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.
Why guess what it’s like to live like a PGA Tour superstar when you can know. Justin Thomas just upgraded to a $US13.5 million pad in Jupiter, Florida, so his $US3.65 million “starter home” is on the market.
Making mistakes is an inherent part of golf: attempting to hit a hero shot instead of punching out, misreading putts, even white belts, for pity’s sake. However, the biggest danger facing modern golfers is Twitter.
While the scheduled Wednesday through Saturday playing of last year’s Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines was originally met with some disappointment and skepticism—and then it nearly went into Sunday when the playoff between winner Luke List and Will Zalatoris ran late—there wasn’t a lot of complaining on the players’ end.
Tiger Woods was an instrumental voice in spurring the widespread, sweeping changes that have come to the PGA Tour, although most of that work was done behind the scenes.