Justin Thomas Cites Lack Of Fans For Poor Performance - Dog Leg News

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    baxter cepeda

    I doNt know about Dog House for this.

    You know how I feel about JT—but this is a lamer excuse than tiger and Rorys for not showing up all of this season; supposedly because of this lack of fans.

    The lack of fans has not Stopped JT from posting super low score after super low score.

    This is a crunch time issue only.
    In tigers hay day, especially at crunch time, sure he fed off the people; but it seemed tiger was also able to block out all the people around; able to take his time as if he was the only person on the course, by the time he hit that critical putt, it was going in regardless of what was or was not happening around him; he was unaware of surrounding chaos because they are irrelevant to the task at hand; so he focused better than anyone ever has (except maybe Jack and Bobby, and Young Morris) at the things he could control; and it worked pretty well.

    Old tiger has these moments in spurts now. Rory has shown this special focus at times. JT has too. But JT