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Jordan Spieth in the PGA Championship on Monday.
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Charlotte, NC – When Rory Mcilroy won the masters of 2025 To complete the Grand Slam career, he opened his own championship winning press conference with a question of his.
“What will we all talk about next year?” Mcilroy withdrew in the media, which had asked him with questions about his pursuit of history since 2015.
For Mcilroy, Grand Slam Hunt Annual in Augusta National was a weight he felt for 365 days. No matter how he was playing by entering the tournament, the questions always arrived.
“It’s very difficult,” Mcilroy said. “I think I’ve done that burden since August 2014. It’s almost 11 years old. And not just to win my other major, but Grand Slam career. You know, trying to join a group of five players to do it, you know, seeing many of my peers get green jackets in the process.
“It was a heavy weight to keep, and fortunately now I don’t have to keep it.”
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Nine months after Mcilroy won the 2014 open championship, Jordan Spieth began his march to history. He won the Masters 2015 and immediately followed him with a win at the US Open 2015 in Bay Chambers. The third part of the Spieth Grand Slam career came to the 2017 Open Championship, leaving only the Wanamaker trophy of Spieth.
But while Mcilroy was loaded by the weight of time And from the country he had to conquer, the PGA Championship has not been the same boogeyman for Spieth, who will make his ninth race in Grand Slam career this week in Quail Hollow Club.
“I’m surprised – it has been a few years since I came to PGA, and no one really asked me about it,” Spieth said on Tuesday when asked if Mcilroy’s victory has put Grand Slam career more in the forefront of his mind. “Funny funny, I think, if Rory wouldn’t be, then it would not be a story for me here necessarily.
“I am surprised by a little dynamics. It is always surrounded in the calendar. For me, if I could only win a tour for the rest of my life, I would solve this for that reason. Of course, seeing Rory win after trying for a number of years was inspiring. By many people, and there is a reason why.
Mcilroy and Spieth lived different realities when it comes to following the immortality of golf.
For Mcilroy, the Winning spectrum in Augusta National, a place that had haunted what since its 2011 crash was omnipresent. But Spieth has not felt the need to search for the baggage of the PGA championship behind him for nine years. He has not been filled with questions every year. The weight has not been as heavy for spieth in the PGA as it was for Mcilroy every April in Augusta National.
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“I think, for Jordan you need – you have to go back to the same tour every year for Jordan, but not the same golf course,” Mcilroy said last week at the Hruist championship in the Philadelphia Cricket Club. “I think it’s a little by another – it’s a little of another proposal for her than I have to go back to the same place every year and try, I think, do it too.”
While Mcilroy had to roll in Augusta National every year and restore herself with his 2011 ghosts, every year in the PGA championship is different for Spieth. He has arrived in courses that fit his game (2015, Whistling Straits), some not, but in which he claimed (2019, Bethpage Black) and others who did not fit at all (2024, Valhalla).
Spieth has also not tried in the PGA championship like Mcilroy has in Augusta National or Phil Mickelson in US Open. Spieth ended second in 2015 and third in 2019 but does not have a top 10 in the Championship PGA in 12 rehearsals.
The scar tissue is not there for spieth so was for mcilroy and masters. Maybe it will never be. The masters of 2011 were the beginning of one of the excellent golf stories in history – one that turned from tragedy to Triumphal 11 years later. It also remains one of the largest golf.
“To be honest, if that masters in ’11 had gone on his way, I think he would have achieved much more than he already,” Jon Rahm told Mcilroy on Tuesday. “I think it has been a very difficult obstacle to overcome, and you can see his emotion to the end, just because his first real chance to win a major, as he came down.
Spieth and Championship PGA do not have that kind of affected relationship. It is not something that Spieth lived and fought.
Spieth will follow the story this week in Quail Hollow. If he catches it, the result will be a story different from that written in Augusta National last month.
One of his legend only for his cement. Not for the ghosts of defeat.
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Josh Schrock is a writer and reporter for Golf.com. Before entering Golf, Josh was the interior of Chicago Bears for the NBC Sports Chicago. He previously covered 49ers and Warriors for NBC Sports Bay Area. A native Oregonian and Uo alum, seduces and spends his free time walking with his wife and dog, thinking about how the ducks will break his heart again, and trying to become half a professor into pieces. A true romantic for golf, Josh will never stop trying to break 90 and will never lose the confidence that Rory Mcilroy’s main drought will end (updated: he did it). Josh Schrock can be reached in Josho.schrock@golf.com.