{"id":737018,"date":"2026-07-01T14:10:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/737018\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T14:10:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:10:31","slug":"jordan-spieth-returns-to-john-deere-with-eye-on-royal-birkdale-and-fedexcup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/737018\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Spieth returns to John Deere with eye on Royal Birkdale and FedExCup"},"content":{"rendered":"

CROMWELL, Conn. \u2014 Jordan Spieth altered his schedule with one eye toward his return to Royal Birkdale and another on his standing in the FedExCup.<\/p>\n

For only the second time in the 11 years since he last won the John Deere Classic, Spieth is returning to the Deere and will skip the Scottish Open the following week.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to add an event,\u201d Spieth said Sunday after the Travelers Championship. \u201cI thought unless I went to Birkdale before the Scottish, I\u2019m not going to get in until Sunday night. The majors this year, I\u2019ve liked the ones I\u2019ve been to early and played prior to the week, just because the practice rounds are brutal. So the plan was to do that early.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead of the Scottish Open \u2014 he has missed the cut his past two times \u2014 he plans to arrive at Royal Birkdale on the weekend. The Lancashire links where he delivered a dynamic finish to win in 2017 is slightly different. The fifth hole has been reshaped. Plus, the par-5 15th is now the 14th hole, and a new par-3 15th hole follows.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s more, of course.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m around 50th in the FedExCup, and that\u2019s a big deal,\u201d Spieth said. \u201cNow I\u2019ll do the Deere, potentially Minnesota (the week after The Open) and potentially Greensboro (the final regular-season event).<\/p>\n

He tied for 66th in the 72-man field at the Travelers, one week after he tied for 56th in the U.S. Open. That dropped him out of the top 50 to No. 52. And it\u2019s a big deal. The top 50 are in all the signature events for 2027, and last year Spieth finished 54th.<\/p>\n

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The John Deere Classic tees off in America\u2019s Heartland on Thursday. Here\u2019s when the first round begins and how to watch all the action live from Silvis, Illinois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CROMWELL, Conn. \u2014 Jordan Spieth altered his schedule with one eye toward his return to Royal Birkdale and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-737018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}