Justin Thomas has the game to win this tournament, and he came excruciatingly close in 2020 with a fourth-place finish.
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In six career Masters, he’s finished inside the top 40 every time and inside the top 22 in each of the last five years.
Major champion Justin Thomas is making his seventh Masters appearance and has never missed the cut at Augusta National.
In last year’s Tournament, he fired a second-round 67 to pull within three strokes of the lead through 36 holes before finishing T21.
His season highlights from 2021 included a victory at the Players Championship and a T2 finish at the PGA Tour event at Sherwood Country Club.
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Thomas, 28, earned an automatic spot on captain Steve Stricker’s Ryder Cup team and won two matches in the United States’ victory over Europe.
A Kentucky native who was an All-American at the University of Alabama, Thomas is the son and grandson of PGA of America teaching professionals. Thomas honored both of them in winning the 2017 PGA Championship.
Thomas turned professional in 2013 and earned his tour card on the Web.com Tour through qualifying school.
He won his first professional event at the 2014 Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship. Thomas finished fifth in the 2014 Web.com Tour regular season, and third after the Web.com Tour Finals, and earned his PGA Tour card for the 2015 season.
In 2015, Thomas collected seven top-10s and 15 top-25s, with fourth-place finishes at the Quicken Loans National and Sanderson Farms Championship as his best results.
He finished 32nd at the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup, losing the Rookie of the Year award to Daniel Berger.
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