Jordan Spieth: 'If I could win one tournament, it'd be the PGA Championship'

[p]But spending time over the charcoals last fall got him thinking about a lesson he could take to improve his golf swing.[/p][p][b]"I was smoking chicken in the fall on a big ‌smoker I have, and it got up to 155 quickly and then takes a while," [/b][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/spieth-jordan/p0739Ny4/"]Spieth[/a] recalled Monday. [b]"I was like, man, this kind of ‌feels like - I was working on (swing) stuff and I was - it kind of feels like what I'm trying ‌to do in the swing. I go play, and it's a little bit out of the barriers that we call sustainable. ‌Kind of outside the margins that we call OK.[/b][/p][p][b]"I don't know how - if it's that ‌way for everybody and just seemed that way for me right now, where, you know, it's there, it's there. It's like close. It's matching what I want to do. It feels good, and it's producing the right stuff."[/b][/p][p]Spieth is beginning to see the results of some stop-start swing ‌progress, and though he doesn't have a top-10 finish on the ⁠PGA Tour this year to show for it, he's still going ‌to be a popular face at the PGA Championship this week at Aronimink Golf Club.[/p][p]His T12 at the Masters and ​T18 at the Cadillac Championship two weeks ago could be signs that the three-time major winner can contend at majors again, with the PGA Championship the only one missing from his resume ​for the career Grand Slam.[/p][embed guid="e3c05da9-b932-4b18-83c5-00a89aabc81e" url="https://x.com/GOLF_com/status/2053837534179070146?s=20" social-type="twitter" /][p]While admitting [b]"it would be amazing"[/b] to wrap up the feat and become the seventh player to achieve the modern Grand Slam, Spieth said he can't let that affect his preparation.[/p][p][b]"As far as the career ⁠Grand Slam, this tournament's always highlighted. If ​I can win one more tournament in my life, it would obviously be this one for that reason,"[/b] Spieth told reporters. [b]"But the easiest way to do that is to not try to, in a weird way, you know. Just go out and get ready for the first hole, get a good game plan in, and attack it the way it ‌needs to be attacked.[/b][/p][p][b]"My game has been getting better and better. It's plenty good to have a chance to win. It's about working my way into contention."[/b][/p][embed guid="bc8acff0-3037-4b8c-af66-2c51eb6ac41f" url="https://x.com/Cam_Jourdan/status/2053920043168129530?s=20" social-type="twitter" /][p]Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/player-gary/IJYMQppA/"]Gary Player[/a], [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/nicklaus-jack/6qVIRQU3/"]Jack Nicklaus[/a], [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/woods-tiger/jcA2kkj7/"]Tiger Woods[/a], and [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/mcilroy-rory/djwanksN/"]Rory McIlroy[/a] are the six who've collected a Masters, U.S. Open, Open Championship, and PGA Championship in their careers. Arnold Palmer and [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/watson-tom/2ZvKxtjs/"]Tom Watson[/a] were a PGA Championship shy of the milestone, as Spieth is now.[/p][p]The sport saw 59 years go by with just one player, Woods, added to that list between Nicklaus finishing the feat in 1966 and McIlroy winning his long-sought Masters in 2025. The Northern Irishman went more than 10 years between his previous major title and his first green jacket, so Spieth did not want to draw a comparison.[/p][p][b]"My situation was certainly different ‌than his at Augusta, so I think that was unique to him,"[/b] Spieth said of McIlroy. [b]"Rory's was obviously a very ​unique final round, and his history of having led there and stuff like that, so I don't ‌think it would feel similar.[/b][/p][p][b]"For me, it would just be like, look, I've been kind of - I went on a run of feeling like I was contending or having a good chance of contending at every major for a number of years, and then it was periodic, and I feel like I'm close to being able to go back to doing that again. So I just want to give myself a ⁠chance."[/b][/p][p]Spieth won the Masters and U.S. Open back-to-back in ⁠2015, then added the Open Championship in 2017. ‌He has just seven top-10s at majors ever since, including a T3 behind a victorious [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/koepka-brooks/t0xtKfZH/"]Brooks Koepka[/a] at the ​2019 PGA Championship.[/p]