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Justin Thomas

　　On March 15th, Beijing time, the 27-year-old American player Justin Thomas handed in a nearly perfect answer sheet at the right time, leaving behind a difficult start of the year. On Sunday, Florida time, he chased up from 3 strokes behind, and with a bold play, he surrendered 68 strokes, 4 strokes below par, and won the “Fifth Big Game” Players Championship.

　　Justin Thomas’s four-round score was 274 (71-71-64-68), which was 14 under-par, from a total of 15 million US dollars in prize money to 2.7 million US dollars, another 600 FedEx Cup points and 80 world points. He became the fourth player in history to win a Grand Slam, Players Championship, FedEx Cup and World Golf Championship. What’s even better is the timing for him to do this.

　　He said that his performance from the tee to the green can be compared to any time in his career. Obviously he needs this to beat the “white tiger” Lee Westwood. The latter was unlucky and finished runner-up for the second consecutive week. The 47-year-old Lee Westwood was overtaken by Bryson DeChambeau at the Arnold Palmer Invitational last week and lost one shot. In the last hole of TPC Sawgrass, he caught a 15-foot birdie, but also lost by one shot.

Lee Westwood shot 72, four rounds of 275 (69-66-68-72), 13 under-par, and received a check of $1.635 million for second place.

　　Although Bryson DeChambeau launched a counterattack on the last nine holes, including the 11-foot eagle on the 16th hole, it was still not enough. He handed over 71, 276 (69-69-67-71), 12 under par, no bogey with the last 12 holes, and Brian Harman (Brian Harman) who handed over 69 in two consecutive rounds. Harman) tied for third place. Despite this, he still retained the top spot in the FedEx Cup standings.

England star Paul Casey shot 70, American Talor Gooch (Talor Gooch) shot 67, and the two were tied for fifth with 277, 11 under par.

Spain’s Joan Ram also entered the top ten. Even with a 73 in the final round, he is still tied for ninth, but after this week, his world ranking will be surpassed by Justin Thomas, the latter. Moved from third to second place.

The world’s No. 1 Dustin Johnson was out of form for the entire week, with 287 (73-70-73-71), 1 under par, and Jordan Spieth (75) and other players, tied for the position 48 bits.

　　Justin Thomas had a bad start this year. In the Sentinel Championship, he missed a short putt and whispered an anti-gay remark. Unfortunately, this almost inaudible swear word was picked up by the microphone and sent out via TV relay, which led to his long-time clothing sponsor Ralph Lauren (Ralph Lauren) choosing to cut with him, and another sponsor Shang condemned him publicly. Justin Thomas had a chance to win the Phoenix Open, but he heard the news of his grandfather’s death before the start of the final round.

　　Indeed, golf is Thomas’ family study, and his grandfather is also a coach. Justin Thomas was obviously hit by this news, and Phoenix’s ranking slipped to a tie for 13, and then was eliminated in the Genesis Invitational. It wasn’t until this Sunday that he had a counterattack moment in TPC Sawgrass. He worked hard every stroke and delivered a wonderful performance.

　　Justin Thomas won the birdie-birdie-eagle-birdie at the transition, because two transitional long pushes from 50 feet away completely defeated Lee Westwood, one of which happened at the 16th hole. The par five. He caught the bird with two pushes, while the No. 17 island green hole put two pars.

　　Nevertheless, Justin Thomas still needs a good shot to be safe. Facing the water obstacle on the left side of the fairway on the 18th hole, he bravely hit a ball out, the ballistic from right to left, bounced from the crown of the first layer of grass, and landed safely on the fairway.

He attacked the green and sent the ball to the skirt of the green. This was the first time he missed the green in the whole day. However, in any case, he succeeded with two pushes and won the 14th PGA Tour victory of his career.

“Today I worked hard,” Justin Thomas said. “From the tee to the green, this may be the best round of my life. I have seen some crazy things on TV in the past, and I am very happy that I am in On the right side.”

　　Crazy things must have happened today, but they all happened early in the morning. Bryson De Chambeau had just won the championship at Bay Hill. He hit a shaved head on the par-4 on the fourth hole. As a result, the ball only flew for about 140 yards and then plunged into the water. Starting from the front tee, there was about 230 yards from the green defended by the water barrier. He hit the ball with a 5 iron, hit a squeeze, and sent it to the right of the green about 40 yards.

“Good guy! I really don’t know what happened!” he said to the caddy, “I have never done anything like this before.”

　　Bryson DeChambeau swallowed a double bogey, but he played well in the rest of the time and stayed in the championship. When he shot the eagle on the 16th hole, he still had a chance. He was within 2 shots at the time, but when Justin Thomas was parsing the 17th hole, his hope of winning almost disappeared.

　　Lee Westwood kicked off on the fourth hole and had to put in an 8-foot putt to save a bogey. In addition to the second hole, par 5, he attacked the green from the pine needles, the small ball hit two branches, and then went into the water, causing him to bogey.

　　But he is not far from the leader. In fact, with an 8-foot birdie putt on the 14th hole, he regained a tie lead.

　　His chance was on the 16th hole, the par 5 hole began to disappear. In the second shot, he hit a big oak tree and fell into the sand. He hit the bunker in front of the green with his third shot. Without catching a birdie to level Justin Thomas, who started in the previous group, Lee Westwood could only save par, and the result was maintained after one shot.

　　On the 17th hole, the Englishman had a long birdie putt, and he pushed through the hole 7 feet. He faced another key par putt, but he missed it.

　　Justin Thomas is still outside the elimination line after finishing nine holes on Friday. However, he shot a 64 on Saturday and entered the championship. Today he started with 7 pars and bogeyed on the eighth hole with three pushes. But on the 9th hole, he hit the green with two shots and birdied with two putts from 25 feet. Then on the 10th hole, he shot from 131 yards to 6 feet to catch a bird. On the 11th hole, he pushed into a 20-foot eagle putt on the par five. On the 12th hole, he was only 75 feet away after the kick-off. Then he hit 12 inches to the hole and caught the dead bird against the best team of the year and finally won.

　　This ended the first anniversary of the suspension of the PGA Tour. Justin Thomas is a member of the Players Advisory Committee and participated in the behind-the-scenes work of the season restart. At the awards ceremony, he stood beside Jay Monahan, the president of the PGA Tour, who must be very happy that after a year, the tour is back on track. For Justin Thomas, the normal time for recovery is three months. He finally got out of the haze of anti-homosexuality and the death of his grandfather.

(This article is from the official website of the China Golf Association and is owned by the original author.)