PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – Through five holes on Saturday at The Players Championship it was impossible to ignore the déjà vu moment.
Justin Thomas birdied the first, the second, the third and the fourth holes to start his round and was eying his fifth consecutive birdie from the middle of the fifth fairway. It was identical to how he began his third round at the PGA Tour’s flagship event in 2015.
“I think you get through 4, and 5 is clearly a lot harder than No. 4 is or a couple of those holes, and hit a beautiful drive there and I just was staring it right down the smokestack with an 8-iron,” he said.