Taking Stock of Justin Thomas’s Career and Future

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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Golf, Sports

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🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Andy Johnson is joined by Joseph LaMagna for an episode focusing on 15-time PGA Tour winner Justin Thomas. The two begin the show with and they are In and Out on during the early stages of the FedEx Fall, as the PGA Tour's fall events have become more competitive this year while the TV coverage continues to lag behind. Andy and Joseph discuss the uptick in televised college golf and consider the broadcasting future of the sport. From there, the two take a dive into the career of Justin Thomas heading into 2025. They recap the quick start to Thomas' PGA Tour career, his performance in 2017 and 2018, and the advantages his ball speed and iron play initially provided him on Tour. Andy and Joseph analyze his recent putting woes and lack of driving ability, questioning if Thomas can ever be a top-five player in the world again. To wrap up the episode, Andy and Joseph share some Recommendations on how to use screen time for both kids and adults.

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0:00.0	I'm already upset when I find my ball in the bunker I'm really upset and when I find my ball in a fried egg
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0:11.8	I'm about ready to run off the golf course So, Welcome back to another edition of the Friday Golf Podcast. I am your host Andy Johnson. Today I'm joined by Joseph Lamagna.
0:45.8	Joseph, what are you in on?
0:48.9	Andy, we've talked about this a little bit already. I'm in on the idea of a cutthroat competitive
0:55.2	fall. I don't know how you feel. I've been enjoying the fall. A lot of these tournaments
1:00.9	about as much as signature events or year and I think the opportunity to get some of these KFT guys in as you and I have talked about maybe even creating a path for live golfers if they wanted to participate.
1:15.0	You end up with this hodge podge of golfers playing with a lot on the line.
1:19.0	Like J.T. Poston is in the lead right now as we record,
1:22.8	means something different to him than Michael Kim,
1:25.4	who's trying to retain his status.
1:27.4	And like Daniel Berger and Gary Woodland
1:30.0	coming back from injuries, proven talents on the P PGA tour trying to regain their status.
1:35.3	There's a real opportunity here for this to be a compelling product.
1:38.3	I've been enjoying it.
1:39.3	Yeah, I would echo that.
1:42.0	I've really enjoyed the fall.
1:43.7	I really enjoyed last week with Matt McCarty winning.
1:48.2	And it made me, you know, one of the big tweaks
1:51.5	I would want to see is I'd want to see all the Corn Ferry Tour players in it.
1:56.1	And obviously they have they come in to the tour with priority rankings from the tour before,
2:03.7	but it would be neat to see them kind of slot
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