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And so we have arrived at only one tournament from the end of the Regular Season of the Pga Tour: once the curtain has fallen on this week’s Wyndham Championship, we will enter the final phase of the Fedex playoffs, with the first 70 players in the standings who will detach the ticket for the first of the three final appointments.
Justin Thomas, situation
It will therefore be a seven days of fire for all those guys on the Pga Tour who up to now are still outside the door that opens up access to the FedEX St.
Jude Championship on August 10: among them, to earn their place in the top 70 of the Pga Tour, in addition to Adam Scott and Shane Lowry, there is also Justin Thomas, the one who has perhaps suffered the worst collapse in the standings among these three.
A collapse that, reading the statistics, smoldered for a while, starting from the performance on the greens at first fluctuating and then totally insufficient, to then infect the whole American’s game.To say: in the last 6 tournaments played, Justin Thomas has missed the cut 4 times, but that’s not all: he also scored two scores over 80 strokes both at the US Open and at the Open Championship.
These are numbers that certainly are not expected from a champion of the American caliber, who, among other things, is also playing for a place in the Ryder Cup stars and stripes team this week.
It’s a really bad time, therefore, for Justin, a little golfing king since childhood, who, given his precociousness and successes, has so far lacked the experience of frustration and failure: the man who will emerge alive from this phase, it will be a completely different Thomas, more resilient and empowered.
But obviously, first of all, it will be necessary to get out of the aforementioned tunnel, perhaps even talking about it, exactly as Justin is doing in front of the microphones, claiming his right to failure.In a world that, in a crescendo of expectations, enhances performance and that individualism that often leads to solitude, a champion who instead speaks openly of his own difficulties performs a revolutionary act: from an unattainable star he transforms into a normal being, restoring the value of humanity.
In the meantime, you change your putt, drive or swing, aware of the fact that good golf is like life: you can’t push it, he arrives. Sooner or later.
