Jordan Spieth admits the ‘problem’ he has with his swing right now as he says how close he is to his best level

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Jordan Spieth continues his PGA Tour season this week as he takes on the Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands.

The action in Connecticut is now underway, with Spieth paired with Luke Clanton for the first two rounds of the Travelers Championship.

Spieth won the Travelers Championship back in 2017, representing one of the American’s 13 wins on the PGA Tour.

His appearance comes after another at the US Open, where he finished T23 on eight-over at Oakmont Country Club.

Spieth was left shocked by Oakmont, where it was his fellow PGA Tour player J.J. Spaun who emerged victorious.

Jordan Spieth admits ‘problem’ with his swing ahead of the Travelers Championship

The former has now shared insight into his time in Pennsylvania, having been asked on Golf on CBS what he’s working on with his swing right now after hitting a lot of fairway woods at the Oakmont driving range.

“Well, I really had unbelievable control in the first round, and I did all week at Oakmont leading into it, and I just picked it up in the first round,” said Spieth. “I’m like, ‘man this is going to be awesome’. And then kind of maybe number three of the first round, I just got into my bad habit of picking the club up with my hands off the ball.

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“And so I take it on a path that takes my hands higher and drags on, and it’s just what I’ve been fighting all year to try to get out of, the bad habits I’ve had for a couple years now.

“And so I needed to go try to fix it after on the range. And I really didn’t get a hold of it until after Friday’s round unfortunately. So I played some poor golf off of just structural issues that I was trying to fix on Friday, and then struck it a lot better on the weekend once I kind of had the time to almost overdo some motions.

“And when you go to… the mistakes I’m making, the easiest ones to get off on are really three woods off the ground. So even though I may have been hitting three woods off the ground, it was with the intent that if I do it well with three off the ground, I’ll do it well with any other club. So it wasn’t exactly like ‘oh I need to work on this club’ by any means.

“I only had a couple of those throughout the whole week there. So I’m trying to get nice and connected off the ball and turned early that takes my hand path deeper, keeps my right elbow lower, and let the club just kind of set where it wants to set, which is a place that I’ve played great golf from in the past, and I’m teetering on getting back there. I’m closer than I’ve been in a long time to being there.

“The problem is right now still just when I get off, it’s at a level that’s… we all get off day to day, things change, but if you want it, to get off by one or two, I’m still getting off by three or four, just reversing bad habits.

“I went from having maybe one really good ball striking day, or really good mechanics early in the season, and three where I had to fight through. Now I’m kind of at… flipped it to like three and one, and if I can just keep on leaning on it and working on the right things, keep kind of putting money in the same bank, just kind of adding to it, then that consistency will be the difference maker on really contending week in and week out.”

Jordan Spieth shares how his season has changed since The Masters

Spieth had a delayed start to his latest season on the PGA Tour, having undergone surgery on an ongoing wrist injury late last year.

Since then, the 31-year-old American has made 15 appearances, with 13 cuts made and four top 10 finishes.

A tie for 14th was secured at The Masters at Augusta National, but Spieth then failed to make the cut at the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow.

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Sharing how difficult it has been to balance his long term goals and short term expectations coming off the off-season, he said: “It wasn’t hard the first few months.

“And then once we’ve gotten post-Augusta, and you start tasting kind of some success, you start thinking, ‘Okay actually yeah, I feel like my wrist is healthy, I feel like I can practice the way I want to, and then I’m hitting it really well, and this shot is getting easier and better’, it’s harder to look long term.

“I just want it to obviously work out right away, and that is the biggest challenge right now, especially as I get towards the end of the season. I’m outside looking in on Ryder Cup. I know The Open championship is such a big event. The playoffs are huge.

“I think staying the course and just trying to inch versus take big strides will leave me in a better place short and long term. That’s the biggest challenge, is I get off one day and I want to fix it all right away.

“Just being okay with the ups and the downs, recognizing that we’re still going this direction right now. And in our sport, you don’t… momentum is everything and confidence is everything.

“When you start to gain a little bit, even your off days, you’ve just got to at least maintain where you’re at so that your good ones keep pushing you forward.”