Justin Thomas | |
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Personal information | |
Born |
Louisville, Kentucky |
April 29, 1993
Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
Weight | 145 lb (66 kg; 10.4 st) |
Nationality | United States |
Career | |
College | Alabama |
Turned professional | 2013 |
Current tour(s) | PGA Tour |
Former tour(s) | Web.com Tour |
Professional wins | 5 |
Number of wins by tour | |
PGA Tour | 4 |
Web.com Tour | 1 |
Best results in major championships |
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Masters Tournament | T22: 2017 |
U.S. Open | T32: 2016 |
The Open Championship | T53: 2016 |
PGA Championship | T18: 2015 |
Achievements and awards | |
Haskins Award | 2012 |
Justin Thomas (born April 29, 1993) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.
Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Thomas graduated from St. Xavier High School in 2011. Prior to his junior year in high school, he played in the Wyndham Championship on the PGA Tour in August 2009 and became the third youngest to make the cut in a PGA Tour event at 16 years, 3 months and 24 days. Thomas played college golf at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where he won six times for the Crimson Tide, and was on the national championship team of 2013. As a freshman in 2012, he won the Haskins Award as the most outstanding collegiate golfer.
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.