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Stricker shares lead at Innisbrook as Spieth makes cut
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PALM HARBOR, Fla. (AP) — Jordan Spieth holed three shots from off the green and made the cut with one shot to spare Friday in the Valspar Championship.Now he has to figure out how to catch up to Steve Stricker and Will MacKenzie.Stricker, playing for only the fifth time this year, holed out from the 10th fairway for eagle and made a 60-foot birdie putt across the fourth green for a 5-under 66 that gave him a share of the lead with MacKenzie, who had a 67.They were at 5-under 137, one shot ahead of Bill Haas (67), Graham DeLaet (66) and Daniel Berger (68).Spieth is just happy to be joining them. He opened with a 76 and was in danger of missing the cut, especially when the wind began to pick up just as he was starting his second round on the Copperhead course at Innisbrook.And then he hooked his tee shot on the par-5 opening hole into a bush, had to take a penalty shot and made bogey on the easiest hole on the course.“I’m walking off that green going, ‘Oh, boy. We can either somehow flip this one around today or ... I don’t want that to be the key of me not being able to be here for the weekend.’ I thought it was really strong what we did after that,” he said.Nearly five hours later, after he nearly holed a bunker shot on the 17th to save par, Spieth exhaled on the 18th tee and said with a smile, “This was grinding today.