(Reuters) – Jordan Spieth stated on Tuesday this yr’s PGA Championship at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma, might properly be his finest alternative but to complete the career Grand Slam of golf’s 4 majors.
Spieth was born in Texas, which borders Oklahoma within the north, and the 28-year-old acknowledged that the May 19-22 PGA Championship’s proximity to residence might symbolize certainly one of his higher probabilities till the foremost is held in Frisco in 2027.
“I feel on paper, sure, simply given grass sorts, winds are extra comparable to what I’m used to at residence, and it is about as shut to residence as we get for a PGA, at the very least till we go to Frisco,” Spieth stated at Austin Country Club forward of this week’s WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play occasion.
“It’ll be by far the closest PGA I’ve performed to residence, and the perfect probabilities I’ve had are when programs are performed with wind and firmer situations at PGA Championships.”
The 2022 PGA Championship was due to be performed at a Donald Trump-owned course in New Jersey however was relocated after the previous U.S. President exhorted 1000’s of his supporters to march on the Capitol as Congress met to certify his presidential election defeat by Joe Biden.
Spieth loved success on the Trump-owned course having received the U.S. Junior boys title there in 2009 however will now have to re-familiarise himself with a Southern Hills structure that may look a little bit completely different than when he competed there for the U.S. Amateur Championship in 2009.
“I bear in mind it being approach too huge of a golf course for me at 14 years previous. Hopefully I really feel a little bit in another way going again,” stated Spieth.
“I do not bear in mind the holes particularly, however I really plan on getting on the market sooner or later between now and the event in order that once I arrive, I haven’t got to really feel like I’ve to catch up and be taught a number of the golf course.”
This yr’s PGA Championship might be Spieth’s sixth shot on the career Grand Slam after having received the Masters and U.S. Open in 2015 earlier than his British Open victory in 2017.
A triumph at Southern Hills would put Spieth alongside Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods as the one gamers to complete the career Grand Slam of successful golf’s 4 main championships.
(Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto; Editing by Toby Davis)
