AUGUSTA, Ga.

Don’t feel sorry for Jordan Spieth because he had to put the green jacket on Danny Willett right after throwing away the Masters.

At least he was wearing one himself.

Spieth was in no mood for consolations, and even a month away from golf might not be enough time to find perspective.

Spieth would do well to consider three other collapses on the back nine at Augusta National.

Ed Sneed in 1979 had a three-shot lead with three holes to play, bogeyed them all and lost in a playoff. Greg Norman’s six-shot lead was down to two at the turn in 1996 when he made bogey on Nos. 10 and 11, and then found Rae’s Creek in front of the 12th in the same manner as Spieth. He knew the safe shot was over the bunker until that evil voice in his head told him at the last second to cut it toward the right pin.

Not to be forgotten is Rory McIlroy, who started the back nine with two holes that were as damaging as Spieth’s one bad swing. McIlroy took triple bogey on No. 10 and four-putted the 12th hole, dropping the same number of shots — six — as Spieth before getting to the 13th tee.

What makes those three players stand out is that none has a green jacket.

Norman has a pair of claret jugs from the British Open, but Augusta National haunted him. McIlroy lacks only the Masters to complete the career Grand Slam, and even though this was only his second try, it’s starting to weigh on him.

Spieth wanted desperately to take that jacket back home to Dallas, and he nearly pulled it on. More painful than a place in golf history was how he abandoned the very traits that made him so tough in the majors — discipline, patience, smarts.

He paid a steep price.

Spieth had to settle for a silver medal instead of a green jacket. He went to Butler Cabin for ceremony, not celebration. And then he had to attend the trophy presentation on the 18th green and help Willett into the jacket a second time.