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Jordan Spieth has revealed he bizarrely injured his wrist whilst making breakfast for his son, as the America makes his PGA Tour return at the Hero World Challenge this week.
Spieth's 2023 season has been a stop-start one thanks to his wrist problem, but thought he had overcome the problem earlier this summer. This was until he was preparing breakfast for his youngster in the aftermath of the Ryder Cup. "[It] took until probably July, took about six, eight weeks [to recover]," he said in the Bahamas this week.
"But I was very shocked when I re-injured it. I was reaching for a toaster to make my son breakfast and I was just supporting it on the shelf.
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"It made -- in other words, everything was -- it took the fall for other things that were off and it just made no sense because I'm like, what's going to prevent this from happening at any other point in time. And now I'm out two-plus weeks, so I feel good about that not being the case going forward."
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The freak breakfast injury did allow Spieth to shed some light on his wrist issue, which he went on to learn was a problem with the ulnar nerve. "It ended up being a nerve thing," he added. "Which is nice because I wasn't doing anything either time that I hurt it that should have caused what happened.
"Both MRIs were very similar and shouldn't have been in the pain and lack of mobility that I had initially after it happened. It didn't make a whole lot of sense off the MRIs, and so then just did a bunch of tests and some work.
"Turns out it was my ulnar nerve, which is not anything to mess with, so I've been trying to take it very, very carefully." Away from the golf course Spieth has been a busy man, after being appointed to the PGA Tour's Policy Board as a Player Director on the back of Rory McIlroy's resignation.
Spieth takes on the the position in one of the most important periods in professional golf with the Tour currently working on a groundbreaking framework agreement with the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia. Opening up on what his director job entails, he commented: "I'd been pretty involved since June in a lot of stuff going on and so I didn't -- doesn't really change a whole lot of what I've been involved in other than kind of officially being able to know, be in the know a little bit more.
"And I thought the other player directors and a lot of other players had to pretty much have the confidence for me to kind of be the guy to help be that sixth vote, that majority the board to help see through what the next at least few months looks like.
"And then for me it's nice because it's not a full term, which I had said that I wasn't interested in for the time being given two little ones now and trying to get my game where I want it. ButI think that this is a pivotal moment in time for professional golf and the PGA Tour and I felt like I could be of help."