PGA Tour star Jordan Spieth shocks legendary commentator

Jordan Spieth has laid bare the gruesome extent of a wrist injury that forced him out of action on the PGA Tour for several months.

Jordan Spieth has revealed the ‘final straw’ which forced him to finally head for surgery after being plagued by a wrist injury for years. 

Spieth first injured his wrist in 2017 and decided not to have surgery to fully address the issue over fears that if it went wrong it could have ended his career.

Things got worse in May 2023 when the golfer ‘felt something pop’ whilst he was fooling about with his son Sammy.

Spieth tore the tendon sheath and, throughout the 2024 campaign, repeatedly felt it slipping out of place during competition.

The American told Jim Nantz in a Q&A – first reported by Golfweek – that he finally realised he needed to have surgery after last July’s Open at Royal Troon.

His tendon popped out before he hit his final tee shot and he knew it was time to get it fixed.

“I got it back in before I hit my tee shot, and that’s when I thought maybe that’s the last straw,” he told Nantz.

“[I thought] maybe we should probably do something about this. I don’t really feel like playing like this anymore.”

Spieth headed for surgery after bowing out of the PGA Tour‘s FedEx Cup playoffs at the first stage.

He finished his season with three top-10 finishes – a career low – and has fallen to No. 77 in the OWGR.

Spieth told Nantz that he was allowed to grip a putter eight weeks after going under the knife.

He was chipping and hitting Nerf balls at the 11-week mark.

His wrist still felt sore in December, he said, but then one day he ‘thing heeled’ a 6-iron and it ‘didn’t hurt’.