Jordan Spieth: My left wrist feels 'twice the size' each morning

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jordan Spieth will be chasing golf history this week at the PGA Championship at less than 100% as he looks to become the seventh player to win the career grand slam.

The three-time major champ looks to be back in golfing form following off-season wrist surgery, but admits it’s not perfect.

“My left feels twice the size of my right for about a half hour every morning,” Spieth said on Tuesday. “They say that stops about a year post-op, some days are better than others. I haven’t exactly given it a lot of rest in the last few months.”

On the golf course, Spieth is looking to add the final piece of the grand slam puzzle to his resume here at Quail Hollow after winning both the Masters and U.S. Open in 2015 and the Open Championship in 2017.

“When I’m golfing, I haven’t really been thinking about it the last couple of months,” he said of the wrist recovery.

“It’s still there, very much so. I’m still aware, but I’m not worried about the same thing happening anymore thanks to the doctors that I’ve had and their rehab process that I went through. It was a lot of hard work. Last fall and into the winter, physically and mentally, it was one of the hardest things that I’ve had to do.”

Before the surgery, Spieth’s injured wrist would dislocate at times during rounds, not ideal for a golfer and luckily something not on his mind as much at this point in his recovery.

“Less and less as the year has gone on, which is great,” Spieth said of worrying about it. “It’s hard to tell if it was preventing anything that I could or couldn’t do, so I’m not going to say that it’s everything. But just the ease of not worrying about it dislocating, I guess, or subluxing, I think, is the term for this specific, is really nice.

“Just off the course, I’m able to pick my kids up and throw them around, and my wrist doesn’t dislocate. You can imagine that’s a good feeling.”

With his game trending in the right direction after a fourth-place finish at the Byron Nelson two weeks ago and 14th at the Masters last month, Spieth is tempering expectations despite the chance to make golf history this week.

“I didn’t expect this year to be a ridiculous year,” he said. “It’s going to be something that I needed to work slowly towards with a long-term outlook, and I think it’s going really well so far. I’ve got a big stretch and a lot of good opportunities coming up and a lot less distractions on it than I had last year.”