Jordan Spieth palms his driver to his caddy as he walks down the green on the ninth gap on the primary day of the FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tenn., on Thursday, August 15, 2024. Jordan Spieth stated he is excited to be again taking part in golf and that it is “all programs go” on his surgically repaired wrist as he prepares to make his season debut Thursday at Pebble Seashore.
Spieth made the feedback on Wednesday forward of the AT&T Pebble Seashore Professional-Am.
Spieth underwent surgical procedure on his left wrist in August after first sustaining the harm in 2023. Teeing off Thursday will mark his first aggressive spherical of golf since competing within the FedEx St. Jude Basic at TPC Southwind in Memphis on Aug. 15-18.
“Yeah, issues really feel actually good. I am very happy with how all the pieces’s gone. I get up, it is just a little tight nonetheless after placing it to make use of quite a bit the final couple weeks to attempt to prepare, nevertheless it’s nothing that may do any harm anymore. I simply loosen it up and it feels actually good,” Spieth informed reporters.
Spieth stated he initially deliberate to return earlier than this week however hadn’t gotten within the reps he felt needed to drag it off.
Pebble Seashore “was all the time going to be a great place to begin, and I bought a pair nice items of recommendation earlier than and through restoration and one in every of them was that nobody’s ever come again too late from a surgical procedure,” Spieth informed reporters. “So I type of took that to coronary heart. As a lot as I needed to only begin getting on the market, I am glad that I’ve waited until right here.”
He added that “ideally” he will not “take into consideration” the wrist in any respect this week.
“It’d take a short while, I am undecided, nevertheless it’s all programs go now and I am excited to be again. I do not really feel like I missed a lot as a result of I feel I solely missed — I possibly missed one or two occasions that I’d have performed in anyhow. It type of simply feels just like the begin to a brand new season, which I feel is an effective factor,” Spieth stated.
Spieth has three main wins and 13 general victories on the PGA Tour, however none for the reason that RBC Heritage in April 2022. He started the 2024 season with a third-place displaying at The Sentry and tied for sixth on the WM Phoenix Open, however he had just one extra top-10 the remainder of the 12 months whereas lacking seven cuts.
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