‘Felt like a big, big shift:’ Jordan Spieth details swing change post surgery
Jordan Spieth is finally healthy after dealing with a nagging wrist issue since 2018 — and he returns to the PGA Tour this week at the 2025 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am with a retooled swing.
The three-time major champion had wrist surgery back in August. Once medically cleared, Spieth went to work tweaking a key part of his swing. Having months to get back in the lab did Spieth some good as he made a simple but necessary tweak to his swing that he hopes will allow him to rediscover his old form.
“I was able to work on some things in the swing kind of in a way that I hadn’t worked on them since I was 13 years old, where I had this time, this wet concrete to try to mold some things, get out of some bad habits,” Spieth said Wednesday during his pre-tournament press conference. “That’s still a work in progress, but I made a lot of progress in the couple months that I had to do it.”
The change?
Spieth needed to slightly alter a part of his backswing to help improve a wedge game that has slipped of late.
“It was kind of needed to fix — honestly, it’s my hand path, how I used to carry the club steeper, going back with my hands kind of traveling a little bit deeper,” Spieth said. “So doing that and then combining that with what’s necessary to turn it around to line it up at the ball. I had gotten high hands, hands that dragged on a lot longer. So a lot of my wedge play, some of my finesse shots and stuff suffered. You could still drive the ball well doing that because you have enough time to make up for it. It was mainly that, which, to me, felt like a big, big shift. In reality, if you slow it down on video, you probably see a shift, but it probably wouldn’t look that crazy to the naked eye. Little adjustments for us feel crazy big.”
