Jordan Spieth had perfect response after PGA Championship message from Rory McIlroy
Jordan Spieth wasn’t convinced after Rory McIlroy suggested he could soon join him in the career Grand Slam club. The American is looking to follow in McIlroy‘s footsteps by completing the set of golf majors at the upcoming US PGA Championship, which kicks off next week. Rory McIlroy finally got his hands on a famous Green Jacket in AprilGetty After the Northern Irishman finally ended a more than decade-long wait to win all four major titles with victory at the Masters in April, Spieth has a shot at doing the same this month. The 31-year-old has already triumphed at the Augusta National in 2015, as well as the 2015 US Open and the 2017 Open Championship. He is now bidding to join McIlroy, Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, and Tiger Woods as the seventh man in the history of the sports to complete the career Grand Slam. Spieth will be targeting his fourth major at the Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, which will host the 2025 US PGA. But he will face stiff competition to get his hands on the trophy, not least from McIlroy, who is something of a specialist at the venue. Quail Hollow is typically the host of a PGA Tour event, the Truist Championship which was previously known as the Wells Fargo, which the 36-year-old has won four times. With the competition taking place this week at the changed location of the Philadelphia Cricket Ground, both Spieth and McIlroy have been out on the course as they gear up for their last event before the second major of the year. And the US golf star was only too aware of his rival’s dominance in North Carolina, as he gave a quick-witted response on his chances of victory whilst gearing up for the Truist Championship. According to Golf.com’s Jack Hirsh, Spieth approached McIlroy to congratulate him on his career Grand Slam achievement. The reigning Masters champion then suggested it would be Spieth’s turn next week, only for him to jokingly reply: “Yeah, at the Rory McIlroy Country Club…” View Tweet: https://t.co/eKVT0VHeRf GettyMcIlroy and Spieth have been exchanging niceties as they prepare to do battle in the second major of the golfing calendar[/caption] McIlroy is the defending champion at Quail Hollow after winning last year’s PGA Tour eventGetty McIlroy has tasted victory at Quail Hollow as recently as 2024, winning last year’s event to add to his previous titles in 2010, 2015 and 2021. Adding to his chances of further glory, he is also a two-time US PGA winner, coming out on top in 2012 and 2014. Having freed himself of the mental baggage of going nearly 11 years without winning a major in Augusta, McIlroy heads into next week’s championship as a strong favourite. Spieth meanwhile, finds himself in a similar position to McIlroy’s of a month ago, having gone eight years since his last major victory at the Open in 2017. His best ever finish at the US PGA came in 2015, when he finished as runner-up to Jason Day, and came tied for third in 2019. Both players will also be wary of the threat posed by defending champion Xander Schauffele, who claimed his maiden major at Valhalla Golf Club last year. GettySpieth won his first major at the age of 21 at the 2015 Masters[/caption] McIlroy and Spieth will both get their Truist Championship campaigns underway on Thursday, with the event running from May 8 until the Sunday, May 11. They will then face off at the US PGA, which starts on Thursday, May 15 and run until Sunday, May 18.
Jordan Spieth wasn’t convinced after Rory McIlroy suggested he could soon join him in the career Grand Slam club.
The American is looking to follow in McIlroy‘s footsteps by completing the set of golf majors at the upcoming US PGA Championship, which kicks off next week.
After the Northern Irishman finally ended a more than decade-long wait to win all four major titles with victory at the Masters in April, Spieth has a shot at doing the same this month.
The 31-year-old has already triumphed at the Augusta National in 2015, as well as the 2015 US Open and the 2017 Open Championship.
He is now bidding to join McIlroy, Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, and Tiger Woods as the seventh man in the history of the sports to complete the career Grand Slam.
Spieth will be targeting his fourth major at the Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, which will host the 2025 US PGA.
But he will face stiff competition to get his hands on the trophy, not least from McIlroy, who is something of a specialist at the venue.
Quail Hollow is typically the host of a PGA Tour event, the Truist Championship which was previously known as the Wells Fargo, which the 36-year-old has won four times.
With the competition taking place this week at the changed location of the Philadelphia Cricket Ground, both Spieth and McIlroy have been out on the course as they gear up for their last event before the second major of the year.
And the US golf star was only too aware of his rival’s dominance in North Carolina, as he gave a quick-witted response on his chances of victory whilst gearing up for the Truist Championship.
According to Golf.com’s Jack Hirsh, Spieth approached McIlroy to congratulate him on his career Grand Slam achievement.
The reigning Masters champion then suggested it would be Spieth’s turn next week, only for him to jokingly reply: “Yeah, at the Rory McIlroy Country Club…”
McIlroy has tasted victory at Quail Hollow as recently as 2024, winning last year’s event to add to his previous titles in 2010, 2015 and 2021.
Adding to his chances of further glory, he is also a two-time US PGA winner, coming out on top in 2012 and 2014.
Having freed himself of the mental baggage of going nearly 11 years without winning a major in Augusta, McIlroy heads into next week’s championship as a strong favourite.
Spieth meanwhile, finds himself in a similar position to McIlroy’s of a month ago, having gone eight years since his last major victory at the Open in 2017.
His best ever finish at the US PGA came in 2015, when he finished as runner-up to Jason Day, and came tied for third in 2019.
Both players will also be wary of the threat posed by defending champion Xander Schauffele, who claimed his maiden major at Valhalla Golf Club last year.
McIlroy and Spieth will both get their Truist Championship campaigns underway on Thursday, with the event running from May 8 until the Sunday, May 11.
They will then face off at the US PGA, which starts on Thursday, May 15 and run until Sunday, May 18.
