Jordan Spieth had high hopes for 2025, ready to turn a fresh, healthy page after battling wrist issues for nearly two years. But his return to competitive golf hasn’t gone exactly as planned. After wrist surgery last summer, Spieth made his long-awaited comeback at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am earlier this month, his first competitive round in over five months. However, things took a frustrating turn early on.
Spieth revealed at the WM Pheonix Open that he aggravated the wrist on his very first hole at Pebble Beach, saying, “I had to flick one and it jammed it pretty good, and it locked up on me for a little while. My wrist kind of hurt in the first round last week and I went away from all the work that I had been doing just to kind of manipulate what I could, and then I said, you know what, I just have to get through it,” Despite the pain, he pushed through and shot 2-under 70 in the first round, but the discomfort lingered.
But at the Genesis Invitational, he ended up missing the cut. His wrist gave him problems again there. “It’s been a tough week on the wrist. I wasn’t sure if I’d hit one more shot like my shot on 16 yesterday, I wasn’t going to finish the first round. I was OK to go today, but this cold, wet weather and third week in a row, it was not good for it,” Spieth said following a second-round 74 at Torrey Pines. Now, he’s back to try his luck for a win at the Cognizant Classic.
When asked about the patience it took to get back to the PGA Tour, he said, “I started as, maybe, a low- to mid-single-digit handicapper as I came back, and I needed to work my way about 15 shots better by the time I were to play a tournament, and that didn’t quite happen, but then it got better as the stretch went on. Yeah, it was a unique experience that I don’t wish upon anybody, and hope I don’t have to go through it again.”
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