Justin Thomas can focus on legacy. Rory McIlroy must simply focus
But with three prior victories this year, and now a Major championship, Thomas’s victory was as much about finally delivering on the potential he demonstrated throughout his amateur career while ridding himself of the long, long, shadow cast over him by his great friend Jordan Spieth.
Earlier this year, I tipped Thomas as one of the potential winners at Augusta National. I did so because his stats and form at the time suggested that he had a complete game. Long off the tee box, he is one of the game’s better ball-strikers, with a short game and level of creativity to match. The X factor in his game is his fearlessness and uncanny ability to shoot some really low scores when he is hot.
