Jordan Spieth heads into the 2026 PGA Championship making his 10th attempt at completing the career Grand Slam.
When Spieth won the 2017 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale, in a swashbuckling style he’s made his trademark, it gave him his third Major title – and victory at a third different Major.
As Spieth has been a relative non-factor in the Majors in recent years, with a loss of form and injuries combining to add to his struggles.
So as he prepares for his latest bid to become the seventh Grand Slam winner, he’s teeing it up at Aronmink in hope rather than expectation.
“So as far as the career Grand Slam, this tournament’s always highlighted. If I can win one more tournament in my life, it would obviously be this one for that reason,” Spieth explained.
“But the easiest way to do that is to not try to, in a weird way, you know.”
The halcyon days seem long gone for Spieth and both his recent results in the PGA Championship and Majors in general don’t suggest a Wanamaker trophy is imminent.
Jordan Spieth’s Major form slump
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Spieth could easily have won The Masters on his first three visits, winning his one Green Jacket either side of two second-place finishes – the last being that huge 2016 collapse.
In 2015 he came closer than almost anyone else to winning all four Majors in a year as he mopped up the first two – The Masters and US Open.
He just missed out on a play-off at The Open at St Andrews before playing in the final group but coming up short in the PGA Championship.
The 2017 Open followed and two more top 10s in 2018 but they have dried up since.
“I went on a run of feeling like I was contending or having a good chance of contending at every Major for a number of years and then it was periodic,” Spieth explained.
“I feel like I’m close to being able to go back to doing that again. So I just want…
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