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AUGUSTA, Ga. -- It's difficult to explain the weather this week at Augusta National. Someone asked me on Friday what it was like, and I couldn't properly put it into context. It's both hot and cold, sunny and cloudy, windy and still, dry and wet. Frankly, it's been a weird week.

Scores have reflected it. On Thursday, the average score was over 74. On Friday, that rose to over 75. Only four players were under par. Danny Willett explained why the weather has been so tough.

"It's brutal out there," he told Sky Sports. "You get the crosswinds, and they've put a few of the flags on some naughty little shelves. To try and hit it closer enough to have a reasonable look at a birdie chance is very, very hard. Then if you get it the wrong side of the ridge, to two putt becomes very, very hard.

"You're going to see a lot of four- or five-footers that people have got to hole with probably a ball or two of movement plus a little bit of wind and the greens firming up and getting quicker. It's just really, really tricky out there and it's only going to get trickier."

Bryson DeChambeau agreed with Willett's last point.

"Speed of the greens," he answered when asked what surprised him. "That's one thing that I didn't know was going to happen. I didn't know how quick they were truly going to get."

It's why this is the second-highest cut line (150) we've seen since 1990. It's why we saw only four red numbers (Daniel Berger, Troy Merritt, Dustin Johnson and Rory McIlroy) on Friday. It's why there were no rounds in the 60s for the first time since 2007.

It's not going to get easier. Here's the current weather report from Augusta.

A chilly start, then sunny, breezy and cool. Low: 44 degrees High: 66 degrees Winds: NW 10-15 mph in the morning, increasing to 12-18 mph and gusting to 25 mph from midday into the afternoon.

So basically, the same but colder. Awesome. To me, all of this favors Jordan Spieth.

"You're just going to have to be tentative putting down[hill] and accept that it's a par hole and par is that good of a score," Spieth said. "You're going to be coming off greens, I imagine, tomorrow, if you make par, pretty pleased. This has now gone to very much a U.S. Open-style of play, on challenging greens."

A U.S. Open in which you have to mentally grind out pars and bogeys where you can get them? Yeah, Spieth does that better than anyone else in the world. Still, with 32 players within six of the lead, anything can happen. Bring on the carnage.

Friday was rough on the stars. (USATSI)
Friday was rough on the stars. (USATSI)