Jordan Spieth has been in the golfing doldrums over the past few years, having not won on the PGA Tour since April 2022.
When Spieth burst onto the scene more than a decade ago now, he lit up the PGA Tour with his blockbuster playing style and his endearing nature.
The now 32-year-old has won 13 times on the PGA Tour and has three major championships to his name.
However, the bulk of those victories came in a two-year period from 2015 to 2017.
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He has won just twice since his 2017 Open Championship triumph. In spite of that, Spieth is still one of the few ‘needle-movers’ in the professional game.
And Spieth is confident ahead of the 2026 PGA Tour season that he could be ready to rediscover his very best form.
Now he has opened up on the changes he’s trying to make in order to help facilitate his rise back to the top of the game.
Jordan Spieth shares detailed explanation of his current swing
Spieth made an appearance on Golf.com’s YouTube channel to discuss the improvements he’s trying to make ahead of the new season.
The 32-year-old was asked whether he’s trying to replicate the way he swung the golf club from 2015 to 2017 when he won 10 PGA Tour events including three major championships.
“So we call them our templates,“ Spieth explained.
“So I have templates from different time periods, and it’s a really good question because it goes into a lot of what I’ve done over the last few months.
“I don’t want to step into an exact swing I made seven years ago because my body’s changed. I could do some things better now that I couldn’t do then, and I could do a lot of things that were really good then.
“That was probably my best ball striking year, 2017. I had good striking in ’13, ’14 and ’15 as well .
“What I’m trying to do is gather the DNA parts, like, what is my DNA? What do I do in my swing that is consistent within all these good time periods?
“Whether the shaft is pitched in a different place or the depth of my hands is a little bit different here or there.
“What is a similar movement, that I haven’t been doing that I want to get back to?“
Jordan Spieth explains the specific changes he’s trying to make
These comments from Spieth will be awesome to listen to for golf nerds.
He lifted the lid on the exact change he’s trying to make to his swing path and what he calls the ‘pitch of his club’.
“To me, it ended up being my hands.
“So, my path had gotten more in, and then, as I got to the middle of my backswing, it would go up, so I would lose some of the pitch of the club.
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“It went really long, all these things that are not good.
“And so, I had to really work on my hand path, getting more, kind of, rotated, but stoic, but kind of out off the ball, and then I actually want to take it deeper and deeper and deeper this way.
“So instead of thinking of it as doing a backward C, which was the bad one, I’m trying to do the opposite now.
“That’s more of my DNA, then, what do I need to do to the pitch of the club, the face, to essentially get it in the right spot there, too?
“And so, to answer your question about certain time periods, where it actually ends up, is closer to when I do a swing, I really want to do, I’m getting closer to the total depth I got in ’17, so kind of similar hand-path to ’17. With a little bit more of the pitch that I had, a little steeper pitch, like I had more in my first few years on Tour.
“It’s like, okay, if I’m getting to that depth and I have that kind of pitch, the club is in a great spot, and I have all this space to hit all these shots.
“When the feel starts to match the real and the performance starts to show up from what feels good and then hitting those spots, then we kind of get the whole shebang, the whole picture.
“Then you’ve got to take it to the golf course!“
It will be fascinating to see whether Jordan Spieth is able to rediscover his best form on the PGA Tour in 2026 and beyond.
However, the one big concern is that he is thinking about his golf swing too much, rather than just relying on the natural talent that helped him win 13 PGA Tour events, including three majors.
Smylie Kaufman highlighted this issue with Spieth earlier this month, suggesting that the 32-year-old needs to think less about his golf swing and just execute shots the best way he knows how to.
The fact that Spieth is overcomplicating what is a simple game in essence is actually quite alarming.
He was at his very best when he played in a more reactive manner, so to speak. The American could work the ball both ways with ease and it seems like he has become way too robotic with his motion.
That means Spieth could be in for more challenging times ahead.
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