PGA Tour Cognizant Classic offers Jordan Spieth Big Test for wrist

Spieth, a three-time major winner, currently occupies 70th place in the world.

Palm Beach Gardens -Jordan Spieth’s only trip through the demanding champion course at PGA National was 16 years ago for a junior tournament. Otherwise, he is not familiar with part of the country, which he calls “professional male golf Mecca”.

When the three-time big winner from Dallas escaped the 30-degree weather and continued his surgically repaired left-wing wrist, he called his trainer to inquire about the knowledge of his classic knowledge in the Palm Beaches debut.

The 31 -year -old Spieth asked Cameron McCormack how his game fits the course.

“He says, ‘I think it’s a great fit,” said Spieth on Tuesday, about 12 hours after his arrival in “Golf’s Mecca”. “You obviously have to drive the ball precisely but hard golf course in the wind. Bermuda (grass), as I grew up.

“He thought it was really good, so everything came together in 12 hours.”

Spieth, who has completed three events in the past six months, packed for the Sunny South Florida for his first crack at The Champ since his semi -finals of the Polo Golf Junior Classic in 2009.

“I remember that I played it because it is a bear of a golf course for teenagers,” said Spieth, words … we think.

A bear for teenagers and adults … including professional golfers.

The 31 -year -old Spieth is here for two reasons: The wrist injury influenced its 2024 season and prevents it from qualifying for the signature events 2025, and he needs repetitions.

So he chose the tournament that he admits, “I’ve never looked at”, mainly because of the place where it fell into the schedule.

“I also play a little catch -up … and Südflorida sounds good,” he said.

Jordan Spieth gives every field of star power

Spieth is one of the players who bring Star Power to a field whether he number 1 in the world – as for 26 weeks in 2015 and 2016 – or in his current rank # 70.

Spieth is not a stranger to fall out of the top 50. During his well-documented long-term slump, he spent several weeks nearby after winning the 2014-15 10 events during a three-year route.

With his game in recovery, he got back into the top 10 in mid -2023, but began to slide again after he was injured for the first time in May this year.

Spieth tore a vagina that holds the tendon in place, but it was said that ice and adhesive tape would be sufficient. Then he promised the same wrist in autumn 2023 and called it “accidentally” and a “non -contact violation”.

Soon afterwards the wrist would jump out by chance and he would just step in again.

“I started just clicking on the command, and that’s not a good thing,” he said. “I would hold it down here and just shake it, and it would assume that I couldn’t turn my hand at full speed. It was a very strange deal.”

Strange enough that after the St. Jew championship in August he decided to repair it and undergo surgery to repair the tendon.

Make sure that he did not return to the PGA tour too early

Spieth said that one of the best advice he received after the operation was: “Nobody ever came back from an operation too late.”

He said he took that to heart.

And although the initial inactivity was not difficult to know that he would need time to heal, it got nervous after about 16 weeks. What helped until then was that the tour was the case and it was not bombarded with tournaments.

Spieth’s first event after the operation was in the Pebble Beach Pro-am Pebble. He tied 69th place. Then he defied all expectations with a T4 in Phoenix before missing the cut in Genesis two weeks ago.

“Maybe I started a medium to medium-digit handicaper when I came back,” he said. “I had to work better with 15 shots if I should play a tournament. That didn’t quite happen, but then it got better than the route continued.”

Now there are a few days better than others. The wrist hurts every day when it wakes up, but it gets better when it hits golf balls. And he believes that this could linger about another six months before it is completely healed.

He is not sure how it will react as soon as he loads his schedule. In the immediate future, he knows that he will be at the player championship at TPC Sawgrass in two weeks, but he is not sure that Arnold Palmer Invitational in Bay Hill next week. It could start through the Cognizant Classic or a sponsor exemption.

“If I have to stop, I’ll stop a little,” he said. “I just have the feeling that it goes through strength. I have no pain, it just gets tight.”

The navigator of the champion course and for this matter has some help. Two of his closest friends, Justin Thomas and Rickie Fowler, live in Northern Palm Beach County.

“I just didn’t spend much time in this area at all, which is very surprising because it is such a professional Golf Mecca for men between all the boys who live here, all the big golf courses, obviously this tournament,” he said. “So you have everything here.”

Tom d’Angelo is Senior Sports Columnist and Reporter for the Palm Beach Post. It can be reached at [email protected].

Recognizing classic in the Palm Beaches

Thursday Sunday, champion course, PGA National

TV: Thursday, 2 p.m., Golf; Friday, 2 p.m., Golf; Saturday, 1 p.m., after NBC at 3pm; Sunday, 1 p.m., to NBC at 3 p.m.

Defender Champ: Austin Eckroat

Tickets: Daily bundred tickets are available for every day. Tickets are dynamically price, so fans are encouraged to buy the lowest available price at an early stage. Visit TheCognizantClassic.com/tickets.

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PGA Tour Cognizant Classic offers Jordan Spieth Big Test for wrist

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