Justin Thomas is hoping to round off a Major-winning season with victory in the FedEx Cup, and his bid to do that gets under way with the first of the Playoffs in this week’s FedEx St. Jude Championship.
However, while attention turns to that, the build-up has been overshadowed by a lawsuit brought against the PGA Tour by LIV Golf players challenging their suspensions. Thomas, though, had some strong words for the players who have chosen to do so.
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Speaking ahead of this week’s tournament, the current PGA Champion said: “Those guys were given an opportunity to go play and just go play. You can have your cake, but you don’t need to eat it, too. And they got their fair share of a large, large amount of cake and go eat it on your own means. You don’t need to bring it onto our tour. I think we keep it how it is and we can continue to build an unbelievable product that’s given a lot of us like myself a great platform to just keep improving it.”
Hearings for the antitrust case brought by the players will start at the end of September prior to a summary judgement in March 2023, with a full trial expected to begin in a year. With the issue set to rumble on for the foreseeable future, Thomas sees the LIV Golf saga as a distraction. He said: “It’s unfortunately just taking up the golf world a little bit and taking away from great storylines. I think I saw Scottie [Scheffler] came in and did his interview yesterday and I’m sure he got asked about what was going on, and he’s had one of the best seasons of all time. I’m sure there weren’t as many questions about that as there should have been.”
One issue that has been dealt with is the temporary restraining order that was part of the lawsuit filed by three of the players – Talor Gooch, Hudson Swafford and Matt Jones. A hearing on Tuesday ruled against the trio teeing it up in the FedEx Cup Playoffs. However, that wasn’t something Thomas was too concerned about.
He said: “I was checking updates here and there, but it was just something to where again, I had zero impact, I couldn’t…
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