It wasn’t quite a walk-off, because Justin Thomas won’t win the WM Phoenix Open, but the World No. 15 finished his final round at the WM Phoenix Open in style anyway.
After a 325-yard drive over the water, he had just 103 yards left, and apparently decided he didn’t feel like pulling the putter out one last time. Watch him bury the approach by utilizing the bank behind the hole and a bit of spin:
Walk-off eagle for @JustinThomas34!
JT hoops it from 102 yards 🦅 pic.twitter.com/UbINFpSryt
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) February 9, 2025
Tournament organizers are fortunate this didn’t happen on 16, because judging by what happened there yesterday, it might have taken them until the 2026 tournament to finish cleaning. As for JT’s celebration, Jim Nantz put it perfectly: “If there’s such a thing as a mic drop, this is a club drop.”
“It was a pretty good lob wedge number,” Thomas said. “I was actually over the ball with a sand wedge, and I backed off for some reason, felt like it as a better decision to hit a full lob wedge. And it was.”
“I felt bad for Denny [McCarthy] and Adam [Hadwin], they hit good wedges in there and they got booed because they hit after me,” Thomas added, “but I guess that’s par for the course here at the Waste Management.”
With that closing flourish, Thomas leaped up the leaderboard from 13th into a tie for fourth, joining Jordan Spieth, Robert MacIntyre and Christiaan Bezuidenhout at 15 under. It’s the first eagle at 18 in this tournament since 2017, and a heck of a memorable way to close out his fourth tournament of the year. If his position holds, it will be his second top-five finish of the season, following a solo second at the American Express.
This article was originally published on golfdigest.com
