Jordan Spieth hits a shot earlier this month on the FedEx St. Jude Championship.
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Jordan Spieth says a surgical procedure to his left wrist “went easily.”
Through a 54-word message posted to his social media channels on Saturday, the three-time main winner stated he underwent the process final week. Two weeks in the past, after he completed his PGA Tour season on the FedEx St. Jude Championship, Spieth stated he would have the work achieved, although he was gentle on specifics, saying docs must “recreate the tendon” in his left wrist “so it doesn’t dislocate,” and that the timeline for his return to golf is roughly three to 4 months, or roughly in time for the start of the 2025 PGA Tour season.
Beneath is Spieth’s full Saturday be aware:
“I had a process on my left wrist final week, as I had talked about was the plan. The operation went easily and I’m grateful for the distinctive medical staff and help of Annie [Spieth’s wife] and my household.
“Centered on relaxation and rehab, and I stay up for returning to golf wholesome and ready for 2025!”
Work and uncertainty, in fact, are forward. Wrists are integral to golf. In Spieth’s case, his left one has been bothersome for some time, and his outcomes can at finest be thought of honest in that point.
In an article revealed to GOLF.com earlier this month, Alan Bastable detailed Spieth’s damage journey this fashion:
Spieth’s final PGA Tour victory got here 28 months in the past on the RBC Heritage at Harbour City. The 2-plus years since have been marked by highs (T4 on the 2023 Masters; one other near-win on the RBC; his standard short-game wizardry); lows (14 missed cuts and a disqualification); swing adjustments (his face is way extra shut on the high than it was in his 2015 prime, an adjustment Brandel Chamblee stated in January was “one of many extra baffling issues I feel I’ve seen since I’ve been sitting on this chair for 20 years”); and, maybe most impactfully, nagging points along with his left arm and wrist that he has been preventing to various levels since he chipped a bone in his left hand in 2018, an damage that he later admitted he’d by no means correctly addressed.
For years, Spieth didn’t converse a lot of his situation; he was reluctant to make use of it as an excuse. However over time, the problems that got here with it grew to become not possible to disregard. In Might 2023, Spieth withdrew from the Byron Nelson, in his hometown of Dallas, citing acute ache in his left wrist. He performed within the PGA Championship at Oak Hill per week later however nonetheless wasn’t proper.
In October of that 12 months, within the wake of the Ryder Cup, Spieth reaggravated his wrist once more whereas lifting a toaster at his residence. “I wasn’t doing something both time that I damage it that ought to have brought about what occurred,” Spieth stated the next month of the 2 flare-ups. After a number of assessments, docs recognized him with ulnar nerve harm. In the end, some medical readability. “It makes me assume, staying on high of this I can get to structurally doing what I must be doing to be at my finest,” Spieth stated then.
Spieth spent the offseason attempting to heal, present process bodily remedy as much as 4 instances per week. On the first occasion of the 2024 season, the Sentry, Spieth was requested how his wrist was feeling. “It’s good,” he stated. “It’s not a lot the wrist, it’s type of up within the arm and managing that. The wrist was type of simply what took the autumn from some ulnar nerve stuff.” He added, “I might say from December on it’s been actually stable, I’ve been on the fitting path.”
And but the wrist continued to bother him — and his recreation.
After a promising begin to the season (third in Maui, T6 in Phoenix), Spieth started to battle, lacking cuts on the Gamers, Valspar and Masters. Per week after the Masters, on the RBC, Spieth described his damage to the AP as “a come-and-go factor,” including, “I may oddly sufficient twist within the incorrect method getting off the bottom, and I couldn’t play tomorrow. However I may play the following day.” He added, “the ulnar facet of the wrist is tough to heal.”
In Spieth’s 11 begins because the Masters, he hasn’t registered a single top-20 end. He has dropped to thirty ninth on the earth and 63rd within the 2024 FedEx Cup standings, as this week he prepares to play within the remaining regular-season occasion of the 12 months, the Wyndham Championship, in Greensboro, N.C. Spieth is mathematically assured a spot within the FedEx high 70 that may advance to the primary spherical of playoffs in Memphis, however he’ll want a powerful end there to climb into the highest 50 who get by to the second playoff occasion, the BMW Championship, and punch their tickets into subsequent season’s Signature Occasions. For a participant who received three majors earlier than he turned 24, Spieth has a lot at stake over the following two weeks.
“It’s not hurting,” Spieth, now 31, stated Tuesday in Greensboro when requested about his wrist, “however subconsciously it’s laborious not to take a look at the numbers and assume this isn’t a coincidence.”
On the Wyndham, Spieth missed the minimize after rounds of 67 and 71, and per week later, he tied for 68th within the 70-player area on the FedEx St. Jude occasion, ending his season and beginning him on the trail towards surgical procedure and rehab.
“I wish to assume hopefully I’ve 10 to fifteen years of prime and a few of my finest golf left,” Spieth stated forward of the Wyndham, “so I’ll be optimistic concerning the course of.”
