Jordan Spieth reveals when he first ‘messed up’ his wrist, says ‘some bad habits’ worsened it

After months of complaining of a nagging injury, Jordan Spieth finally underwent surgery to resolve his wrist injury last month. The golfer went straight into the treatment after his season ended at the FedEx St. Jude Championship. Following this, the 31-year-old has now come out to reveal how he ‘messed up’ his wrist back in 2017-18.

Spieth is currently waiting to make a return after a successful procedure. He joined Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz on SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio on Wednesday and talked about his injury. Speaking about the injury, the 2015 Masters champion stated that he initially suffered the injury while training in late 2017. However, he admitted to ignoring it. The 13-time PGA Tour winner said he fell into ‘some bad swing habits’ which caused further damage.

Spieth, who hasn’t won a major championship since 2017, said the condition worsened over the years. The golfer pulled out of the AT&T Byron Nelson in May 2023 after the injury crisis became unbearable.

Talking about the duration of his injury, Jordan Spieth said, as quoted by Golfweek:

“You know, technically this wrist I messed up training back in like late ‘17, beginning of 2018. And I didn’t get it fixed maybe then and I kind of got into some bad habits and then as I started to swing it better a few years ago it started to kind of act up again.

And then ultimately, I had an incident last May, a little over a year ago when I was with my son in the pool and I was just kind of getting out and something popped and I couldn’t move it. I had to withdraw from the Byron the next week.”

Jordan Spieth is fresh off wrist surgery, as he begins the process of working his way back to form.

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