Jordan Spieth makes worrying admission just before start of PGA Championship
Jordan Spieth is still feeling the effects of the wrist injury that ended his 2024 season and has now made a concerning revelation with the PGA Championship teeing off on Thursday
Jordan Spieth has admitted he still feels pain in his wrist of a morning in the lead up to the PGA Championship. However, the 31-year-old remains positive that it won’t impede his quest for the illustrious career Grand Slam.
Spieth underwent wrist surgery in 2024 and is currently enjoying a significantly less stressful life both on and off the course following a protracted struggle. Despite his newfound appreciation for his physical well-being, Spieth can’t overlook the ordeal he’s endured.
Addressing the media before teeing off at Quail Hollow on Thursday, he also shared a concerning revelation, that upon waking each day, his left hand is twice the size of his right, reports the Mirror US.
Quizzed about the influence of his wrist issue on his mental game, Spieth, who has yet to win the PGA Championship in his storied career, said: “Less and less as the year has gone on, which is great.
“It’s hard to tell if it was preventing anything that I could or couldn’t do, so I’m not going to say that it’s everything. But just the ease of not worrying about it dislocating, I guess, or subluxing, I think, is the term for this specific, is really nice.
“Just off the course, I’m able to pick my kids up and throw them around, and my wrist doesn’t dislocate. You can imagine that’s a good feeling. So when I’m golfing, I haven’t really been thinking about it the last couple of months.
“I wake up in the morning, I’m very aware I had surgery. My left feels twice the size of my right for about a half hour every morning.
“They say that stops about a year post-op, and it’s getting… some days are better than others. I haven’t exactly given it a lot of rest in the last few months, and I’m sure that will help once we hit the off-season.
“It’s still there, very much so. I’m still aware, but I’m not worried about the same thing happening anymore thanks to the doctors that I’ve had and their rehab process that I went through.
“It was a lot of hard work. Last fall and into the winter, physically and mentally, it was one of the hardest things that I’ve had to do.”
He continued: “Anybody who’s come back from an injury, you want to be out there doing more and more and more, especially when I – it’s not like I was top five in the world last year, right? I felt like I was going to be coming from behind, and I wasn’t able to do much while other guys were getting better.
“So just a hard, hard process to be patient with, especially for me. It tested every bit of what I could do, and I went by the book. By the time I was able to play, I think I played well and was kind of in contention in Phoenix, and I was just like, man, I am just incredibly grateful just to be back out here doing this because there was months where you’re going through the process wondering if or when that would happen again.
“I didn’t expect this year to be a ridiculous year. It’s going to be something that I needed to work slowly towards with a long-term outlook, and I think it’s going really well so far. I’ve got a big stretch and a lot of good opportunities coming up and a lot less distractions on it than I had last year.”
