Justin Thomas ‘excited’ with ‘great opportunity’ at Wyndham Championship
It’s a big week for Justin Thomas as he attempts to turn his fortunes around at the Wyndham Championship
Justin Thomas needs a good week if he is to make the FedEx Cup Playoffs. He is ‘excited’ for the ‘great opportunity’ he has at Sedgefield Country Club.
Just one event of the regular season remains, with the Wyndham Championship taking place at the Sedgefield Country Club.
“I was and am so excited to be playing this week. Like I said, it’s just, it’s a cool opportunity, it’s a great opportunity for me,” Thomas said.
“I just, I mean, I’ve been in the right frame of mind I feel like for the last kind of month or so. I’ve been in a lot better head space of just a feeling like really good things are coming. I feel like I’m going to play well this week. I also felt like I was going to play well at the U.S. Open and I finished what I felt was about last place.
“That’s also part of golf, you just don’t know what you’re going to get. One thing I definitely have learned is you need to be in the right head space and expect some good things to happen and at least that’s where I’m at, so we’ll see.”
Thomas is one of several big names who look like they could miss out on playing in the final three events of the 2022-2023 PGA Tour campaign.
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The American has been in poor form this season, and currently sits outside the top 70 in the FedEx Cup standings.
The two-time PGA Champion made just a single cut in the majors this year, while also shooting two rounds in the 80s.
It has been a season that has yielded twice the number of missed cuts compared to top-10 finishes. Thomas missed the cut at both the Open Championship and the 3M Open over the last two weeks.
However, he still has the chance at the Wyndham Championship to make it into that all-important top 70, and to play in the FedEx Cup Playoffs.
“I’m very confident, I am. It’s different than trying to win a tournament or making a putt for a Ryder Cup or Presidents Cup, whatever it may be, but it’s still that same feeling,” he explained.
“But this is a perfect — like this is golf. Like what is happening this year, it happens every single year. Someone of, I don’t — I mean, my calibre, you know, a top player, I’m not having a bad season, I just haven’t won anything, haven’t finished tournaments off how I want.
“I’m in a position where I might not make the Playoffs and there’s a lot of other good players that have, too. There’s also guys that maybe have been in this position I’m in right now that have played as well as I have other seasons. It’s like that is the reality of golf, like it’s all on you. You’re not relying on any teammates to bail you out, to hinder you, it’s all on you.”
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Matt Coles
Mention a European country, and Matt will tell you which resorts make the National Club Golfer Top 100s: European Resorts list. He might even throw in who designed the golf course and how many rooms the hotel has got at each one…
Matt got into the game of golf from a young age, following his old man to the local golf club. He fell for the sport, and now can’t seem to go a day without thinking about how to improve his game (Thanks Dad!). Matt has been a member of Howley Hall GC in Leeds since 2020, and is just about managing to maintain a single-figure handicap. He likes to remind people that he once broke 75, but won’t tell people that it was on a shortened course during the winter.
He moved to Leeds after graduating from the University of Central Lancashire with a First Class Honours degree in Sports Journalism. Matt joined NCG after almost five years travelling the world with the Professional Squash Association, working on events in all four corners of the globe.
Matt currently plays a Cobra King LTDx driver and RadSpeed 3-wood. TaylorMade monopolise the rest of his bag, with a SIM UDI, M5 irons and both Milled Grind and HI-TOE wedges, along with a Monza Redline putter. He uses a Vice Pro Plus golf ball, because he’s a bit different…
Away from golf, Matt is a Manchester United fan, and a keen runner, having ran the Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon (his first and possibly last), in May 2023.
