Justin Thomas Takes Home the Win at BMW Championship

If you were able to tune in at any point this week, you were treated to an all-time tournament, which ended with Justin Thomas winning the BMW Championship.

There was plenty on the line this week at Medinah, as the winner was likely to vault into the top five of the FedEx Cup rankings. Justin Thomas ended up being the one to finish atop the leaderboard, bringing home a win at the BMW Championship, along with the number one ranking heading into the Tour Championship.

This means that when the tournament starts next week, Justin Thomas is going to start the week at -10, with a head start on the rest of the field in the race to the FedEx Cup Championship.

Before we can get to the Tour Championship, we need to take a look at how dominant Justin Thomas was this week.

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He started off great on Thursday tying the course record of 65. This put him in a tie for the lead with Jason Kokrak. Thomas was able to do it bogey-free, finishing with 11 pars and seven birdies.

Friday would be a ho-hum round compared to the rest of the week, as he “only” shot a -3 69. He would be two shots back of Hideki Matsuyama who was at -12 after his course record of 63. Maybe Thomas was upset at Matsuyama breaking the course record that Justin Thomas was tied with because Saturday was something special.

Thomas came out on fire, with five straight birdies to jump out into the lead. He was then able to rebound from his lone bogey of the day, which happened at the par-four 6th hole. He would get back to -5 on the day with a birdie on the 8th, finishing the front nine at 31.

The back nine ended up being even better. Thomas would eagle the 10th with a 3-foot putt and birdie the 14th. Then from 180 yards out on the par 4 16th, he would hole out for his second eagle of the back nine. After finishing it up with a birdie on 17, Thomas would turn in a 30 on the back, good for a new course record of 61.

This would put him up by 6 heading into the final round, which was a lead that he would not relinquish. One bogey and two birdies on the front, followed by one bogey and four birdies on the back meant Thomas would finish with a 68, winning by three strokes over Patrick Cantlay.

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Thomas could be getting hot at the perfect time and will tee off at the Tour Championship with a lead and in charge of his own destiny. Congratulations to him on the win, the 2,000 points, and the #1 seed in the FedEx Cup playoffs.

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