Jordan Spieth makes bold prediction about his 2027 PGA Tour season

Jordan Spieth says he knows his 2027 will be "awesome" regardless of how he finishes the season on the PGA Tour.

Spieth enters the weekend at the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis in contention, sitting tied for fifth at 6-under after rounds of 65 and 69.

He opened the FedExCup play-offs with a share of the first-round lead after a bogey-free 65 at TPC Southwind and remained within striking distance of leader Scottie Scheffler, who moved three shots clear after a course-record-tying 61 on Friday.

The position gives Spieth a chance to put an exclamation point on a fairly underwhelming season in which he feels his underlying statistics have been much better than his results suggest.

He is attempting to win on the PGA Tour for the first time since the 2022 RBC Heritage.

"Yeah, it was tough," Spieth said. "I think the tougher part was the last couple of years I was very clearly going in this direction [down]. I was not as good as I was earlier in the season."

Spieth said he also endured a prolonged lull this season, stretching from the Memorial Tournament through the Open Championship.

"I had a lull this season from essentially Memorial through the British where I was kind of trying to press something that I probably didn't need to, and it got me in trouble," he said.

"But I stayed on it for five or six weeks and didn't get many results there."

Despite that stretch, Spieth believes the rest of his season has been statistically strong.

He said a handful of missed opportunities to post top-20 finishes in bigger events left him with more pressure heading into the play-offs.

"The rest of the season statistically has been very good," Spieth said.

"I just missed a lot of those big events of just finishing in the top 20 like I did most of the other events this year, which would have left this week to be completely stress free."

A Spieth victory this season would be a significant moment for his career.

The 33-year-old has won 13 times on the PGA Tour, including three major championships.

His breakthrough came at the 2015 Masters, where he became the second-youngest winner in tournament history, and he followed that victory with a U.S. Open triumph at Chambers Bay later that year.

He won his third major title at the 2017 Open Championship.

But the period since his spectacular 2015-17 run has been defined in part by stretches without victories.

After winning the 2017 Open, Spieth went nearly four years before returning to the winner's circle at the 2021 Valero Texas Open.

He then won the RBC Heritage in April 2022, his 13th PGA Tour title. He has not won since.

Still, Spieth said he enters the latest stretch of the season with a markedly different perspective on his game than he had over the previous two years.

"I'm just in a very different place about the game of golf than I was the last couple seasons heading into this event," Spieth said.

That shift has allowed him to approach the week with less pressure, regardless of the result.

"Again, if it's going to work out, great," Spieth said. 

"If it doesn't, I know next year is going to be an awesome year for me. So it takes a lot of the stress off of this week."