SPORTS Wednesday, April 5, 2017 East Oregonian Page 3B College Football Golf Ducks opening spring practice to the public Spieth looks to make new Masters memories after meltdown in 2016 By ANNE M. PETERSON Associated Press Oregon is trying something a little different for a few practices this spring: new coach Willie Taggart is welcoming the public. Oregon will practice in front of fans at Kilkenny Field on campus on Friday morning and Saturday afternoon, then again at Portland’s Jesuit High School on April 15. The Ducks warn however that inclement weather could force the open practices to be rescheduled. Taggart said Tuesday that he was excited to get started, joking it was like Christmas time. “I think we have some awesome kids here — I shouldn’t call them kids, but young men — that really want to win. And they really want to do it the right way,” he said. Taggart is taking over an Oregon team that finished last season 4-8 overall and at the bottom of the Pac-12 North standings at 2-7 — snapping a run of nine straight winning seasons in conference play. Three days after a loss to rival Oregon State in the final game of the season, Oregon dismissed coach Mark Helfrich. Taggart, head coach at South Florida for the past four years, was hired in December. Taggart guided South Florida to a 10-2 mark last season and a spot in the Birmingham Bowl. He is the first coach Oregon has hired from outside the school since 1976. The Ducks’ previous three coaches — Mike Bellotti, Chip Kelly and Helfrich — were assistants who were promoted. Kelly closed spring practices to the fans and media in 2012. This season fans could get a look at newly arrived freshman quarterback Braxton Burmeister, who enrolled in school early and will compete for the job with incumbent Justin Herbert, as well as Travis Jonsen and Terry Wilson Jr. Herbert threw for 1,936 yards and 19 touch- downs in eight games as a freshman last season. Taggart praised Herbert, who he said had a 4.1 grade point average for the winter term. “At the end of the day I want to see who can lead this football team, who can get this team to rally around him, and play for the quarter- back,” he said. “Each winning team out there, that’s what the quarterback does. It’s not just the offensive guys to rally behind him, but the defensive guys as well, the whole football team. I’m looking for the guy that can do that.” Oregon opens practice on Wednesday and the Spring Game is Apr 29 at Autzen Stadium. By PAUL NEWBERRY Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. — On a warm, sunny afternoon in Amen Corner, Jordan Spieth stepped up to No. 12 and stuck it right next to the flag. A year too late. “I really could’ve used that one 12 months ago,” Spieth quipped Tuesday, mustering a smile before heading over the Hogan Bridge to take care of a tap-in delivered with an Arnold Palmer-like flourish. The Augusta National patrons roared with laughter. But for anyone who takes a bit of self-deprecation during a practice round as a sign that Spieth has gotten over the green jacket that got away, think again. The sting is still there. You can hear it in his voice. “Certainly you don’t want to hold stuff in,” Spieth said. “That would be crazy.” If not for a meltdown at the shortest hole on the course, a mere 155 yards, the 23-year-old would’ve been talking Tuesday about his quest to become the first player to win the Masters three years in a row. Instead, he was reminiscing again about the biggest disap- pointment of his young, flour- ishing career. In 2016, Spieth made the turn on the final day with a commanding five-shot lead. He gave away some of that cushion with back-to-back bogeys at the 10th and 11th, but it was at the par-3 12th, the devilish little hole known as Golden Bell, that he lost the tournament . First, he splashed his tee shot into Rae’s Creek. Then, from the drop zone, he chunked another one into the water. Just like that, he was on the way to a quadruple-bogey 7 that ensured it would always be one of those Masters remembered more for how it was lost than how it was won. (In case you’ve forgotten, Jordan Spieth lines up his putt on the 14th hole during a prac- tice round for the Mas- ters golf tour- na- ment Tues- day, April 4, 2017, in Au- gusta, Ga. AP Photo/ Charlie Riedel the beneficiary of Spieth’s collapse was England’s Danny Willett , who is the first to acknowledge “it was a strange one last year.”) Back in December, when Spieth returned to Augusta National for the first time since that fateful day to play a round with friends, he was thinking about what happened on the last day of the Masters. When he played the 12th on Tuesday, in front of a large gallery but merely for practice, it was on his mind again. When the tournament begins, he expects more of the same. “It will surely be there and it has been there,” said Spieth, wearing a green shirt that would be a perfect match for the jacket he hopes to don again on Sunday. “It is one of the many tournaments I’ve lost given a certain performance on a hole or a stretch of holes. It happens in this game. I stepped up today, first day back with the crowds, and hit it to about (a foot away), which is nice. Obviously, it’s not the tournament.” While the 12th will always be a part of Spieth’s story at the Masters, his feel for this place is far more positive than negative. He’s played this tournament three times and never finished lower than second. This is where he captured his first major with a dominating 18-under score in 2015, sparking a run at the Grand Slam and one of the greatest years in golf history. Even the hole where it all fell apart has provided plenty of good vibes. Before the finale a year ago, Spieth had played The Masters • Thursday-Sunday • Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia • TV: ESPN (Rounds 1-2), CBS (Rounds 3 and 4) Golden Bell at 1-under through his first 11 rounds at the Masters, including three birdies. “I really thoroughly enjoy this place and this week,” he insisted. “I seem to have more fun each year when I play this golf course.” Spieth’s enthusiasm got more pronounced when asked specifi- cally what makes this course so appealing to him. “I like the elevation changes, the sidehill lies, the pull to Rae’s Creek,” he said, not even pausing for humorous effect. “It’s imaginative golf. It’s feel golf. I really enjoy that. When I go away from technical and toward feel, it’s an advantage for me.” He certainly looks like one of the players to beat this week, even though he ceded the No. 1 spot in the world rankings to Dustin Johnson . “I’m excited about the oppor- tunity ahead, which is now I can go back and really tear this golf course up ... really create more great memories on the back nine of Augusta,” he said. “If it happens this year, fantastic. I will do all I can to see all the positives and grind it out like we did in 2015. And if it doesn’t happen this year, then I’ll be ready the next year to do it.” When Spieth made that little joke Tuesday at the 12th, it felt like a cathartic moment. Yeah, it still hurts. 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