PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – When Thomas Pieters decided to skip the 2017 Players Championship, he had no idea what he was missing. All he knew is that he needed to go home.
“It’s a lonely place sometimes for Europeans [on the PGA Tour]. Everybody has their cliques and everyone travels with their family, which I get because it can be quite lonely on the road. I was flying so much and I’d had enough of it and was like, nope, not doing it anymore,” Pieters said Wednesday at TPC Sawgrass.
“Thinking about it now it’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever done, maybe.