Justin Thomas ends long trip again with RBC Heritage Win

The past 1,064 days have been a long Odyssey and trying Justin Thomas.

When he left Green at the PGA 2022 championship holding the Wanamaker trophy, he was a great and winner of PGA Tour’s 15-time and winner at the age of 29. His star had continued to rise since the PGA Tour’s stage with his first victory in 2015.

But things began to tend down as Thomas came out of the greens to Southern Hills holding his second Wanamaker trophy.

Since that victory, Thomas has played in 59 PGA Tour events. He has recorded 16 Top-10 ends, 10 Top five and has been a race three times. He lost the FedEx Cup Play off in a tried 2023 season, left out of the 2024 President’s Cup team and was shared with Caddy “Bones” Mackay in front of 2024 masters.

Thomas tried to stay patient while his ribbon without a victory threatened to reach the three -year sign. it had the Valsspar championship in his control Last month, but a few squirrels down the stretch and a furious conclusion from Victor Hovland saw him fall short.

Thomas’s latest victory may also have come to another life. He is now a man and dad.

Life changes. Failures. Climbing back. All prepared Thomas for Sunday when he beat Andrew Novak in the first hole of Play off -it To win 2025 RBC HERITAGE In Harbour Town Golf Links and end a hard trip back to the top.

“Profit is difficult,” Thomas CBS ‘told Amanda Balionis after victory. “Really really, really hard. I have worked my butt and stayed patient, I stayed positive. I got a great woman, a great team, a great girl. Just take it as well when you get in those runs and I didn’t understand how much I miss winning.”

He arrived at RBC Heritage this week believing it was near. The repayment was coming. But finishing a drought of 1,064 days would not be easy. Why would it be? The trip has not been.

Thomas opened with a course enrolled in 61 and supported it with a 69 to master the lead entering the weekend for the first time since the opening of farmers’ 2022 farmers.

But Thomas’s third round began with a penalty with a stroke in the second hole. Thomas called the penalty over himself after his ball moved slightly as he was moving loose obstacles from his ball to a waste area. Thomas said he hoped that a shot would not be the difference between the drought or not. If he were to play his game and stuck in his plan, it would not happen.

But Thomas lost the superiority in like Woo Kim on Saturday and entered the last round a back hook.

While he had all the week, Thomas played smart golf, disciplined in the fast connections of Harbor Town golf firms. He made birds in five and eight to grab some of the lead and turn two under. While the other contenders began to be included in nine backs, Thomas remained with only one more obstacle: South Carolina locals Andrew Novak, who had the crowd behind him while shooting for his first career victory.

Novak hit the shots at 12 and 13, but the two hit the trees and went on the road. The 30-year-old rolled in a main premature saving shock at Par-5 15 to stay inside one of Thomas and then poured into a 16-meter bird to 16 to connect with two holes to play.

Thomas couldn’t shake it.

After Pars on 17 and 18, Thomas left the green with the tournament in the hands of Novak.

Novak gripped his approach to 18 to eight feet. While Novak followed his Putt, Thomas eagerly observed in the note tent, waiting to see if his drought would continue for a few more weeks or if he would get one more crack to end.

Novak’s Putt left Putter’s face and never had a chance, leaving him for a moment and a ticket to a play off.

Both players hit the free road from Tee, and Thomas hit his approach to 21 meters. Novak’s strike was clean, but he did not get the transfer he predicted. His ball just took the danger, leaving 33 meters per bird.

Walking to the green, Thomas looked at his stuffed cadet, Joe Greiner and admitted that he had never made a long blow to win a tour.

When he lost his Novak Putt, Thomas had his own scene. He had 21 meters to close the harshest chapter of his golf life. Twenty -one foot to pass questions and doubts. Twenty one foot to become justin thomas again.

Thomas stood on his ball and gave him a safe strike toward the hole. The ball rolled clean and took a right turn over half the road there, then sailed straight to the center of the cup.

Just as the ball reached the edge of the cup, Thomas threw his bed and the past 1,064 days were left in Hilton’s head, South Carolina, Sunset.

All that remained was Justin Thomas, now a 16-time PGA Tour winner, finally all the time.