Jordan Spieth Set To Compete At PGA Championship

His bid for the first Grand Slam in golf's modern era ended last month, but Jordan Spieth promises he isn't hanging his head entering this week's PGA Championship.

"Unlike the first two majors, I had a chance to win and I didn't pull it off," Spieth said Wednesday in advance of the year's final major. "That was the hardest part to get over for me. It wasn't coming here, trying to win a Grand Slam. ... So this week, I'm looking to try and get myself into that position again and see if I can improve on it."

Since the advent of the Masters Tournament in 1934, only two players -- Ben Hogan in 1953 and Tiger Woods in 2000 -- have claimed three major championship titles in a single season.

Spieth has a chance to join that exclusive club this week -- a possibility rendered all the more impressive by the fact that he turned 22 just two weeks ago. When asked about his ability to assimilate to major venues at such an early stage in his career, he simply explained that he had no other option.

"You either do it or you don't have a job," he said. "If you don't learn quickly how to play golf courses that you haven't played before, you're going to be very, very far behind. It's going to be tough to adjust. I don't know how, other than just realizing that it was live or die.

"We do a good job of dissecting the most important information on courses. We know where my misses are, what my tendencies are. We're able to dissect those early to then in practice rounds understand where I would commonly miss a shot and be able to practice from there. So then I have it in the tournament, and I've already seen it."