Jordan Spieth was once a big name in the world of golf. However, now, things do not seem to be turning out very well for him. The 31 YO clinched a trophy for the last time at the RBC Heritage on April 17, 2022, defeating Patrick Cantlay. It is almost going to be three years that he has been winless.
And by the pace he is leading the 2025 season, things do not seem to be turning the other way around soon. He began his season debut this weekend with the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and does not have too much scope for improvement. While he began the first round with a 2-under, the next two rounds went wrong.
Opening the second round with a bogey, he finished at an even par, and in the third round, he even carded a double bogey, finishing with a disappointing 7-over! That’s how sad he has been playing. He is tied with Max Greyserman at 77, and with only eighteen holes remaining, he does not have much chance of redemption. But what comes more shocking is a currently revealed stat about the 2015 FedEx Cup champion.
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Spieth Legion on X account revealed, “An incredible stat brought up by @ryan_7283. If Spieth doesn’t do it next week in Phoenix, it will be a calendar year without finishing within 12 shots of the winning score.”
An incredible stat brought up by @ryan_7283
If Spieth doesn’t do it next week in Phoenix, it will be a calendar year without finishing within 12 shots of the winning score.
— Spieth Legion (@SpiethLegion) February 1, 2025
While Jordan Spieth was once optimistic about being able to make a comeback soon, his current performance does say otherwise. And the stat has left his fans all the more worried.
Jordan Spieth’s 2024 season didn’t go as planned, thanks to a nagging wrist injury that held him back on the course. The three-time major champ struggled to find his usual rhythm, and it wasn’t until the British Open that he realized he had to make a change. Turns out, he’d been dealing with the injury since 2023, but it was a particularly painful episode at Royal Troon that pushed him to take action. After getting knocked out of the FedEx Cup playoffs, Spieth opted for surgery and has been focusing on recovery ever since. He’s been pretty open about the tough road back, including the pain he felt even with simple swings.
One of his fans, defended him, saying that the wrist injury might have caused all the problems. They wrote, “That wrist is like a silent killer for a golfer. You think about it on every swing. Even when you’re not thinking about it, our brilliant brains protect us from pain, so the swing naturally changes: less lag, less interaction with the turf, you want your wrist a bit more bowed at impact, so you see a lot more right to left spin… hence Spieth missing left more often… and now hitting a draw more often.”
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That was not all with people defending his performance on the course. One of them even mentioned, “Which is around when all the wrist stuff started after Sentry last year . I am giving him a few months to get settled back in with that wrist as a wrist injury can’t be easy to come back from”.
However, not everyone was on the same side. One of them even said, “Cuz his iron game is trash.” Well, why would they not? He has dropped down to the 138th position in Strokes Gained: Approach to Green, with a stat of -0.204. Additionally, his game has not improved much at Pebble Beach either.
Last year, Jordan Spieth did card all rounds of under-par, that’s true. But he could not fair well enough to even make it to the top 25. The American professional finished with a T39 at the 2025 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. And this year, instead of making a redemption, he just got all the worse. Taking to this, one of them wrote, “Well this week has been disappointing by all measures. Looks the same as last year. Guess some patience needed.”
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Jordan Spieth, who has a record of winning thirteen times on the PGA Tour, which includes three major golf tournaments: the Masters Tournament (2015), the U.S. Open (2015), and the Open Championship (2017), has currently dropped down to 77 on the OWGR list. As sad as it might sound, his being a part of the Signature events too is probably because of his gameplay back in his late 20s. Taking to this, one of them asked, “Is he even in the field. His world ranking is near 80”.
Jordan Spieth is in dire need of a comeback if he wishes to continue enjoying the name that he has garnered for himself through the years. Do you think he will be able to do it soon? Let us know in the comments section below!
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