Jordan Spieth enjoys the warmer weather as he ramps up his return from wrist surgery at this week’s Cognizant Classic in Palm Beach Gardens, FLA.
Spieth said Tuesday that he decided to play in the event for the first time to thaw out and test his fitness on the challenging track at PGA National Champion Course.
“Yes, we came from a deep freezing in Dallas last week, and we decided it was enough,” said the three times the big winner. “I’m happy to be here.”
Spieth underwent surgery in August on his left wrist, which disturbed him at least May 2023. He returned to action at AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and then bound for the fourth at the WM Phoenix Open in Scottsdale, Ariz. the average at Genesis Invitational.
“I missed the first month of the season. I was just not ready to play any of these events yet. And it was really nice to come back and then even get into battle for a week,” he said.
“My goal now, when we look at the champions, is to try to play difficult golf courses and work me in battle and just see what I can improve when we come to Augusta.”
Spieth talked a long way about his recovery period and admitted that there is still more work to be done.
“It was a unique experience that I don’t want anyone, and hope I don’t have to go through again. But I had a fantastic team around me that, you know, I had directions in place that, you know, what could have been An eight -week recovery, was pressed into 12, which was transformed into really 16 before full tag, for no other reason than just letting everything heal and remove 1 percent the chance that something bad could happen.
“… It’s not normal. I don’t wake up in the morning and my two hands feel the same thing in any way. But when I get started, the idea is that when I have taken on the first hole, I don’t think about it all day, And I could do it for the most part in the last three weeks. Had similar operations, that is normal, and about the year’s mark is when they really started to forget it.
Spieth, who is a 13 o’clock winner on the PGA Tour, has slipped to No. 70 in the official world gol. His last title came on RBC Heritage in April 2022.
Spieth, 31, is facing an unknown course this week.
“I can’t remember the last time I played an event I hadn’t played before,” he said.
“You have to drive the ball, obviously, exact, but tough golf courses in the wind at Bermuda, that’s kind of what I grew up on.”
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