Jordan Spieth makes heartbreaking injury confession he deals with every morning

Jordan Spieth is currently preparing to take on the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow and has opened up on the injury he is still battling after surgery last year

Jordan Spieth revealed that he still experiences pain every morning, but remains optimistic about his chances of achieving a career grand slam - something he's called the "elephant in the room."

Following wrist surgery last year, Spieth has been enjoying the benefits of a stress-free life both on and off the golf course after a long-standing battle with injury. However, he is still aware of the lingering effects.

Speaking ahead of the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow, where he is fully aware of Rory McIlroy's impact, Spieth shared an alarming admission that his left hand is double the size of his right every morning due to swelling.

When asked how much his wrist injury has affected his mindset, he said: "Less and less as the year has gone on, which is great. It's hard to tell if it was preventing anything that I could or couldn't do, so I'm not going to say that it's everything. But just the ease of not worrying about it dislocating, I guess, or subluxing, I think, is the term for this specific, is really nice.

"Just off the course, I'm able to pick my kids up and throw them around, and my wrist doesn't dislocate. You can imagine that's a good feeling. So when I'm golfing, I haven't really been thinking about it the last couple of months.

"I wake up in the morning, I'm very aware I had surgery. My left feels twice the size of my right for about a half hour every morning. They say that stops about a year post-op, and it's getting - some days are better than others. I haven't exactly given it a lot of rest in the last few months, and I'm sure that will help once we hit the off-season.

"It's still there, very much so. I'm still aware, but I'm not worried about the same thing happening anymore thanks to the doctors that I've had and their rehab process that I went through. It was a lot of hard work. Last fall and into the winter, physically and mentally, it was one of the hardest things that I've had to do.

"Anybody who's come back from an injury, you want to be out there doing more and more and more, especially when I -- it's not like I was top five in the world last year, right? I felt like I was going to be coming from behind, and I wasn't able to do much while other guys were getting better. So just a hard, hard process to be patient with, especially for me.

"It tested every bit of what I could do, and I went by the book. By the time I was able to play, I think I played well and was kind of in contention in Phoenix, and I was just like, man, I am just incredibly grateful just to be back out here doing this because there was months where you're going through the process wondering if or when that would happen again.

"I didn't expect this year to be a ridiculous year. It's going to be something that I needed to work slowly towards with a long-term outlook, and I think it's going really well so far. I've got a big stretch and a lot of good opportunities coming up and a lot less distractions on it than I had last year."