Winner's Bag: Justin Thomas – WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational

WINNING SCORE: 13 under, 267.

EQUIPMENT CHOICE:

DRIVER: Titleist TS3 with 9.5˚ loft, fitted with Mitsubishi Chemical Diamana ZF 60 TX shaft.

3-WOOD: Titleist TS3 with 15˚ loft, with Mitsubishi Chemical Tensei AV Raw Blue 85 TX shaft.

5-WOOD: Titleist 915 Fd with 18˚ loft, with Fujikura Motore Speeder VC 9.2 Tour Spec X.

IRONS: Titleist T100 (4-iron) and Titleist 620 MB (5-iron to 9-iron), with True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 shafts.

WEDGES: Titleist Vokey Design Raw SM7 (46˚-10˚ F Grind & 52˚-12˚ F Grind), Vokey Design SM8 (56˚-14˚ F Grind) and Titleist Vokey Design WedgeWorks (60˚T), with True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 (46) and True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 (52, 56 & 60) shafts.

PUTTER: Scotty Cameron X5.5 Tour Prototype.

BALL: Titleist Pro V1x..

FINAL LEADERBOARD

EQUIPMENT NOTES:

• Thomas’ victory and return to the top spot on the world rankings was driven by strong iron and wedge play throughout the week at TPC Southwind, the American ranking in the top-1 for Strokes Gained: Approach, Strokes Gained: Around the Green, Greens in Regulation and Scrambling. Thomas’ tools for his approach play have remained fairly similar throughout his PGA Tour, with his wedges perhaps the most unique. The 27-year-old’s 46˚, 52˚ and 60˚ wedges all carry lofts measured to .5˚ as a result of Thomas practicing and dialling in carry distances. Having returned to the Tour a number of years ago after a period of working on his game, Thomas’ wedge lofts were discovered to be different to what was stamped on the heads but kept due to the major champion favouring his new distances. Thomas’ 60˚ is the newest model of his wedges, the WedgeWorks prototype carrying a T Grind that was recently added to Titleist’s retail offerings.

   

   

   

   

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  An important lesson brought to you by @justinthomas34 on groove decay and groove management. Here is the gamer set of Justin Thomas and as you can see it’s a awesome collection of carefully selected wedges to have spin where you need it and where you don’t. The 46 is an very old yet new option. His last 47.5 he had in the bag for so long he is now bringing out his 2019 @themasters model because he finally had spin decay on the old 47.5. The 52.5 is still in good shape, still a vintage wedge. The 57 and 60.5 are kept fresh because spin is needed for control in these two wedges. Take a look at your own setup and see if you are approaching your wedges the same way. Spin is very important, the best in the world manage this well...shouldn’t you? @titleist @vokeywedges @titleistca @titleist_korea @titleistukireland @titleist_anz @titleistsea @titleist_japan #vokey #sm7 #sm8 #invokewetrust #pga #pgatour #golf #wedges #spin

  A post shared by Aaron Dill (@vokeywedgerep) on Jul 29, 2020 at 7:20am PDT

  Thomas had experienced caddie Jim ‘Bones’ Mackay on the bag this week after his father Mike filled in for Jimmie Johnson recently, the combination perhaps helping the younger Thomas play a different style of play. Thomas finding more fairways than his PGA Tour average for the season and claiming his 13^th PGA Tour win and fifth top-20 since the circuit’s resumption despite ranking outside the top-40 in driving distance for the week.
• The American’s 13^th PGA Tour win is also the 13^th for Titleist’s Pro V1 range of golf balls in 2020 and the fourth since the Tour’s restart in June.

QUOTE: “I've been fortunate to have a good career so far, but I plan on playing out here for a long time and have a lot of things that I still want to accomplish and every milestone and steppingstone is hopefully something that I can learn from and something that will help me even more in the long run. "– Justin Thomas.