During the third round of the AT&T Pebble Beach pro-am on Saturday, Jordan Spieth hit his drive to the edge of a cliff on the 8th hole at Pebble Beach.
Instead of taking the penalty, Spieth went up near the edge of the cliff and hit the ball.
It was a 65-feet drop below, not for those terrified of heights.
" ... It was like, 'Well if I can get a swing on it and I can hit it then why would I take a drop?' You're never over ... a 65-foot cliff. So it's an unusual situation, normally if you're walking into a hazard, you see a ball, you hit it out. [Caddie] Michael [Greller] hated it. He tried to talk me out of it three times. I don't blame him, looking back. I'm just glad I made the par to make it worth it because I don't think I would have made par with a drop, but if I made bogey it would have really not been worth it...
I was almost sitting there going, 'Is it worth it because, yes, I can get a strike on it, but am I going to back up out of fear and just kind of thin this in the water, you know, like kind of top it' So I was just kind of trying to weigh it for a minute and Michael ... continued to try and talk me out of it, I was just trying to, I was just trying to think clearly, like, what are the options here.
If I felt like I was in real true danger of losing my life if I would have pulled the ball back and dropped it. It wasn't quite that severe. But it was enough to where I certainly couldn't put a normal swing or shot on it."
After seeing the overhead shot, he says it bothered him because it probably upset his wife.
He said “I just saw the blimp shot from overhead and it really bothered me. So I can't imagine while she was watching that live.”