Jordan Spieth says Adam Scott holds an ‘amazing’ record which he now wants to challenge one day

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Jordan Spieth enters the PGA Championship with a chance of winning the Career Grand Slam.

If he won at Aronimink, it would be at the 10th time of asking, but becoming the seventh man to win all four major championships isn’t the only thing that’s on Spieth’s mind ahead of this year’s event.

Instead, he took time to credit 2013 Masters winner Adam Scott for an “amazing” record that he hopes to one day compete for.

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Jordan Spieth says Adam Scott’s major record is ‘amazing’

This will be Spieth’s 53rd major championship of his 14-year career, and his 51st in a row, but he’s barely even scratched Scott’s major championship record.

When he tees off at Aronimink, Scott will have played in 99 straight major championships, second all-time, only to the great Jack Nicklaus. That’s incredible longevity and availability.

It’s a record that Spieth is in awe of, and he hopes to be able to contend with it one day. Speaking before the PGA Championship, he said, “Yeah, it’s not only maintaining your health but maintaining that level of play, and I know he — when did he get through?

“He went through the U.S. Open qualifier in the last couple years — yeah, two years ago, because he ended up winning or getting second in Colorado that year, too. He was later — I think in ’24 — I got it wrong.

“But anyway, what a testament to being healthy, doing things the right way, and then being that good for that long. The health is probably the hardest part because there’s obviously a number of guys who — some of the best players to ever play the game that you would have thought would have made that list and didn’t because they were out for injury.