Jordan Spieth trying to solve 1 disappointing issue while masters approach

Jordan Spieth’s return to competitive golf after offseason hand surgery has been a mixed bag up to this point. This was expected.

Great champion three times played his way to oppose the WM Phoenix Open But it could not put pressure on Thomas Detry on Sunday. He lost the cut in the invitational genesis but played well in Cognant Classic, marking a T9 conclusion. Spy turned on the round of player championship opening But it faded quickly. He fought from the gates in Valsspar but Put together strong second and third rounds Before they were fooled on Sunday.

With the approach of 2025 masters, Spieth reached Valero Texas Open at TPC San Antonio seeking to polish every aspect of his game to give himself a good chance to capture his national magic Augusta next week.

Spieth shot a 67-year-old in the first round on Thursday, but a frequent problem raised his head on Friday while Spieth Bogey two of his last three holes and lost a 6-to-foot blow in the middle. She left with the bumps eight shots from Brian Harman’s supremacy. Spieth’s problems on Friday have appeared on several tours on his return. He was riding on a heater on Friday in Valsspar before playing his last four holes in three. In the second round in the connoisseur, Spieth was four under 13, but played his last five holes in three, including a double noise in par-3 17.

“I have to get better at closing these rounds on Fridays,” Spieth said on Friday after his round in San Antonio. “I had the same problem happening in tampa. It’s not like a trend or nothing; they were just random things every day, and this happened to be wrong chips, which is normally a specialty of mine. I’m just a little – a little, like you feel in a bad card running and as a man, in the last hole I am and then. Judged badly. ”

Spieth has two endings of Top-10 this season, but has done nothing especially well during the first stages of his return.

It is currently ranked 44th or lower in all the major metric shocks. He is the 95th in the placement, the 79th in access and 52 from tee.

According to Datagolf, Spieth’s numbers mark a little when adjusted for the strength of the field, but he is still not playing as an old spieth.

Eight years have passed since the last great spieth victory and three since his last PGA Tour victory. It’s been a long time since the 31-year-old played painless golf. Before his return to AT&T Pebble Beach Pro AM, Spieth described his swing as “wet concrete”. His purpose at the beginning of his return was to rediscover the good habits and feel the shakes that made him one of the best players in the world.

A month later in the player championship, Spieth made it clear that he is still far from feeling like Jordan Spieth.

“When I stand on him and I’m not trying to avoid things,” Spieth said when he will know he is really turned. “Instead (from what I’m doing right now), I’m choosing a target and I’m very sure it will start on that target and transfer where I love it. So much out of most of these boys are playing, I would like to get there.

“I’m doing a really good job to fight it,” Spieth said in TPC wrist. “I had to rebuild items from a few months nothing, and it wasn’t like turning into something that was already great before. I was in some really bad habits for a year and a half.”

Spieth is building yourself back. He knows that progress will not be linear. There were more good days than bad on his way back, including a Wednesday’s productive session at TPC San Antonio, where he felt he found something with the driver. He followed him with a second round in which he did not have control of his golf ball.

Two more stand between spieth and a return to Augusta National. He will not reach the main form, but the Azalea and Magnolia Lane trees have a way to get spieth to find the best of himself even if he cannot explain where he comes from.