Justin Thomas won the 2022 PGA Championship on Sunday, the second major of his career, after a dramatic playoff. PGA Championship was an especially good event for those who placed some money on Justin’s odds for winning.
Thomas won with a score of two-under after the three playoff holes with fellow American Will Zalatoris at Southern Hills Country Club at Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The 29-year-old finished his round a shot behind then-leader Mito Pereira, but after the Chilean hit his drive on the 18th hole into the water and finished with a double bogey, the major went to a playoff between the two compatriots.
And after three holes, Thomas ended with his second major victory as he lifted the famous Wanamaker Trophy for the second time having previously won it in 2017.
With the Thomas’ excellent play and the dramatic ending as Pereira blew his advantage resulting in a playoff, Thomas summed it up as a “bizarre day.”
“I have definitely crossed one off the list I have never won a tournament shanking a ball on Sunday so that was the first and I would really like it to be the last,” he explained
“Bones (Thomas’ caddie, Jim ‘Bones’ Mackay) did an unbelievable job of just keeping me in the moment and I just tried to play the golf course for what it is.
“This place is so tough. It was funny I was asked earlier in the week about what lead is safe and I said ‘no lead’ because this place is so tough. But if you hit the fairways you can make birdies and I stayed so patient. I could not believe that I found myself in a playoff.”