Jordan Spieth looks to get game together at PGA Championship - ESPN

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — There have been times this season that Jordan Spieth's form has left him feeling like he's playing whack-a-mole.

«If you look at the stats, yeah, it's a whack-a-mole situation because I have had weeks where I'm leading in putting, weeks where I'm leading in driving, weeks where I am leading in ball-striking, and then I just haven't been able to kind of put them all together,» Spieth said Monday.

If Spieth, 32, can figure out how to put everything together in this week's PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club, he would become only the seventh golfer to complete the career Grand Slam.

It will be Spieth's 10th attempt at trying to win the PGA Championship since he won his third major in the 2017 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in England. He captured both the Masters and U.S. Open in his third season on the PGA Tour in 2015.

«It would be amazing, right, because it's just a very, very short list in history,» Spieth said.

The closest Spieth came to getting it done was a tie for third at Bethpage Black Golf Course in Farmingdale, New York, where he finished five shots behind winner Brooks Koepka in 2019.

Since then, Spieth hasn't finished in the top 25 in each of his past six starts, including a missed cut last year.

«Just winning this tournament in general would be very special,» Spieth said. «The Ryder Cup's been such an important part of my life, and The PGA of America, having my instructor that I've been with for pretty much my whole career be a PGA of America professional, so there's many reasons. „But obviously with having won the other three, that's the one that everyone focuses on. But when I'm out here, and certainly when I get out on the golf course, I've been in contention a