{"id":433890,"date":"2025-03-26T09:14:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T13:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/?p=433890"},"modified":"2025-04-23T16:39:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T16:39:57","slug":"justin-thomas-burnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/justin-thomas-burnout\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Thomas Facing Burnout: “I’m pretty tired”"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the Valspar Championship, Justin Thomas was on the cusp of victory.\u00a0 With just a three-shot lead, he was in line for the win.\u00a0 In the end, he started slipping on the last four holes and continuing his two-year-long winless streak.\u00a0 In the end, Victor Hovland swooped in and became the victor.\u00a0 After this had happened, Thomas reportedly felt tired, and some are speculating that this loss streak is giving him burnout.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Is Justin Thomas Going Through Burnout?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Speculation about burnout is not unfounded; anyone with a loss streak of one year will question if they\u2019re good enough anymore.\u00a0 Two years just compounds the feeling far enough to the crystalized.\u00a0 After the loss, a TGL presser asked Thomas if he had any fatigue<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thomas replied, \u201cI\u2019m pretty tired, yeah.\u00a0 I think we wouldn\u2019t be\u2026we would be tired if it had nothing to do with golf, just the fact of a 9:00 p.m. start is very, well, not very: it\u2019s just not what we do. So it\u2019s very difficult to figure out routine-wise.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thomas would remark on the events’ conclusions, saying: \u201cI kind of felt like a loser at school tonight, like we had everybody against us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Thomas would go on by detailing an average pro-golfer’s routine.\u00a0 Being full of practice warm-ups and just psyching themselves up for the next tournament.\u00a0 \u201cAnd now it\u2019s weird having an entire day and then kind of getting into that.\u201d\u00a0 With the season near its end, the pressure is on for all players to clutch as many wins as they can.\u00a0 Everyone is getting a bit more intense with how they play, everyone is focused and locked in.\u00a0 At the same time, at this moment, anyone can make a simple but costly mistake in the heat of the moment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Victor Hovland’s Lose Streak<\/span><\/h2>\n

Something else to not is that Hovland also had his own long losing streak of 19 months.\u00a0 The last few holes were between two players determined to break their streaks and bring a trophy home.\u00a0 Hovland has been straightforward with his performance, yet he still managed to clutch it.\u00a0 He is, of course, a pro player whose performance has been improving even as his shortcomings have mounted.\u00a0 Thomas is much the same, he has been making a comeback<\/a> in the face of defeat.\u00a0 Who\u2019s to say that he can\u2019t bring home a first-place award before the end of the season?<\/span><\/p>\n

Justin Thomas Looking On The Bright Side<\/span><\/h2>\n

People have been suspecting that Thomas might be having some burnout, but he remains pretty optimistic.\u00a0 Thomas went in to keep his cut streak going<\/a>, and he succeeded.\u00a0 He has his head held high and is looking forward.\u00a0 Thomas would go on to say how much fun he still has in these tournaments.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a blast.\u00a0 I\u2019ve had plenty of chances this year, but nothing quite like that,\u201d\u00a0 Thomas shared.\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s exactly why we play and practice.\u00a0 I felt great out there, comfortable and excited for every shot.\u00a0 There\u2019s not much I can do when he birdies 16 and 17, and I made it easier on him, but it was fun, really fun, but winning is hard.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the Valspar Championship, Justin Thomas was on the cusp of victory.\u00a0 With just a three-shot lead, he was in line for the win.\u00a0 In the end, he started slipping on the last four holes and continuing his two-year-long winless streak.\u00a0 In the end, Victor Hovland swooped in and became the victor.\u00a0 After this had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4860,"featured_media":433891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,246,19],"tags":[50,307,322],"class_list":["post-433890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf","category-golf-news","category-pga","tag-justin-thomas","tag-valspar-championship","tag-victor-hovland"],"modified_by":"yobodev","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}