Justin Thomas will tee it up at the Charles Schwab Challenge this week for the first time since 2020.
Thomas has won only once on the PGA Tour since his PGA Championship triumph in 2022, with his last victory coming in April 2025.
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And the 32-year-old will be desperate to get back inside the winners’ circle as soon as possible, having returned to action in March after undergoing back surgery at the end of last year.
Justin Thomas has been one of the most prolific winners on the PGA Tour over the past decade, with 16 victories to his name, including two major championships.
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He has struggled in the main since returning from back surgery, but Thomas returned to form at the PGA Championship two weeks ago, firing a final round 65 to secure a top-five finish.
The next step for him now will quite obviously be to win again.
Justin Thomas on why many big-name players skip the Charles Schwab Challenge
Thomas is one of the biggest names in the field at the Charles Schwab Challenge this week.
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Ludvig Aberg, Hideki Matsuyama, Robert MacIntyre and Rickie Fowler will be teeing it up at Colonial Country Club as well.
However, the real star names on the PGA Tour like Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy, Cam Young and many more have decided to skip the event at Colonial.
And Thomas thinks he knows why.
“I’m excited to be here. I really like this golf course,“ he said.
“It definitely is one of those events I think a lot of people would play if it fit the schedule more. Given the beginning of my year what it looked like and starting when I did, with the potential of adding other events and this one was definitely one that I had circled that I really wanted to add and play and it worked out nicely.
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“So I haven’t seen it since the changes, so obviously it’s a lot softer and a little bit more wet than the last couple years, but yeah, happy to be here and it’s a fun course and seems like it’s always had a great tournament.“
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Justin Thomas offers update on how he feels post-surgery
When speaking to the media at Colonial on Wednesday, Thomas responded when asked how he is feeling now having gone through back surgery just six months ago.
“I mean, I’m definitely, you know, I’m very reassured and I feel extremely confident that I made the right decision, which is most important,“ he said.
“But I will, I felt like I made that beforehand and I kind of, that was something I told myself is like I can’t go into this if I’m not a hundred percent.
“If I’m, like, should I, should I not. Should I try this, should I try that. Because I could sit here right now and I could find probably hundreds of people that know more than me about it that will tell me what I did was stupid and why I shouldn’t have done it.
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“But at the end of the day I could do that regardless of what I did, right? So for me the biggest thing was talking to my team, but in myself, I just had to know, I had confidence and belief and faith in what I was doing was the best thing for me and my career.
“And that’s, you know, after all the information, everything that I had kind of gathered and talking, reading, whatever you want to call it, I felt like that was what it was.
“So it wasn’t necessarily a moment after the fact, because I felt like I had already kind of committed to that. But it’s also not something of like once you’ve hit that first driver and it feels good you’re like, Okay, I’m good the rest of my life, I don’t have to worry about this ever again. It’s like everything, it’s a process and you got to keep working on it.“
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