{"id":22659,"date":"2025-06-28T20:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T20:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/22659\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T20:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T20:06:13","slug":"justin-thomas-admits-he-does-something-weird-and-strange-on-the-golf-course-that-really-helps-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/22659\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Thomas admits he does something ‘weird’ and \u2018strange\u2019 on the golf course that really helps him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Justin Thomas is one of the best on the PGA Tour when it comes to shots from 120 yards and in.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thomas<\/a> is ranked fifth in approaches from 125-150 yards this season and seventh in the 100-125 category.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old spends more time working on shots from those distances than he does any other part of his game.<\/p>\n

Thomas recently admitted that he is obsessed with improving his golf<\/a>, sometimes to the detriment of his social life.<\/p>\n

However, that\u2019s probably why he has become such a good player over the years. <\/p>\n

The Ryder Cup hopeful returned to the winners\u2019 circle this season, with a victory at the RBC Heritage in April.<\/p>\n

That said, Thomas\u2019s performances in the majors continue to be a concern<\/a>. That\u2019s nothing that a lot of hard work won\u2019t fix, though.<\/p>\n

Justin Thomas admits he does something \u2018weird\u2019 and \u2018strange\u2019 <\/p>\n

Thomas has been in poor form recently, but it\u2019s still a joy to watch him hit his wedges.<\/p>\n

There is nobody better in the game at controlling their distances than the man from Kentucky.<\/p>\n

When talking about exactly that, Thomas opened up on the system that he uses.<\/p>\n

\"JustinPhoto by Dylan Buell\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI spend a lot of time yeah, obviously it depends on different courses as to how often, but yeah, I hit a lot of shots in that range, so I do a lot of work on trackman to get my yardages as exact as I possibly can type thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t do a clock system, it\u2019s kind of strange, but I generally feel like I take it back as short as I can to hit it that specific distance. It\u2019s weird, but I feel like because of that, I\u2019m able to have the same acceleration all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thomas\u2019s method obviously relies a lot on feel and repetition, and he pulls off the shots he wants with his wedges more often than not.<\/p>\n

Why Collin Morikawa is ahead of Justin Thomas in Ryder Cup \u2018lock list\u2019<\/p>\n

Smylie Kaufman shares his belief that Collin Morikawa<\/a> is clear of Thomas right now, when it comes to the so-called \u2018locks\u2019 for the U.S. Ryder Cup team.<\/p>\n

And he explained the one reason why he thinks that is.<\/p>\n

Kaufman explained: \u201cYeah, it\u2019s Scottie, Bryson, Xander. I know Xander hasn\u2019t had the year that he\u2019s been looking for, but his length is such a dang asset at this place. Of course, he\u2019s a two-time major champion last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo Scottie, Bryson, and Xander, and then Collin Morikawa would be the fourth guy. I know we just talked about it for 20 minutes about how we\u2019re looking for continuity from the guy, but this is the\u2026 I mean, he\u2019s your ace in the hole when it comes to just precise iron game.<\/p>\n

Kaufman was then asked why he put Morikawa above Justin Thomas in his top four \u2018locks\u2019 for the Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, just because of JT\u2019s major record.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah. I think that\u2019s a huge knock against his profile. He\u2019s played really, really well over the last couple of years, but the majors have been a big time bug of his, which is the most comparable type of pressure that you can compare it to.\u201c<\/p>\n

He has a T-36 at the Masters and two missed cuts in the other two majors this season.<\/p>\n

The main point here is that Thomas will be on the Ryder Cup team in September, there is no doubt about that.<\/p>\n

However, he would love to start showing some real form over the next couple of months.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Thomas is one of the best on the PGA Tour when it comes to shots from 120…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,1504,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-22659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-justin-thomas","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114762795302402852","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}