Jordan Spieth enters the PGA Championship with a chance of winning the Career Grand Slam.
If he won at Aronimink, it would be at the 10th time of asking, but becoming the seventh man to win all four major championships isn’t the only thing that’s on Spieth’s mind ahead of this year’s event.
Instead, he took time to credit 2013 Masters winner Adam Scott for an “amazing” record that he hopes to one day compete for.
Jordan Spieth says Adam Scott’s major record is ‘amazing’
This will be Spieth’s 53rd major championship of his 14-year career, and his 51st in a row, but he’s barely even scratched Scott’s major championship record.
When he tees off at Aronimink, Scott will have played in 99 straight major championships, second all-time, only to the great Jack Nicklaus. That’s incredible longevity and availability.
It’s a record that Spieth is in awe of, and he hopes to be able to contend with it one day. Speaking before the PGA Championship, he said, “Yeah, it’s not only maintaining your health but maintaining that level of play, and I know he — when did he get through?
“He went through the U.S. Open qualifier in the last couple years — yeah, two years ago, because he ended up winning or getting second in Colorado that year, too. He was later — I think in ’24 — I got it wrong.
“But anyway, what a testament to being healthy, doing things the right way, and then being that good for that long. The health is probably the hardest part because there’s obviously a number of guys who — some of the best players to ever play the game that you would have thought would have made that list and didn’t because they were out for injury.
“So it’s amazing. It’s something I’d love to challenge him on some day.”
When Jordan Spieth could break Adam Scott’s major record
Scott is 45 years old and shows no signs of slowing down, but even if this were his last major championship, it would still take Spieth years to catch the Australian.
This PGA is Spieth’s 52nd in a row, so for him to make it to 100 straight major championships, he would have to play in every major until the 2037 PGA Championship.
Spieth is already 32 years old with a long list of injuries from the last decade, and he’d have to keep playing every major until he was 43 years of age just to reach Scott’s current tally.
And with the way the Aussie has been playing of late, it’s unlikely he stops any time soon. Spieth’s record is already impressive, but it’s a tall task to match Scott.
