This is no eulogy because those are for the dead, and despite how dead they looked on Friday the Americans are still alive. But the US team and their Ryder Cup aspirations are on life support, and the priest is on call for last rights.
For the United States side to pull off something it hasn’t done in 30 years, its fate will probably rest on the Thomas of now remembering how to be the Thomas of old.
Mike Thomas could only laugh. Having just completed a four-hour practice session with his son, two-time major winner Justin Thomas, on Wednesday morning, he was amused to learn that his role as his son’s teacher had changed. News reports Wednesday suggested that Justin had struck out on his own, parting ways with putting coach John Read more…
If you haven’t participated in the “Justin Thomas: Should he or shouldn’t he?” Ryder Cup discourse over the past couple weeks, let me give you a brief summary in the form of a dialogue:
Justin Thomas has traditionally made a personal list of goals ahead of each PGA Tour season and tracked the results, but this year he decided to track something else as well. And the results are pretty crazy.
After a week of frantic movement as players ricocheted up and down the projected rankings, Glover didn’t just win; he was the only player who started the week outside the FedEx Cup Playoffs cutline who managed to change his fortunes.
If the Wyndham Championship winds up being Justin Thomas’ final tournament of the 2022-2023 PGA Tour season, the man quite literally went down swinging.
Links golf is a multi-faceted affair, one that asks an often-dizzying array of questions all the way from driver to putter. That is why so many believe golf in the land where the game began is the ultimate test, both mentally and physically.
For Thomas, the move represents a fresh start. The two-time major winner has fallen to 20th in the Official World Golf Ranking after an ugly missed cut at the US Open, a moment he called the lowest of his professional career.
Wyndham Clark, still waiting to hit his wedge shot from the fairway, then asked Thomas to mark his ball to avoid the possibility it could impede his own approach once it hit the green.
Australian Golf Digest
