HONOLULU — Inside the golf shop at Harmony Landing Country Club in Goshen, Ky., there are 129 golf balls on a rack. Each ball represents one of Justin Thomas’s wins, starting in elementary school. In a nearby box, there are balls from his holes-in-one.
Thomas’s father, Mike, the club’s head professional since 1990, will soon add two more balls to the collection, because his son won the Sony Open at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu on Sunday, his second victory in two weeks. In the opening round, Thomas became the seventh player in PGA Tour history — and, at 23, the youngest — to shoot a 59.