Jordan Spieth, inspired by McIlroy's Masters win, eyes career Grand Slam - ESPN

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — When Rory McIlroy recently suggested to Jordan Spieth that he would be the next golfer to complete the career Grand Slam at this week's PGA Championship, Spieth jokingly referred to Quail Hollow Club as the «Country Club of Rory McIlroy.»

McIlroy is the only four-time winner of the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow, and he's among the favorites to win a third Wanamaker Trophy after finally capturing a green jacket at Augusta National last month.

Spieth can become the seventh golfer to achieve the career Grand Slam if he wins the PGA Championship. It will be his ninth attempt trying to do it since he captured his last major championship victory at the 2017 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in England. He also won the Masters and U.S. Open in 2015.

«There's been a number of years I've come to the PGA, and no one's really asked me about it,» Spieth said Tuesday during a news conference at Quail Hollow. «There's been some years where it was a storyline, I guess. It's funny, I think if Rory didn't [do it at the Masters], then it wouldn't have been a storyline for me here necessarily.»

While McIlroy and world No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler are the betting favorites to win at Quail Hollow, this might be one of Spieth's best chances, especially since he seems to have recovered from surgery in August to repair a torn tendon sheath in his left wrist.

Spieth said his post-surgery symptoms have been «less and less» as the year has gone on, although he said his left wrist feels like it's twice the size of his right one for about a half-hour each morning. Doctors told him that feeling would go away about a year after surgery.

«It's hard to tell if it was preventing anything that I could or couldn't