This has been a badly-needed offseason break for Jordan Spieth, who we last saw swing a golf club in mid-August at the FedEx St. Jude Championship. Spieth finished tied for 68th that week, bowing out of the FedEx Cup Playoffs and doing so (mostly) happily. He needed surgery. ASAP.
That was the acronym he used. “I’m going to get operated on ASAP,” Spieth said. “We’ll go through the process from there.”
That process was “recreating the tendon” in his left wrist that offers stability to keep it from occasionally dislocating. For years he has battled repeated pain at the bottom, contact-point of the swing that ultimately pushed some doubt into his swing. “Anything that impacted the ground was not a good situation for me,” Spieth said in August.
Yeah, [the wrist is] good,” Spieth said. “Everything’s gone according to plan. I’ve been kind of hitting on a ball count the last couple weeks and then I got the full go this last weekend. The weather’s been good here in Dallas, I’ve been at it the last, well, really, I hit Nerf balls for a while so I could work on some mechanics and not have the contact.
“Now I have zero restrictions. It feels good. None of the shots, you know, I don’t really have any problems with it. No pain, no anything. So now it’s kind of just taking care of it, continuing to do therapy probably through the new year, and just be prepared to go start playing some golf and be prepared to play three weeks in a row. I think that’s kind of the next step is actually getting out and playing, which will be fun. It’ll be a little rusty to start for sure.”
