Justin Thomas emerged victorious at Harbour City on Sunday as he picked up his sixteenth profession PGA Tour victory on the RBC Heritage. It took a playoff gap to get there, the fifth playoff on Tour this season, however that solely added to the depth of all of it.
Apparently the occasion marked the 250th begin of Thomas’ profession so a conversion on 16 of them places his profession profitable proportion at 6.4%. Placing it that means could sound paltry, however that is skilled golf the place profitable is very tough. Context is required.
Contemplate that Thomas continues to be solely 31 years outdated (for just a bit bit longer if we’re being technical). His securing of win quantity 16 makes him simply the 58th participant in Tour historical past to get there and he’s now tied for 54th all time by way of wins (Jack Burke, Jr., Ralph Guldahl, Mark O’Meara, Tom Weiskopf).
JT has at all times been a passionate participant who appears to thrive when the lights are brightest. We may provide that his Atlanta Drive profitable the inaugural TGL season is proof of that, however clearly there are a selection of opinions on the league at massive.
Contemplate another marks then relative to Justin Thomas that display his love for the proverbial second:
As famous, Thomas gained in a playoff in opposition to Andrew Novak. He’s now 5-2 in profession playoffs. Clutch.
Thomas additionally notably turned the primary participant to transform an 18-hole lead right into a win this season. He’s actually able to carrying that burden in a big-time occasion. Clearly this wasn’t a significant and was truly the week following one, however that’s not simple and this was certainly a signature occasion at that. JT has now transformed 5 of 12 attainable first-round leads, by the best way.
Lastly, whereas JT did maintain the first-round lead in Hilton Head (the second- as nicely) he misplaced it following the third spherical. Talking technically, because of this his victory was finally of the come-from-behind selection. Half of his profession victories have concerned storming again from some type of deficit, to not point out the final 5 particularly, most memorably amongst them the 2022 PGA Championship the place at one level he was down 7 strokes.
The world of golf felt inconceivable to ever contextualize following Rory McIlroy’s win at The Masters, however only one week later Justin Thomas helped reaffirm that a number of elite careers will be taking place in parallel of each other.
