Justin Thomas spoke to the media at the PLAYERS Championship where he was asked about his recent competitive struggles, how to improve professional golf, and his confidence level in PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan.
Yeah I feel good about my game I I feel like things are are um are very very close in terms of of winning tournaments uh I I feel and know that I’m playing well enough to win tournaments it’s just at this point about actually doing it um
You know I think it’s like a lot of us start putting a little too much pressure on ourselves and and uh you know I sometimes want a little bit too bad so just staying patient and just trying to let it let it come to me and let it
Happen and hopefully it happens sooner rather later I think it’s it’s easy to overlook at least for me personally it’s it’s hard to give myself credit when things are going well is how I would um maybe best describe it and I mean it’s hard to say it without
Really sounding cocky or arrogant but like I played really really good golf for you know six seven years and and um while it was happening you know of course I would never sit here tell you I would tell you about all the things I would want to do
Better and why this should have been better because we’re golfers that’s what we do but yeah sometimes when it’s not going well it’s easier to sit back and look like all right damn like I I was I was playing really well and I was doing a
Lot of things well and I was in contention you know a lot more than anybody else I did all these different things and and I just think when you’re in that moment or when it’s going on you sometimes can lose that um you you can just lose that view of it
So it’s more just trying to get back and like I have been enjoying it and and enjoying the competition and uh just trying to put myself there and win tournaments because that’s it’s more fun than anything I mean the the one thing that I would say uh as a whole that I
Like the most is just that when you have all the best players playing together as often as possible um I mean obviously you can’t have an you know not every NFL game is a pro bowl but essentially it is right I mean you have it’s all the best and um in their
Specific Sport and it’s an extremely small percentage in in the grand scheme of things of of how many play professionally in their sport but they are all kind of whatever it’s you know there’s nothing better than Sundays when you can just sit in the couch and you just get to watch you know
Just some freak athletes go play football and hit each other and all day I mean it’s so I don’t know but that’s kind of the main thing I feel like I’ve I feel like would be uh is is is beneficial to fans and is beneficial to
Us I mean I I was talking to coach Sewell this week our coach at Alabama and we talked about our team and we talked about how the practices and and and when we played and you know how competitive Bobby Wyatt was and Cory woodset and Trey molx Hunter hamricks
Scott Strow like Tom love lady all these guys and it was like we we truly feel like we were better because we played around each other and practiced with each other and I think the same is to be said for at a competitive level I mean I
Know Jordan and I fed off each other in 2017 2018 2016 and we kind of pushed each other a little bit we may not have had a conversation about it but I know internally I don’t want him to beat me uh and I’m pretty sure he feels the same
Way so I think getting all the the best players in the world together more often is just going to create more and more competitive nature and which I guess would result in a better product more than anything is I’m trying to not um I
Mean I was I was this way kind of when the tour championship format changed it’s like look I didn’t like it it’s still not my favorite but you have to give something time um it’s and I that’s how I’m trying to be with how these tournaments are like and I think from my
Understanding it sounds like that’s what a lot of the board members or Jay or people are saying is that we need to give it this a little bit of time to see if it works I mean pretty much anything any League sport whatever has tried ever
Has been really their best guess of what they think is best and then if it isn’t they change it and do something differently and if it is good you stick with it so um you know hopefully the the choices we’ve made have been the best choices and we can just keep on keeping
On uh I know that it’s it’s gone way I shouldn’t say way deeper but it’s just way bigger than Jay I think Jay is just a part of the huge group of people that has been pushing for all the changes and um and progress that the tour has been making so I’ve
I’ve been pleased with um with all the you know the latest stuff that’s been happening and been going on and and Jay’s been a part of that group uh so you know I I think it it’s this is a lot bigger than one person sitting there and you know making all the decisions
Understand he he has his role but um you know there’s a there’s a really really big group of of people and players that are that are involved now that I think are making a wholesome decision for for all of us
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Hmm
I wonder what went off the rails with this legendary talent. This dude was thought of as perhaps the best player in the world. I gotta believe he regains form
He loves his father more than his game. His dad should realize when to let go and the time is now.
The bottom line is the PGAT doesn't want to give up their monopoly.
He should lose his arrogance….and then maybe he'll do better….bashing LIV players is pathetic.
It’s tough at that level to be millimetres away from greatness as you struggle not to miss the cut. Golf.
Wyndham Clark is a man among playing among these boys.
You'll regain form when u stick with your fade,your putting is brutal, u need to start making some putts
The Cabal!