spieth, one of the most popular players in the game, is trying to regain the magic at the Masters since winning a green jacket in 2015.Spieth was young and precocious back then.

He’s now a husband and a father of two with a third on the way.“Yeah, it was a different place in life for me than I’m at now,” Spieth said Wednesday.“But at the same time, it kind of all blends together here, too.

It can feel like it’s yesterday at the same time.It’s good memories, but I feel like I can grab another chance this week.’’Asked if he has a winning score prediction in mind for this week, Spieth said, “I think you stand on the first tee and sign for 3-under each day and you feel like you’re walking up the 18th with a lead or with a chance.”The annual Par-3 Contest on Wednesday of Masters week is considered by some fans more anticipated than the tournament itself.

Spieth, playing in his 12th career Masters this week, called it “full-circle” for him.“I used to play it with myself, Justin [Thomas] and Rickie [Fowler] and we were doing hole-in-one bets,” Spieth said.“I used to see [other players’] kids out there.

Man, that seems so far away.Now, I have two walking around with a third on the way.

It’s kind of crazy.”Both Thomas and Fowler, too, are married and are fathers.“It’s a special day,” Spieth said.“This place is unlike any other.

We don’t do this anywhere else.”Max Homa is struggling so mightily at the moment that his own caddie, Joe Greiner, split with him last week.Usually, when a player is struggling he’ll change his or her caddie in an effort to find something.“It was not my choice, so it sucked,” Homa said.

“But he always had a deal that we’re friends first and friendship mattered more than the work thing, and he was wise enough to do what he did.It’s hard.

I’m just so used to him caddying.“But I was happy that he did it, because I would rather, at the end of my days, that w...