MEXICO CITY – Moments after narrowly missing a 14-footer for birdie that would have set a new course record at the WGC-Mexico Championship, Justin Thomas was asked if he knew who had originally set that record.
“Yeah, me,” he said with no small amount of frustration.
Although he came up short of that record - which he set during the third round last year - his record-matching 62 was good enough to vault him into the top 10 and give him some momentum going into next week’s Honda Classic, where he is the defending champion.
“To be honest, this might sound bad, but I just didn't really care.