Jordan Spieth said he’s excited to be back playing golf and that it’s “all systems go” on his surgically repaired wrist as he prepares to make his season debut Thursday at Pebble Beach.
Spieth made the comments on Wednesday ahead of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
Spieth underwent surgery on his left wrist in August after first sustaining the injury in 2023. Teeing off Thursday will mark his first competitive round of golf since competing in the FedEx St. Jude Classic at TPC Southwind in Memphis on Aug. 15-18.
“Yeah, things feel really good. I’m very pleased with how everything’s gone. I wake up, it’s a little tight still after putting it to use a lot the last couple weeks to try to get ready, but it’s nothing that can do any damage anymore. I just loosen it up and it feels really good,” Spieth told reporters.
Spieth said he originally planned to return before this week but hadn’t gotten in the reps he felt necessary to pull it off.
Pebble Beach “was always going to be a good place to start, and I got a couple great pieces of advice before and during recovery and one of them was that no one’s ever come back too late from a surgery,” Spieth told reporters. “So I kind of took that to heart. As much as I wanted to just start getting out there, I’m glad that I’ve waited till here.”
He added that “ideally” he won’t “think about” the wrist at all this week.
“It might take a little while, I’m not sure, but it’s all systems go now and I’m excited to be back. I don’t feel like I missed much because I think I only missed — I maybe missed one or two events that I would have played in anyways. It kind of just feels like the start to a new season, which I think is a good thing,” Spieth said.
Spieth has three major wins and 13 overall victories on the PGA Tour, but none since the RBC Heritage in April 2022. He began the 2024 season with a third-place showing at The Sentry and tied for sixth at the WM Phoenix Open, but he had only one more top-10 the rest of the year while missing seven cuts.
–Field Level Media
