Based on his finish, Jordan Spieth’s 2025 season was almost unforgettable. The three-time major champion will play in the 17th event in the regular season finale of the PGA Tour at this week’s Wyndham Championship, but only collected top-five finishes and seven top-20 finishes.
Spieth rarely sniffed the weekend’s contest outside another run at WM Phoenix Open in early February. However, despite the lack of quality results to jump off the page, Spieth is sure that the underlying metrics of his game are far better than those on paper.
And the thing is, he is right.
“There were nine holes here that didn’t make anything. They either had four unders in nine holes to cause a round, or nine holes in poor iron shots, so they didn’t have the chance to compete and ended up 13th to 13th.”
“It’s just a little bit of consistency between ball strikes and putting. Both are ahead of average, and both are averaged to get shots on the field, but are trying to get consistent profits after the round,” he continued. “I show you what you can do every day whether you’re playing at home or playing here or not. It’s been really starting to get together recently, so now we need to do it when it matters.”
Spieth ranks 16th on the PGA Tour. Based solely on numbers, it suggests he is the top 20 player this season. He’s ahead of winners like Ryan Fox, Victor Hofland, Chris Gottap, Kurt Kitayama, Harris English and Andrew Novak, but most of them are behind when it comes to FedEx Cup rankings.
In fact, Spieth The bubble on the eve of the postseason. The former FedEx Cup champion, who finished 50th in the Wyndham Championship in a race during the season, finds himself in a shaky position given the magnitude that comes with finishing within the top 50 of the rankings.
He will compete in the second week of the postseason (BMW Championship) and will compete in all eight signature events in 2026. Access to these tournaments offers a buffer to the best players on the PGA Tour, as they have not been limited fields, cuts and increased at both the winnings and the FedEx Cup points.
Spieth was a participant in these tournaments in 2025, but that wasn’t due to his play. Rather, the value of his name was due to the 32-year-old relied on sponsor invitations to secure a spot for the tee seat.
“I didn’t like asking for exemptions at all this year. I was lucky to receive a lot of them, but you just don’t know,” Spieth said. “And when you miss the height event, the way it’s structured, they have the best players in the world and you don’t want to miss any of them. That’s why I’m here. Ideally, a good start this week or next week really takes away a lot.”
Spieth played last year at Wyndham Championship amid news that he would undergo offseason procedures to reduce pain in his left wrist. He wanted to improve his postseason position, but was unable to do so, missing out on a cut in his first start at Sedgefield Country Club in four years, and eventually missed the BMW Championship with another poor outing at the St. Jude Championship the following week.
This year, Spieth arrives in a much better spirit and a much better health. He is confident that he is on the path to playing more consistent golf and more consistent golf. Still, Spieth wants to push that offseason into the future as much as possible, as this week’s Wyndham Championship could serve as a launch pad.
“The way to get off to a good start is to play the way I play without thinking about it, but obviously that’s an element I don’t need to have and it’s part of the year,” Spieth continued. “I missed the first month of the year and missed another couple event for a variety of reasons, so I want to be strong this year.
“But next year will be a really good year for me, I can feel it. It’s all coming together. I’m healthy, just putting structurally, and the mechanics are really, really close.
