Justin Thomas

The PGA Champion hit a hosel rocket on the 6th hole during the final round at Southern Hills.

The shank on six was one of the first things referenced by the 29-year-old following his victory, and luckily he was able to make a joke of it. He described it as the "best bogey I've ever made in my life" and went on to play the final 10 holes in four-under-par. It could have put an end to his hopes of winning the tournament but a 19ft putt saved a crucial bogey to keep his round alive.

For nearly four full days, the PGA Championship had been a snooze, the cast of characters atop the leaderboard a list mostly made up of also-rans searching ...

Thomas had rattled off a couple of birdies on the back side before an up-and-down for birdie at the 17th, moving him to 5 under and within a shot of the lead. He made a two-putt birdie while Zalatoris could only manage par, sending the 2017 PGA champ to the 18th again — this time with a one-shot lead of his own. Coming up behind him, Zalatoris had finally wrangled his renegade irons in time to make birdie at the 17th, getting him back to 5 under. Chile's Mito Pereira had a career-changing moment staring him in the face until a fateful shot on the 18th hole. Cameron Young tried to move up the leaderboard during the final round, then left his chances of victory in a fairway bunker on the 16th hole. The golf itself was unspectacular, too, as everyone from Abraham Ancer to Tiger Woods ground their way around a Perry Maxwell classic that was both forbidding and unforgiving.

In the last 25 years only five golfers have overcome such a pre-final round position.

He signed for a 68 on a tinder dry Muirfield layout and then watched as those ahead of him on Saturday night saw their hopes go up in smoke. It also set a bar too high for those who had ended Saturday ahead of him on the leaderboard. Freddie Jacobsen had been third and had a 75. Suddenly there is context and perspective: we can appreciate just what the golfer has overcome to lift the trophy. From tied second, Justin Leonard matched his 72-hole total with a 72 and Craig Parry was left one adrift after a 73. David Frost, Tiger Woods and Andrew Coltart has been tied fourth - they carded 74, 74 and 77.

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TULSA, Okla. – Justin Thomas calculated the yardage for his approach shot on Southern Hills' par-4 seventh in Sunday's final round of the PGA Championship ...

A two-putt birdie was enough for Thomas to lead when Zalatoris failed to get up-and-down before the pair traded pars on the final hole. The three-hole aggregate playoff between Thomas and Zalatoris began with both making birdie on the opening par-5 before they returned to the drivable 17th. Needing par to win his first TOUR event, he sadly sliced his tee shot into the water, failed to reach the green after a penalty and couldn’t even muster bogey to join the playoff. But he refused to give in and birdied the drivable par-4 17th by getting close from a greenside bunker before setting up a 10-foot birdie try on the last after two great shots. Zalatoris was as deep as 8 under early in the round but bogeys on Nos. 6, 7, 12 and 16 seemed to have cruelled his hopes. “We were remarking at the time it was his best full swing of the week and he hit it to 10 feet from 197 yards.” “Anything can happen in golf and Justin is a resilient guy and when he needs to play offense. Thomas recovered from the embarrassment to string together five birdies in his closing 10 holes to shoot 3-under 67, good enough to get in a playoff with Will Zalatoris that Thomas won with birdies on the first two holes. “Bones said some things that I wanted to say but I know as a father if I had of said them, he’d have been like, “You’re stroking my ego,” but Bones said them and it hit home for him,” said Mike Thomas. “It was a really good message. Suddenly the eight-shot gap was halved to four. The talk was music to Mike Thomas’ ears. In the end, it was just one of countless amazing moments in a crazy final round.

Justin Thomas' win at the 2022 PGA Championship taught us something special about him — and gave us something to learn.

Capable of feats like we saw on Sunday at the PGA Championship: overcoming the difficult side of the draw early in the week and finishing with six birdies in his final 13 holes to overcome a seven-stroke deficit. “He listened to what I had to say, and he worked really hard. “I get pissed at him sometimes, and I think as a dad he doesn’t want to — he’s not going to go full Butch Harmon or Pete Cowan and tell me I suck or ‘that’s not very good’ or whatever it is, and sometimes I would love for him to say that just because I want to hear it,” Thomas said earlier in the week. JT seems to possess the rare quality of seeking out criticism he may not particularly enjoy hearing. And even in victory, JT seems to already know what’s to come. It was Friday of the 2020 Travelers Championship. Justin Thomas was on his way home after missing the cut in his second start of the restarted PGA Tour season. The reason you don’t putt well enough is because your skills aren’t good enough.’ I wanted to lay it all on the table.” “I helped educate him on what the best putters do, from green reading to distance control to start line, and here’s where you are,” he said. He had slipped on Saturday, but on Sunday, he was back to stalking his prey. He had navigated the windy side of the draw his first two rounds. Heat, cold, allergies (“I got my but kicked by allergies,” he said), and prevailed from it all. “I would like to think and hope that everything has just gotten a little better.

Watch Justin Thomas sink the final putt to clinch his historic comeback in the 2022 PGA Championship and celebrate with his family.

After a solid drive and approach, Thomas was safely on the 18th green in 2, with a Zalatoris birdie highly unlikely. He was the PGA champion once again. It took a huge effort from JT to get to that point.

Phil Mickelson's former bagman gave Thomas a crucial pep talk after he shot 74 on Saturday.

Asked if it was difficult to watch Woods card his highest ever score in the US PGA, Thomas added: “I wouldn’t say how tough it was to see him struggle. “I asked how he was feeling, and he just said he was feeling terrible because my name kept dropping on the leaderboard,” Thomas joked. It’s mind-blowing the things that he can do with his mind. I didn’t need to leave the golf course in a negative frame of mind. And he (Mackay) was just like, ‘dude, you’ve got to be stop being so hard on yourself. “I played pretty well for shooting four over and I felt like I’d played terrible.