Watch: Jordan Spieth’s wild shot runs past a putting Patrick Cantlay

AUSTIN, Texas – Like Austin, the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play can be weird but this went beyond early upsets and dramatic finishes.

Cruising along at 3 up through 12 holes, Jordan Spieth took a familiar path at the par-4 13^th hole in his Day 1 match against Matt Fitzpatrick with a tee shot down the right side of the fairway. Unfortunately, his golf ball sailed a little too far right and bounced hard off a cart path before racing across the adjacent 15^th green.

“To that back left pin [at No. 13] it’s a no-brainer, you hit driver up there and you have a 50- to 60-yard pitch right up the green, and that wedge shot is just so difficult to the back left pin,” said Spieth, who won his match, 3 and 1. “You have 80 yards of room, as long as it doesn’t toe-drop in the water, any other position is fine.”

What Spieth didn’t see is that his ball raced across the 15^th green just as Patrick Cantlay was hitting his 11-footer for birdie.

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“It just kind of came out of the corner of my eye as I was taking it back, and I didn’t stop. I hit a good putt, actually, and I thought it would have broke,” said Cantlay, who won his match, 1 up, against Brian Harman. “That’s golf on Tour; weird stuff happens every day.”

Cantlay didn’t know whose ball it was that had caromed onto the 15^th green until after his round. “I’ll give him crap about it,” he smiled when informed it was Spieth.