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WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational: Justin Thomas on top of the world

2020-08-03T06:10:23.899Z


Double blow for Justin Thomas in Memphis (Tennessee). The only 27-year-old American wins his second World Championship (after WGC-Bridgestone 2018) and becomes world No. 1 again two years later ...


The American Justin Thomas achieved a sublime brace this Sunday in Memphis (Tennessee), winning the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational at -13 (267) at the expense of defending champion Brooks Koepka, tied for second at -10 ( 270) with Daniel Berger, Phil Mickelson and Englishman Tom Lewis. He also took the opportunity to become again for the first time since June 2018 world number 1. The Kentucky golfer has indeed already occupied this chair for four weeks between May 13 and June 9, 2018. Here he dislodges the Spaniard Jon Rahm, who will only remain at the top of this ranking for two weeks after his success at the Memorial Tournament (PGA Tour).

"If I become world number one again, I hope it will be for a longer period," he joked before the tournament, believing to be today "a better player, more complete than at the time". It's the case. At 27, he becomes the third youngest player in the last 60 years to have 13 victories on the PGA Tour, behind two legends: Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus.

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Fifth after 54 holes, four strokes behind Brendon Todd, the leader at the end of the Moving Day, Thomas was able to reverse the trend this Sunday, making a card of 65 (-5) to win his second World Championship after the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational 2018 played in Akron, Ohio at the famous Firestone Country Club. Here he succeeds Brooks Koepka, who, after slamming a sublime birdie in the 17th to get back to a length from Thomas, self-destructed on the 18th by sending his ball into the water on the faceoff before to end his Sunday with a double bogey.

"This victory means a lot, especially the way I won it," continues Thomas, caddeyé for the occasion by Jim "Bones" Mackay, the legendary former caddy of Phil Mickelson. In the past, I had trouble coming from behind. At one point, I wondered how far behind I was and how many players were ahead of me. "

. @ JustinThomas34is full speed ahead right now.

Back-to-back birdies give him the solo lead. pic.twitter.com/sfCO1lHkeH

- WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational (@WGCFedEx) August 2, 2020

Concentrated on his course, he did not attend the spectacular tumble of Brendon Todd, author of a 75 (+5) card to finish in fifteenth place (-7) after having been in charge for two consecutive days. So much so that for a long time Thomas' most dangerous rival was Koepka, who thought he could keep his title on Sunday, when he took the lead briefly on the 13th hole. Justin Thomas, however, regained the advantage on the 16th hole, thanks to a birdie, not to let go, probably heaving a sigh of relief when he saw - as we said a little earlier - his competitor crack in the 18th, sending the ball in the water, synonymous with double bogey, then in the bunker on the next stroke.

A fishtail end certainly frustrating for those who will try to win, as of next Thursday in San Francisco, a third consecutive victory at the PGA Championship, the first Grand Slam of the season, the schedule of which has been upset by the coronavirus pandemic. Thomas, winner of this Major in 2017, so far the only one of his career, has put himself in the best conditions to also win on TPC Harding Park, and thus fully assume his new status of world number one . The only Frenchman engaged in Memphis, Victor Perez, meanwhile, signed a second consecutive card of 70 (par) but finished very far on the leaderboard, in 65th place at +4 (284). He will have the opportunity to redeem himself on Thursday in California after three failed cuts in a row on the PGA Tour (in three starts). The Tarbais will be one of the three tricolors entered in this Major in the company of Mike Lorenzo-Vera and Benjamin Hébert.  

Source: lefigaro

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