Jordan Spieth is on the mend following surgery to repair his injured wrist, according to a report in Golfweek on Monday. The three-time major winner expects to be fully healed and ready for start of the 2025 PGA Tour campaign.
“I think that by 2025, by Jan. 1, it’s my goal to be tournament-ready,” Spieth told Golfweek. “And for me, that would be not just going out and seeing how it feels, you know, but expecting to play at my ceiling.”
He added, “I would say the No. 1 reason why I ended up getting it done was because it affects my way of life at home. Like when it would dislocate and I couldn’t get it back in, it would happen when I’m getting my daughter out of the bath, I’m putting a sweatshirt on or it just so random that it was like, I didn’t want it to continue, and it happened more and more. And it wasn’t going to heal itself based on a number of different docs and scans and whatever. So it’s just inevitable.”
Now 31, Spieth will enter the new season at something of a career crossroads. At 23, Spieth owned three majors among his 11 PGA Tour wins. He also captured three additional worldwide victories, including a pair of prestigious Australian Open titles during this span. Entering the 2018 season, the then 24-year-old Texan was ranked No. 2 in the world and had already produced a Hall-of-Fame career. Spieth seemed headed for golf immortality. Yet, since claiming that third major title at Royal Birkdale in the summer of 2017, the week before his 24th birthday, Spieth’s prime years (24-31) have produced just two wins – the 2021 Valero Open and 2022 RBC Heritage.
Spieth’s 2024 campaign was particularly poor, finishing the season with more missed-cuts (5) than top-10s (3). In the four majors, where Spieth once dominated, he failed to produce even a top-20 finish. It marked the first time in his career that he entered all four majors and didn’t produce a top-10 result.
Spieth finished the season in the 66th spot in the FedEx Cup standings, which means he’s not yet qualified for any of the big-money signature events (Top 50) in 2025, such as the season-opener at Kapalua. As a past winner of the Masters (lifetime), British Open (age 55) and U.S. Open (10 year), Spieth is exempt into each of those three majors in 2025 (his 10-year U.S. Open exemption ends after this year). Also, as a member of the 2023 U.S. Ryder Cup team, he’s exempt into the PGA Championship as long as he remains ranked in the top 100 of the OWGR a week prior to the event. (He’s currently ranked 46th.)
Spieth Wins By Age
19 – 1
20 – 0
21 – 6 (2 Majors)
22 – 3
23 – 4 (1 Major)
24 – 0
25 – 0
26 – 0
27 – 1
28 – 1
29 – 0
30 – 0
31 – 0
