Justin Thomas

TULSA — One by one, Southern Hills muddled their putting strokes, compromised their swings and stole their souls. The final round of a major championship is ...

I didn’t need to leave the golf course in a negative frame of mind. I’ve had a lot of chances to win tournaments, and it’s a hard golf course; it’s a major championship. Walking off the final green on Sunday, Bones carried not only the flag but the stick too. Indeed, during crunch time on Sunday, Thomas looked like the only player who was having fun. At a PGA that seemingly no one wanted to win, it was left to be decided by the only two players who didn’t shrink from the magnitude of the opportunity. Meanwhile, the veteran caddie’s unflappable cool is a nice complement to Thomas’s hot-blooded, emotive play, and Mackay’s best read of the tournament came following the third round. In overtime against Zalatoris, Thomas played with the seething intensity of a man who knew his reputation was at stake. But on Saturday, Thomas labored to a 74, the kind of mystifying slippage that has compromised him in so many recent major championships. The final round of a major championship is supposed to be a war of attrition, but Sunday at this PGA Championship turned into full-blown carnage. And then there was poor Mito Pereira. The young Chilean limped to the 72nd tee leading by one despite four bogeys in the preceding 11 holes, and then grew T. Rex arms on the most important tee shot of his life, slashing his ball into a creek. Will Zalatoris, already emerging as a big-game hunter at age 25, made a couple of miraculous up-and-downs in the middle of his round to stay in the fight, and then, with the most scrutinized putting stroke in golf, rattled in a couple of must-makes on the final two holes: a 7-foot birdie putt and then an 8-foot par attempt. Having spent all week crowing about his new power, Matt Fitzpatrick timidly laid up on the short par-4 17th and then chunked a wedge, leading to a fatal bogey, his third of the back nine.

Justin Thomas asked Tiger Woods how he was feeling following his WD at the PGA Championship, but Woods had other things on his mind.

He made the cut, but he withdrew after his third-round 79 on Saturday. In his winner’s press conference on Sunday evening, Thomas said he talked to Woods a little on Saturday night. “He just said he was feeling terrible because my name kept dropping on the leaderboard,” said Thomas, before smirking. Woods took it and used it to jab Thomas. That’s kind of the relationship Woods and Thomas have. “So I guess it’s just a steppingstone.” New PGA champion Justin Thomas, along with his pal Tiger Woods, are now the answers to a trivia question.

Chile's Mito Pereira held a one-shot lead on the 72nd hole after seeing his birdie putt on the 17th stop agonisingly short of the hole, but pushed his drive ...

“I’m going to be happy wherever I finish,” Fleetwood said. I didn’t hit it in the fairway enough. I made too many mistakes on the simple things. Everything I was doing was right. The first three days I was immaculate. Thomas had holed from six feet on the par-five 13th to match the birdie Zalatoris had made after finding the green in two, but Zalatoris missed from eight feet for birdie on the 17th after Thomas had driven the green on the 302-yard par four to set up a two-putt birdie.