Mongoose, cobra fight it out during golf tournament

IRVING — Jordan Spieth says he has never felt undue pressure to win his hometown AT&T Byron Nelson. The tournament he grew up attending at the TPC Four Seasons Las Colinas with his dad. The event in which he tied for 16th at age 16, catapulting himself into the national spotlight. The tournament with the Dallas-headquartered title sponsor that Spieth endorses. The hometown-pressure storyline seems debatable, especially now, but the look of dismay on Spieth’s face and the disgust in his voice after he shot 75 Friday and missed the Nelson cut made it clear that this wasn’t just any old day of bad golf. “I made five bogeys in the round through my first 12 holes, which is just ridiculous out here,”

J.J. Spaun shot a 6-under 65 on Friday at breezy TPC Summerlin to take the lead in the suspended second round of the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. Spaun rebounded from a bogey on the par-4 third with birdies on the par-4 fourth and par-3 fifth and closed with a birdie on the par-5 ninth to get to 11-under 131. “I think we were just real deliberate on our numbers out there,” Spaun said. “It’s super swirly, windy. … Out here you’ve got so many undulations around the greens and you’ve got tight hazards next to the pins and the greens, so it’s crucial to get the right number, and we did that well today. That kind of set us up for having a bunch of looks out there.” Kelly Kraft was second