article_snippet.sent: Having struck a professional here second shot 163 yards to within six feet of the pin, Spieth stood over Spieth ball on the 18th green.
article_snippet.sent: Spieth wasn’t going to three-putt from there, so whatever happened this would be the lowest 36-hole score in the history of the Masters.
article_snippet.sent: For the first time around Augusta, Spieth made a mild mis-step.
article_snippet.sent: Spieth walks off the 18th after carding a 66 to finish 36 holes at a 14-under 130 .
article_snippet.sent: Spieth leads Charley Hoffman by five strokes, matching the largest halfway lead in the Masters history .
article_snippet.sent: To shoot 14 under, the lowest two-round score at Augusta, and equal to the best 36-hole score recorded at a major championship, isn’t boring.
article_snippet.sent: As the tournament committee set out ever more fiendish pin placements in the next two days to preserve the dignity of the famous greenery, Spieth scores are bound to fall.
article_snippet.sent: This was his sixth round as a professional here and his worst score is level par.
article_snippet.sent: Spieth broke Raymond Floyd's 36-hole scoring record by a stroke and blitzed the first 36 holes .
article_snippet.sent: The record for birdies here stands at 25 from Phil Mickelson; Spieth already has 15.
article_snippet.sent: When Spieth shot 63 to win the Australian Open at Royal Sydney, the conditions were windy and inhospitable.
article_snippet.sent: Geoff Ogilvy claimed it may well have been the finest 18 holes of golf seen in Australia.
article_snippet.sent: Where do Spieth’s first 36 holes stand in the annals at Augusta?
article_snippet.sent: Ray Floyd played the previous best 36 holes
article_snippet.sent: — 13 under par — in 1976.
article_snippet.sent: Spieth now has that record, as well as that of the youngest player to hold the 18-hole lead.
article_snippet.sent: Spieth recovers from among the trees at 13, and Spieth caddie Michael Greller has to hand it to his caddie Michael Greller (below)
highlights_snippet.sent: Spieth set a new Masters scoring record with a 14-under 130 through two rounds at Augusta National .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: This was Spieth's sixth round as a professional here and a professional here worst score is level par .
  