Justin Thomas adamant he's "really, really close" to playing good golf
- Doug Mattushek
- 2 August 2023
Former world number one Justin Thomas believes he is on the cusp of turning his disappointing season around.
Justin Thomas knows he's better than recent results suggest...
A solo fourth-place finish at the Phoenix Open back in February is all Thomas has really had to celebrate so far this year. The American has now missed the cut in five out of his last seven events, including at last week's 3M Open.
As a result, Thomas is in real danger of missing the lucrative FedEx Cup Playoff series for the first time in seven years. In fact, he's down in 79th on the Fex Ex Cup standings. His dip in form has also put him well outside automatic qualification for the upcoming Ryder Cup, where he's down in 14th.
All this is rather perplexing, given Thomas claimed his second major title at the PGA Championship just 14 months ago at Southern Hills in Oaklahoma.
Nonetheless, Thomas remains resolute that he can turn things around at the business end of the season...
"I know I'm really, really close to playing some really, really good golf," the 17-time PGA Tour winner told
Golf Monthly.
"The reality is, you know, I need to play well this week to give that an opportunity to come out. That's the unfortunate but also realistic part of where I'm at right now."
That turnaround can't come any sooner than this week, where Thomas tees off at the Wyndham Championship. The Kentucky native has fond memories of Wyndham, as he became the third-youngest to make the cut in a PGA Tour event at 16 years old back in 2009.
"I have an opportunity to play well this week, get into the Playoffs and to go to three courses that I love.
"I have a chance to have one of the craziest endings to a PGA Tour season and I'm going to try to do that.
"I'm obviously not playing as well as I have in the past, but I'm really not playing that poorly. I haven't really gotten much out of my rounds. You know, like on Friday last week at 3M, I had two swings that literally cost me five strokes on Friday.
"If those swings go how they normally do in any other situation, you know, I'm like 15th heading into the weekend instead of missing the cut. It's just been kind of one of those seasons, I guess, if you will."
