Jordan Spieth on still chasing career grand slam: 'This tournament's always highlighted'
Spieth used to own the golf world but still sits one win away from immortality in the sport. Will he finally reach the pinnacle this week?
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — He knows the questions are coming. They always do when the season’s second major rolls around, the major that’s bedeviled him for a decade, the major that stands between him and immortality.
That’s the burden of being Jordan Spieth, being reminded every year of just how close you once were to being a legend … and just how much work remains for you to close the deal. During one magnificent flurry in 2015, Spieth won the Masters and the U. S.
Open, then missed out on winning the Open Championship and the PGA Championship — which would have made him the first man in modern golf history to complete a one-season Grand Slam — by a total of three strokes. He owned the golf world then, and when he tacked on a miraculous Open Championship in 2017, well, it sure looked like collecting the Career Grand Slam was only a matter of time. “Obviously, with having won the other three,” Spieth said Monday at Aronimink in advance of his latest PGA attempt, “that's the one that everyone focuses on.
” Jordan Spieth only needs a PGA Championship to complete a career Grand Slam. Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Spieth carved out his three-of-four in an era when both Rory McIlroy and Phil Mickelson were deep in the hunt for their fourth, and for a brief moment, it looked like he’d get there well before either of them. But he missed on winning the PGA in 2017, and then 2018 and 2019, and then came the 2020s, and then the mid-2020s.