How unhealthy was Justin Thomas’ efficiency on the greens on Saturday on the Valspar Championship?
The worst of his PGA Tour profession.
From a strokes-gained perspective, Thomas hadn’t come near the 7.024 strokes he misplaced with the putter in his third journey round Innisbrook’s Copperhead Course this week. Thomas totaled simply 22 ft, 10 inches on a whopping 38 putts as properly.
Almost 3 ft of that whole (2 ft, 9 inches) was accrued on the par-5 first gap, as Thomas rolled in a gap birdie after starting the day tied for sixth. Nevertheless, Thomas wouldn’t gap a putt longer than that the remainder of his spherical.
He carded seven bogeys and a double – and no extra birdies – en path to an 8-over 79, which dropped Thomas to T-66 heading into Sunday. It’s Thomas’ worst spherical since his opening 82 at The Open final summer season.
Golf information analyst Rick Gehman estimated Thomas’ strokes-gained: placing quantity to be the thirty fifth worst by any golfer on Tour since 2008 (239,727 measured rounds).
At 3 over, Thomas is now 13 pictures again of 54-hole Valspar chief Keith Mitchell. He was only a shot off the lead via 36 holes whereas gaining simply over two pictures on the greens.
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