NAPA, Calif. -- Justin Thomas didn't get much rest during the four weeks between seasons. The 2017 FedEx Cup champion helped raise money for hurricane victims in the Bahamas, spent two weeks recovering from minor skin cancer surgery, then flew cross country to California to make his season debut in the Safeway Open.
With the obvious exception of the skin cancer, it was about as perfect a break as Thomas could have expected.
"It really was," Thomas said Wednesday. "I feel very refreshed. I was excited to come here, when in past years I probably wasn't excited to come to the first event because I was still kind of over golf.