Jordan Spieth’s return to form at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am on Thursday was very welcome indeed.

Spieth has really struggled with his game over the past four years and has no PGA Tour wins to his name since his last victory in April 2022.

However, the 32-year-old showed signs that he could be back to somewhere near his best with a round of six-under-par 66 on day one of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am on Thursday.

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Spieth recently insisted he has very high hopes for the 2026 PGA Tour season but many golf fans and pundits alike have been questioning whether his best days are actually behind him.

Despite his underwhelming form over the past few years, Spieth is still one of the PGA Tour’s biggest stars and his fans would have loved what they saw from him on day one at Spyglass Hill.

The challenge for the three-time major champion now will be to follow up his opening round at Spyglass with another round in the mid-60s on Friday.

Then his fans might really start to believe that he could be on his way back to the summit of the game.

However, is his new swing ready to contend, let alone win on the PGA Tour?

Jordan Spieth makes admission about his golf swing after being in a ‘bad mental place’

Spieth has rebuilt his swing over the past six months and it finally seems to be paying off for him.

The 13-time PGA Tour winner was in far better form on the Monterey Peninsula on Thursday than he was last week in Phoenix.

After a missed cut at TPC Scottsdale, Spieth would have been desperate to bounce back at Pebble Beach this week.

And that’s exactly what he did during his opening round at Spyglass Hill.

The man from Dallas, Texas, responded when asked how his new swing feels after months and months of very hard work.

“Yeah, I thought I was really good on and around the greens,“ he said.

“I actually didn’t hit many greens for how kind of well I thought I was swinging the club.

“I feel like it’s solid. It’s in a great spot. It’s just the consistency and the tightness of the face control now so that just comes with playing more tournaments. You know, it’s one thing to — I’ll go do performance practice on the range and just be as good as ever, but bringing it to the course, sidehill lie, wind changes, pins tucked, that kind of stuff.

“I just haven’t played many rounds since August and it really got really good since August with a lot of work.

“So hopefully as I continue to play in more and more rounds here, it just gets better every day. I’m not worried about it getting too far off or anything like that, I’m just trying to tighten it up just a little bit one day at a time.“

The real test of Spieth’s new swing will come when he’s actually in contention to win, when the nerves start to kick in.

Will this week come too early for him in that regard? Only time will tell.

Jordan Spieth was in a bad place mentally

Spieth was asked if he worked on anything in particular after missing the cut last week at the WM Phoenix Open.

“I got in a bad kind of mental place Friday,“ Spieth admitted.

“I was swinging it well and I decided to tell myself I wasn’t. I just had a bad day.

“But things are better than what they seem there. That was just kind of a strange deal. I came up here, I played a fun round with my brother on Sunday morning at Pebble. I hit a few balls Saturday when we got in. But I played Pebble and Cypress in the same day, Sunday.

“Just had a fun day. Played a loop, we didn’t play them all. Then just once Monday hit, it was just get prepared for a normal week and just throw it out the window. I mean, it was just an off day and a week that is typically a really good one for me.

“The last five, six years it’s a big springboard for me, Phoenix is, and I thought let’s just forget about it and use this as our pseudo-Phoenix and try to get dialled in with — really on Monday I thought was kind of an important day just given the weather Tuesday and Wednesday.

“So I didn’t — I haven’t played nine through 18 at Pebble since Sunday morning, but the conditions we had Sunday morning were similar to what we have tomorrow. And I’ve played the course obviously plenty of times.

“So get out there and try to go off this momentum. This is more of how I feel I’ve been, I just thought I had a fluke kind of crappy day, woke up on the wrong side of the bed kind of day last Friday.“

Spieth is clearly feeling a lot happier about his game at Pebble Beach this week than he was in Phoenix last week.

‘He seems to be so strong mentally that he is able to chalk up his poor showing in Arizona as a one-off.

All eyes will be on Spieth over the next few days as he looks to return to the winner’s circle for the first time in nearly four years.