Jordan Spieth is still one of the most popular players in the professional game despite not having won a tournament since April 2022.
Spieth won three major championships in a three-year period from 2015-2017 but his game has regressed badly on the whole since then.
The 32-year-old has 13 PGA Tour victories to his name, but he is winless in three years, and seems to be totally bereft of confidence right now.
The last official PGA Tour event that Spieth played was back in August, and his T-38 finish at the FedEx St. Jude Championship brought an end to what was a miserable year on the golf course for him.
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He returned to action last week in the Bahamas at Albany Golf Club. However, Spieth’s frailties were laid bare during the Hero World Challenge, and there is real concern now that he will never return to his very best.
Perhaps it’s a case of paralysis by analysis, and the former world number one should try to simplify things heading into the 2026 PGA Tour season.
Interestingly, Spieth still believes he can become world number one again, but that feels like such a long way away from happening right now.
The 13-time PGA Tour winner may well be longing to hear one word that he quite simply hated hearing four years ago.
Jordan Spieth will now want to hear the one word he once ‘hated’
When Spieth won his third major championship at Royal Birkdale in 2017 when he was just 23 years old, many were tipping him to go on and challenge the major records of Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods.
In fact, he joined Nicklaus as the only player to win three different majors before turning 24.
However, the Texan’s fall from grace since that victory has been as drastic as it was unexpected.
He enjoyed a mini-revival, so to speak, in 2021 when he returned to the winner’s circle in his home state after going four years without a victory.
Not long after that win, Spieth was asked if he was really ‘back’ ahead of the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village in 2021.
The American had recorded six top-five finishes in his first 12 events of the season, including his victory at the Valero Texas Open.
However, Spieth wasn’t happy with one question he was asked during his press conference at Muirfield Village four years ago.
“The only thing that I care about looking backwards is mechanically matching up to what I was doing [four or five years ago],” Spieth said. “As far as any kind of comparisons to years or results, is literally the last thing that’s on my mind.
“I hate the word ‘back,’” he added. “I hate that, ‘He’s back.’ I never went anywhere. This is all part of what happens in a career. There’s ups and downs. And I like looking forward, at what are the pieces that I need to put together for this jump start? This new kind of way that I want to be playing golf week-in and week-out.”
Spieth would give anything to hear the question ‘are you back?’ right now, because the Spieth that we all know and love has been missing for quite some time.
While he might still have his PGA Tour card, his performances have not been befitting of one of the most talented golfers on the planet.
Missing out on the Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black would have really hurt him.
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Spieth needs to find a way of rediscovering his best form and the easiest way to do that will be for him to go back to basics.
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Players who could bounce back from poor form in 2026: Jordan Spieth, Collin Morikawa, Tony Finau, Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson, Cam Smith and Justin Thomas
What made him great a decade ago? His ability to putt the lights out and to get up and down from literally any position on the golf course.
He has been outside the top 60 in both strokes gained putting and scrambling over the past two seasons now.
Spieth has actually driven the ball pretty well over the past two years. If he manages to maintain those levels off the tee and fixes up in and around the greens, could the best of the Dallas native still be yet to come?
The vast majority of golf fans want to see the three-time major champion perform well again, and we will all be keeping a close eye on his swing, his scores and the results he posts during the early months of 2026.
If Spieth does show signs of improvement and records some top-five finishes early on in the new season, any suggestions that he is ‘back’ may well be met with sheer joy and relief by the current world number 73, rather than frustration.
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