PGA Tour star Jordan Spieth to caddie Michael Greller: "I can't do this"
Jordan Spieth has revealed just how bad his wrist injury truly was after the PGA Tour golfer and multiple major champion had surgery.
PGA Tour star Jordan Spieth has revealed the true extent of a wrist injury that has plagued him for several years.
Spieth's season came to an end at the FedEx St. Jude Championship in August.
He immediately announced that he was heading for surgery and the three-time major champion likely won't be back in action until December at the earliest.
Spieth explained earlier in the season that the tendon sheath on his left wrist was torn and wouldn't hold it perfectly in place.
He has persevered but in truth his results have been far below what he expects and demands of himself.
In the majors, Spieth's best finish came at The Open in July when he finished in a tie for 25th.
He missed the cut at The Masters and wasn't a factor at the PGA Championship or U.S. Open.
In a call with PGA Tour Sirius XM radio, Spieth explained that he actually damaged his wrist in training around seven years ago.
Then, last May, he aggravated it whilst he was playing with his son Sammy in the pool.
Since then it has been a 'come-and-go' problem.
"Technically this wrist I messed up training in late 2017, beginning of 2018," Spieth said.
"And I didn't get it fixed maybe then and I kind of got into some bad habits and then as I started to swing it better a few years ago it started to kind of act up again and then ultimately I had an incident last May a little over a year ago when I was with my son in the pool.
"I was just kind of getting out and it popped and I couldn't move it and I had to withdraw from the Byron Nelson the next week.
"It's been kinda something this year where that dislocation has happened 20-some odd times since February and it started happening more and more."
He continued: "It was something that wasn't going to fix itself with rest and unfortunately so that's why I had to do this [have surgery].
"Hopefully this cleans everything up from, you know, from that original incident.
"It didn't bother me much on the golf course but it would happen sometimes within an hour of teeing off a couple of different times but I was able to put the tendon back in place.
"So it was one of those things where I was like, this isn't sustainable.
"But there was one day, it was the Friday of the John Deere this year, where I actually texted Michael [Greller, to say] it came out last night and it hasn't come back in overnight, I can't do this and I gotta go get this thing fixed now.
"So that Friday of the John Deere I was calling it quits. It was an afternoon tee time and I actually ended up getting to the range about 15 minutes before my time and I actually got it in and I just said let's see what happens here this week and I can reassess after if I play The Open."
Spieth said after he played the final men's major of the year he knew he was destined to go under the knife.
The injury has also meant that for the first time since 2012 he won't be involved in the forthcoming Presidents Cup.
Spieth's teammate and partner for Team USA, Justin Thomas, was also the surprise omission from the team.
Team USA captain Jim Furyk attempted to explain Thomas's exclusion earlier in the week.
But Furyk's comments were somewhat vague.
