Jordan Spieth is sidelined from tour action until 2025 as he recovers from left-wrist surgery to repair a nagging sub-sheath injury that caused his tendon to dislocate, but that hasn’t stopped the 13-time PGA Tour winner from actively supporting his charitable endeavors.
The Crush It! Cup took place earlier today at Brookhaven Country Club in the Farmers Branch suburb of Dallas. Junior golfers, mostly middle-schoolers, earned their spots in the 36-player field based on their performance in a two-month-long golf marathon fundraiser, a nationwide campaign held at 140 of country club owner and operator Invited’s clubs in 26 states. Invited, formerly known as ClubCorp, is the largest owner and operator of private membership clubs with 20,000 peak-season employees and 400,000 members. Spieth hosted the event, offered some coaching tips, and had a blast doing it.
“It was nice to get a junior golf perspective of the game. You get so tied into it being a job that it’s always nice to go out see what it’s really like as a game to these kids. It brought back good memories,” Spieth, who has partnered with Invited since 2022 and is an investor as well as a brand ambassador, said.
Long before Spieth became a three-time major champ, a PGA Championship away from the career grand slam, he was developing his club swinging acumen at Brookhaven, Invited’s first ever club. Joey Anders, a PGA Class A pro who was Spieth’s coach at the time, still helms Brookhaven’s youth golf instruction program and was on hand for the event.
“It was good to catch up with him. He’s a good man, he’s very selfless and he loves the game of golf, loves working with these kids—it’s a passion. It was nice to pick his brain about some of the kids he has now. He was saying he’s seeing a swell similar to the crew we had growing up,” Spieth related.
So, if you do the math, these seventh and eighth graders could be fresh-faced Texan golf stars contending on the top tour by the mid-2030s.
