‘Put in My Place’: Justin Thomas’ Count on Tiger Woods counterproductive in great way

This week a great example of the Hold Tiger Woods still offered at the Golf game. This year, Woods missed the entire season, including the FedEx Cup Playoffs final of this week. Yet it was a story about the 15-times big champion who went viral on Wednesday at the Tour Championship 2025, shared by Justin Thomas.

Thomas, who is on East Lake in the field, regulated media members with a green-jAcket has broken down for the centuries that Tiger treated JT a few years ago.

The Tiger used a green jacket to humiliate Thomas

During his press conference before the tournament on Wednesday in East Lake, Thomas shared one of his favorite tour championships memories, dating from the 2020 event.

Woods was not in the field that year when he recovered from one of his litany of operations. But Tiger provided Thomas something to remember anyway.

It is important to note that Thomas has a unique close friendship with Woods that is different from most other professionals. The two major champions live near each other in Jupiter, FLA.

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Because of their friendship, Thomas is comfortable to do things that most professionals would not do – as Tiger Out of the Blue calls to try to grab him not to make the Tour Championship, as explained during his press conference.

‘I remember playing here [in 2020]Playing a practice round and walking 18 and facetiming Tiger and, because he was not here and was not eligible, just show him what the job was like and how great it was, “Thomas began.

Woods only played in seven official events in the 2019-2020 season, but recorded his 82nd tour title on the Zozo Championship in December 2019. What was more important, he had won his historic fifth Masters title in April 2019. In addition, the 2020 masters still had to be played, which were postponed until November, due to the pandemic.

So when Thomas decided to call him, Woods was still the reigning Masters champion. And it is that Tiger Thomas’ turned upside down.

In the middle of Thomas’ Facetime Call with Tiger, the connection seemed to cut away. Tiger called back shortly thereafter, but in the meantime he had performed a wardrobe change.

‘[Woods] Had to be carved as his phone and then he rang me back two minutes later with the green jacket. I remember that very, very, very lively. Just a typical conversation about thinking that I have a kind of upper edge, and I am closed and place quite quickly in my place, “said Thomas.

With Woods this week from the field while taking care of another injury, we will see if Justin Thomas learned his lesson in 2020, or whether he makes the same mistake again.

What Thomas thinks about a new tour championship format

Of course, Woods was not the primary topic topic during the press conference of Thomas’ Tour Championship. This week’s competition has taken most minutes.

Thomas, who enters the Tour Championship Ranked in 12th place in FedEx Cup classificationSound somewhat satisfied with his game this season and his performance judged as “a kind of B, I think. Maybe B minus.”

He added: “I know for sure a way that could trenze to the A -direction after this week. Hopefully we can change that letter figure.”

Thomas refers to winning the Tour Championship this week, which would give him his second career FedEx Cup title, not to mention a bootload of cash.

And Thomas just has a good chance if everyone this year because of a large change in classification. The Tour has abolished the starting tray format that it had used it in recent years. So instead of starting the tour championship, Thomas will start various shots behind Fedex Cup leader Scottie Scheffler, together with the rest of the field.

Thomas sees that as a positive change, both for his chances of victory and the potential for a further, more entertaining event.

“It has the opportunity to be an incredible week in the sense that you could have 15, 20 boys who have a chance to win on Sunday, which is pretty cool when it comes to the FedEx Cup. That’s great,” Thomas explained. “I think it was very, very dependent on where you were, and more often than not, except for a handful of boys, your week was quickly determined for your chances on the first – or not the first nine holes, but your first day.”

He continued: “If you start with, for example, two or three or less and you will not shoot four or five the first day, then you have virtually no chance to win. Position.”

If Thomas took home the Tour Championship and Fedex Cup titles this week, it would represent his second victory of the season, after his 16th career-touring expectation at the RBC heritage in April. He added three second place in 2025 to join his only victory.