Jordan Spieth mentioned 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 every thing’s gone. I get up, it is slightly tight nonetheless after placing it to make use of loads the final couple weeks to attempt to prepare, but it surely’s nothing that may do any harm anymore. I simply loosen it up and it feels actually good,” Spieth instructed reporters.
Spieth mentioned he initially deliberate to return earlier than this week however hadn’t gotten within the reps he felt crucial to drag it off.
Pebble Seashore “was all the time going to be a very good place to begin, and I acquired 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 instructed reporters. “So I form of took that to coronary heart. As a lot as I wished 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 would take a short time, I am undecided, but it surely’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 believe I solely missed — I perhaps missed one or two occasions that I’d have performed in in any case. It form of simply feels just like the begin to a brand new season, which I believe is an efficient factor,” Spieth mentioned.
Spieth has three main wins and 13 total 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 exhibiting 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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