MEXICO CITY – Justin Thomas’ game may as well have been conjured in a laboratory for Chapultepec Golf Club because Thomas checks all the boxes of what is needed to have success on the tree-lined, high-altitude layout.
Hits the ball a mile? Check.
Wedge game is all-world? Double check.
Aggressive? Triple check.
All of which explains why Thomas finished inside the top 10 in each of the first three years that this World Golf Championships event has been in Mexico City and now finds himself atop the leaderboard through three rounds.
“I feel like I've seen the greens pretty well when I've played here.