NASSAU, Bahamas -- Justin Thomas smirked, mildly amused at all the questions coming his way about Tiger Woods. Without context, of course, that would seem odd to the reigning PGA Tour Player of the Year, PGA Championship winner and third-ranked player in the world.
Thomas is in the Bahamas in part as a reward for so many of those accomplishments, a season-ending boondoggle at the Hero World Challenge where he'll get paid handsomely to chip away some rust with 2018 looming.
Any other week, Thomas would be inundated with questions about himself, but with Woods returning to competitive golf for the first time in 10 months, the storyline has been all about the 1,199th-ranked player who is playing just his 20th worldwide tournament since the first of four back surgeries occurred in 2014.