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27 August 2025 | Wed
Will in-form Spieth join Grand Slam club at US PGA?
World number one
Scottie Scheffler has just won
a tournament by eight shots.
Bryson DeChambeau is back
in the winners’ circle on LIV
Golf. Rory McIlroy has finally
completed the career Grand
Slam.
There are narratives around
every corner at the US PGA
Championship, the next major
of the season, which gets
under way at Quail Hollow on
Thursday.
And yet one golfer is
going under the radar - but his
plotline could be the biggest of
them all.
It is 10 years since Jordan
Spieth’s incredible breakout
season on the PGA Tour, where
he won the Masters, the US
Open and went close at both
the Open Championship and
the US PGA.
In 2017 he added the Claret “The first time I saw him play
Jug, to secure an annual shot at a pitch shot, I was like ‘oh my!
the career Grand Slam.
‘One of the great golf years ever’
While McIlroy waited 11
years for his Green Jacket,
Spieth ripped up the Masters
from the moment he arrived at
Augusta.
A runner-up on debut in
2014, he won wire-to-wire
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However, eight attempts later
- and none particularly close
- the 31-year-old arrives at
this latest effort as a side story
but perhaps ready to write
headlines of his own. Three top second player in history
10s in 2025 suggests he is on
the climb.
“Jordan is like a bomb
waiting to go off,” says his
celebrated University of Texas
coach John Fields. “The fuse is
lit and if he wins again, he may
not stop.”
The Texan has not won any
tournament since April 2022
and it is easy to forget just how
good peak-Spieth was.
As a junior, he was a
dominant force in US golf.
So much so says Fields, that
he was in demand from the
moment he turned 13.
“We started recruiting him
from eighth grade,” Fields says.
We’re getting that guy!’.
in 2015, equalling the then
tournament record of 18 under since Woods in 2002 to win the
par and recording 28 birdies
over the four days – three more the same year.
than anyone else in history.
He then backed it up by
taking the second major of
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Source : BBC NEWS
“It was a hell of a process.
Everyone wanted Jordan
Spieth.”
Understandably so. In 2011,
Spieth became only the
to win multiple US Junior
championships – Tiger Woods
being the other – and was
making noise on the PGA Tour
as an amateur even before
starting college.
“I remember exactly
where I was when he told me
he was coming to us,” Fields
says. “February 7, three in the
afternoon and he called me. It
was a monumental moment.”
For Fields and the
University of Texas, Spieth
was another great player on
a long list of famous alumni
that includes 10 major
championship titles from the
likes of Ben Crenshaw, Justin
Leonard and latterly, Scheffler.
Spieth was only there for a year
and a semester mark.
the season, becoming the first
Masters and the US Open in
He still almost grabbed a third
major of the year at the US
PGA, then held in August.
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Liverpool trio among
player of season
nominees
Source : BBC NEWS
Three members of goals and seven assists
Liverpool’s title- - the third highest
winning squad have goal contributions
been nominated for tally in the league.
the Premier League Arsenal midfielder
player of the season Declan Rice completes
award. the list.
Captain Virgil van Manchester City
Dijk, Mohamed Salah forward Phil Foden
and Ryan Gravenberch won last year’s award.
lead the eight-player Cole Palmer is in
shortlist after helping the running to win
the Reds to a 20th the Premier League
league title.
Defender Van Palmer and
Dijk has played every
game for Liverpool this Delap up
season, helping them
record 14 clean sheets, for young
while midfielder player
Gravenberch has
missed only one award
match.
Forward Salah has
registered a league-high young player of the
season award for a
46 goal contributions,
including 28 goals. second year in a row.
Nottingham Forest The 23-year-old
are the only other club Chelsea forward
with more than one has 15 goals and
nominee. eight assists in 35
Midfielder Morgan appearances.
Gibbs-White is Liverpool’s
included alongside Gravenberch and
striker Chris Wood, striker Liam Delap,
who is enjoying his who has scored 12
most prolific Premier of Ipswich’s 35 goals,
League campaign are also on the eight-
with 20 goals in 34 player shortlist. The
matches. other nominees are
Also nominated Nottingham Forest
are Newcastle striker winger Anthony
Alexander Isak, Elanga, Bournemouth
who is second in the defender Dean
scoring charts with 23 Huijsen, who is set
goals, and Brentford to join Real Madrid,
forward Bryan Brighton striker
Mbeumo, who has 18 Saliba.