Jordan Spieth‘s off-season came early. Spieth carded 72 in the final round at the TPC Southwind and won’t be progressing ahead in the playoffs. His performance this year has been subpar, to say the least, and the issue that has probably led to the poor season is the lingering wrist injury. Last year, before the PGA Championship, Spieth started facing some troubles with his wrist.

This year, during the RBC Heritage, it got bad and almost forced him to withdraw, but he did not and preserved through. He even talked about it after his pro-am round and said, “It’s a come-and-go thing; I could oddly enough twist in the wrong way getting off the ground, and I couldn’t play tomorrow. But I could play the next day,” as revealed on the AP News website. However, before the St. . Jude Championship, the golfer revealed that he would be opting for surgery to help with the issue, but he would be doing so in the off-season.

Now that his 2024 season is over, he has shared another update about it. Todd Lewis, an anchor and reporter at Golf Channel and NBC, shared a post on X revealing that after today’s disappointing round, “Spieth said he needs to have the procedure “ASAP.'” During the RBC Heritage, he also said, “It’s not really a surgical thing; it’s a rest thing,” but who would have thought that he would have to consider surgery in the end? 

Not only that but before the Open Championship the golfer revealed that his tendon had dislocated about 12 times this year and said “My tendon essentially dislocates. It’s dislocated about a dozen times since February. When it does, I can’t grip the club. When I get it back in, I’m fine, but my brain is just saying: ‘Don’t do it.” While the golfer was dealing with a lot of pain his performance also suffered a lot this year because of his injury.

How did injury impact Jordan Speith’s 2024 season?

Speith was off to a good start and finished T3 at the Sentry. Yes, his performance went a little bit downhill at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am as he finished T39. But he bounced back with a T6 finish at the WM Phoenix Open. However, the rollercoaster ride continued, and the golfer missed the cut at THE PLAYERS and the Valspar Championship. And made a comeback again with a T10 at Valero Texas Open. He talked about his injury during the Masters and said “When it flares up, it flares up for like 24 hours, and then it just slowly gets better.”

Following that, during the RBC Heritage, the golfer injured his left wrist by hitting it against the bunker bulkhead during his follow-through, which caused his ECU (extensor carpi ulnaris) tendon to dislocate once more, which almost forced him to withdraw. Since then Jordan Spieth has been struggling even more to deliver ideal performances and could finish in the top 10 in any event and even missed cut at the tournaments like the Memorial, the Genesis Scottish Open, and the St. Jude Championship.

Although he was excited about the FedEx Cup Playoffs and said “My goal this week is to try to move up as far as I can in the FedExCup and head into the Playoffs on a high note,” his season is unfortunately over with his final round at the TPC Southwind.