Jordan Spieth says he’s got an ‘incredible’ club in his bag now which has given him an improved weapon ahead of the PGA Championship

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Jordan Spieth continues his search for the career grand slam this week as he takes on the PGA Championship.

Spieth has been told he can contend at the PGA Championship, which returns to Quail Hollow in North Carolina.

Xander Schauffele will be out to defend his PGA Championship title, having triumphed at Valhalla in 2024.

Also in the field are Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy, with the latter having won The Masters at Augusta National last month.

Spieth last won on the PGA Tour in 2022, with his success at the RBC Heritage representing his 13th career title.

Jordan Spieth highlights ‘incredible’ club he has ahead of the PGA Championship

Also on his honours list are wins at The Masters, US Open and The Open Championship, all of which arrived between 2015 and 2017.

He has now been speaking ahead of another run at PGA Championship success, having been asked if an improvement in his driving – which he called a ‘weapon’ – has hampered his approach play.

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“Not necessarily,” the American said. “I think the longer lever and the more full shots last year were better for me with where my mechanics were off.

“That would be… I was not in a place that I played very good golf from, but because it was a longer lever, the timing was just easier hitting full shots with a driver.

“Not to mention, the drivers that I have now are just incredible. The improvement Titleist has made in their drivers, like the mis-hits being just as fast and just as straight, I think the technology has a lot to do with it.

“But you’re looking at strokes gained, so that’s relative to everybody else having better technology too. I was just more comfortable in full, hard shots.

“Yeah, it was more… it was less of… it was coincidental that the driving was better and the approach wasn’t.

“I wasn’t mechanically sound to hit all the shots needed to have an approach game that was up there with the best of them.

“I didn’t try to become a better driver by any means. It just kind of happened. This year it feels pretty good, and luckily, I think, I’m on the right path to having everything follow right behind it.”

Jordan Spieth thinks he has an advantage for the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow

Spieth heads into the PGA Championship having just taken on the Truist Championship, where he finished T34.

That came after he finished fourth at The CJ Cup Byron Nelson, representing one of his three top 10s in 2025 so far.

He will now look to get over the line on the PGA Tour for the first time this season at Quail Hollow, which would also see him complete the career grand slam.

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Spieth was also transported back to 2017 ahead of this year’s event, when he said the PGA Championship was the hardest to win, not because of the psychological career grand slam aspect, but because of its setups.

Asked if his opinion has since evolved, he said: “I think the hardest one, I believe statistically for me, if I look back at all my history of professional golf, would have been the U.S. Open, but I somehow snuck that one out.

“So then the PGA would be second because The Masters and The Open play a lot more into my strengths than the other two do.

“So I think that’s why I was saying that because I’d already won the U.S. Open because I’d snuck it out on a course that’s not a normal U.S. Open golf course.

“Yeah, I would say, had I won the PGA, I would have easily said the U.S. Open, and if I didn’t win the U.S. Open, I would have reversed that.

“But having been the case, I think I’m in a position now, just because I have faster ball speed than I did back then by a significant amount… you know, it was really just kind of the driving statistic that you need at U.S. Opens and PGAs that would have held me back.

“There’s just going to be certain courses, like maybe a Whistling Straits, that you could get away with it, and I had a good shot there.

“But some of these big American golf courses with thick rough, which are typically… more PGAs are played on those than U.S. Opens, I would have expected it to be more of a challenge than the other couple majors.

“Nowadays I think I actually, because of my driver becoming a weapon more than it used to be, that leaves me in a position where I feel a little more comfortable on these courses.

“Having said that, you’ve got to go out and execute, but a familiar golf course is nice. I don’t feel like I have to learn where all the pins are and where all the misses are and stuff.

“You can ask me the hole location on any green around this place right now, and I can tell you how I’m going to play the hole and where I’m going to try to hit it.

“So it’s nice to be at a familiar place this week, and I think that’s an advantage a little bit. Then the fact that it’s this big slopey Bermuda, you know, I grew up on that. So it’s a good opportunity this week for sure.”