{"id":106003,"date":"2025-07-30T22:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T22:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/106003\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T22:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T22:59:10","slug":"as-good-as-ever-jordan-spieth-eyes-playoff-run-predicts-big-things-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/106003\/","title":{"rendered":"As good as ever? Jordan Spieth eyes playoff run, predicts big things ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Making another Ryder Cup team was Jordan Spieth\u2019s \u201cloftiest goal\u201d at the start of this season.<\/p>\n

Spieth was coming off late-August surgery on his left wrist and likely out for the first few events of the season. When he ultimately returned to action at Pebble Beach in late January, Spieth was well behind the eight-ball in U.S. Ryder Cup points.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to this week\u2019s Wyndham Championship, and Spieth enters the regular-season finale at Sedgefield Country Club ranked 27th among the American hopefuls.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s something that\u2019s a perk of accomplishing the other goals that I\u2019m trying to over the next few weeks,\u201d said Spieth, who is also No. 50 in FedExCup points, easily into next week\u2019s playoff opener in Memphis but firmly on the bubble in terms of qualifying for the BMW Championship, and by virtue, all of next year\u2019s signature events. Six automatic selections are finalized after the BMW, while six captain\u2019s picks are named following the Tour Championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think if I\u2019m able to get on a good run and contend and have a few high finishes and maybe get a win or so, you know, I make a good case. But I\u2019m on the outside looking in. And it was going to be a tall task off of my season hurt last year and starting late this year \u2013 it was just going to be a lot to ask with majors being a huge part of my opportunities to make the team, just the majors this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving said that, experience does help, and I\u2019ve got maybe some guys in my corner if I start to show that good things are coming. \u2026 If I\u2019m making a run through East Lake, then I feel good about whatever happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spieth has played five straight Ryder Cups since his debut in 2014, going 8-7-3 \u2013 he\u2019s just 1-4-3 in his last two, though. He\u2019s also missed just one Cup since debuting at the 2013 Presidents Cup, failing to qualify for the 2019 Presidents Cup.<\/p>\n

Barring a high finish at The Open two weeks ago, Spieth was always going to tee it up in Greensboro, North Carolina. He took three weeks off after withdrawing from the Travelers Championship with a freak neck injury, which has since resolved itself, and also skipped last week\u2019s 3M Open following a T-40 at Royal Portrush. Also, prior to The Open, Spieth and his wife, Annie, welcome their third child, son Sully.<\/p>\n

During that time, Spieth, who owns four top-10s among eight top-25s this year, slipped from No. 38 in points to the last man currently into the siggys.<\/p>\n

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Tee times, groupings and how to watch the opening round of the Wyndham Championship.<\/p>\n

Even if Spieth got into six of the eight elevated fields this year, all but one of those via sponsor invites, he doesn\u2019t want to rely on going to that well for a second straight season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t like asking for exemptions this year at all,\u201d Spieth said. \u201cI was fortunate to receive a lot of them, but you just never know. And when you miss out on elevated events, the way it\u2019s structured, they\u2019ve got the best players in the world at all of them, and you don\u2019t want to miss any of them. It\u2019s a big reason why I\u2019m here. \u2026 It would be nice to have a huge boost this week and not have to worry about it next week, but I\u2019m fully prepared to have some stress next week on that 50 number, and ideally a good start this week or next week really takes a lot of that off.\u201d<\/p>\n

Either way, Spieth, encouraged about his future at age 32, left the media with this on Wednesday:<\/p>\n

\u201cNext year\u2019s going to be a really good year for me, I can feel it. It\u2019s all coming along. I\u2019ll be healthy, and just structurally putting, the mechanics are all getting really, really close. One good offseason should get me nailed down to where I could be as good as I\u2019ve been.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Making another Ryder Cup team was Jordan Spieth\u2019s \u201cloftiest goal\u201d at the start of this season. Spieth was…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":106004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-106003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114944669609311956","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}