Jordan Spieth outlines his ‘ultimate’ aim for the 2025 season as he admits there’s one mistake he cannot make as he returns to golf

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Jordan Spieth is among the star names taking part in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, with Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy also involved.

But Rex Hoggard is worried about Spieth’s injury, with the latter making his first start of the 2025 PGA Tour season in California after undergoing wrist surgery.

Spieth confirmed he was pain-free last month, with the off-season surgery carried out in a bid to finally break free of the troublesome injury.

He now takes on the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in California, which also represents McIlroy’s 2025 PGA Tour debut.

Scheffler meanwhile, like Spieth, is making a comeback from a hand injury, while Viktor Hovland returns from a toe injury.

Jordan Spieth shares ‘ultimate’ aim of making USA 2025 Ryder Cup team

Along with injury, Spieth has certainly struggled for form in recent times, with the American last winning on the PGA Tour in 2022.

Asked in his opening AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am if he shares short and/or long-term goals, and if so what they are, he replied: “Yeah, both.

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“I think shortest term is to feel like I get through these three weeks and I feel as good or better than I did when I started as far as physically.

“That’s kind of a not-very-exciting goal, but one that would mean a lot. And then I would love to work myself into contention before the Masters at least once. And then maybe a lofty goal this year would be to make the Ryder Cup team.

“I don’t have a lot of points off of last season, so given the level of competition on the American side, it’s on the points list, I’m going to have to do some really, really good things in some really big tournaments. That would be kind of an ultimate kind of year-end goal for this year would be to make that team.”

Three-time major champion Jordan Spieth wants to contend for majors again

The 31-year-old American has, of course, been there and done it all on the PGA Tour and in the Ryder Cup, with three major championship wins to his name.

He boasts 13 PGA Tour titles, but failed to add to that tally in both 2024 and 2023, with his last win coming at the 2022 RBC Heritage.

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As for the 2025 Ryder Cup, an automatic spot is a long, long way off for the Texan, who currently occupies 65th place in the American rankings.

Spieth is, however, aware of the lack of golf he has played in recent times as the countdown to Bethpage Black lessens.

“A lot of this has been kind of a 10-year outlook,” he continued. “I think if I try to make this year coming back from this a ‘must play well’, I’m just going to get frustrated because even though it was a while ago, I haven’t really been playing golf.

“And obviously competitively but even playing… I haven’t played many rounds since mid-August just because of the process.

“So I think looking at it from a long-term view as I step on the first tee, take it shot by shot, but let’s settle in, let’s get fully healthy and get some of these shots off these hanging… just playing very different from hitting a lot of balls off mats.

“So trying to adjust to that is more short term with kind of a long term back of my mind view of maybe I got 10 years of hopefully similar schedules and set some goals for some wins and some contending in majors and stuff like that.”