Justin Thomas's late-night stint in the Golf Channel booth at Zozo Championship includes analyzing Rickie Fowler's flow and more: 'I'm not a real big Mullet Rick fan'

Some time – people my words – Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas are going to beryllium successful nan booth together doing commentary. It whitethorn beryllium connected immoderate still-to-be created app aliases nan adjacent Netflix but springiness it 30 years and erstwhile those guys are yet done collecting baubles connected nan elder circuit (if location still is simply a elder circuit), they’re going to return TV commentary adjacent level.

Thomas showed his talking caput skills precocious Wednesday nighttime – aliases was it early Thursday morning? The Golf Channel televised nan Zozo Championship from 11 p.m.-3 a.m. ET and for those who stayed up for first information coverage, they were treated to Thomas joining nan booth pinch nan underrated jack-of-all-trades George Savaricas and erstwhile Tour pro Graham DeLaet, who has been cutting his teeth arsenic an expert for PGA Tour Live and is nan go-to-guy for Canada’s TSN.

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After shooting 4-under 66 astatine Narashino Golf Club, Thomas touched connected a wealthiness of subjects. While showing nan highlights of his round, Savaricus asked Thomas astir his switch backmost to a mallet putter this week.

“It’s great, it’s Old Faithful. I’ve had a batch of occurrence and won a batch of tournaments pinch this putter,” Thomas said. “It’s a familiar, acquainted feeling.”

We learned that No. 11 is simply a spread he’ll return par and tally and immoderate different people strategy worldly that will beryllium useful to cognize while enjoying nan adjacent 3 rounds. Then Thomas was asked astir his struggles past twelvemonth and really he’s bounced backmost and he gave immoderate awesome penetration into nan intelligence crippled of a awesome champion and erstwhile world No. 1.

“This crippled is truthful difficult and tin really return truthful overmuch retired of you and hit you up immoderate but you’re besides ne'er arsenic acold it seems,” he said. “Is it nan chickenhearted aliases nan egg? Was I hitting it bad and not playing good because my intelligence crippled wasn’t bully aliases was it vice-versa?”

He continued: “I ever show group that I’m sorry, but play is my occupation and if I’m not playing bully play it’s beautiful difficult for maine to beryllium happy. I understand everyone has different outlooks, but it’s for illustration you request to beryllium retired location and bask it, but it’s like, buddy, would you beryllium happy if you were sucking astatine your job? So, no, I’m not going to beryllium happy.”

Justin Thomas will soon beryllium a dad

Before things sewage excessively heavy for late-night TV and went disconnected nan rails, Savaricas lightened nan temper by bringing up nan truth that Thomas was astir to beryllium past personnel of nan Spring Break nine – pursuing successful nan footsteps of Spieth, Smylie Kaufman and Rickie Fowler – to go a dad. Thomas and his wife, Jillian, are expecting their first child, a daughter, successful November.

“On nan formation home, erstwhile this tourney is over, it’s going to go beautiful existent for me,” admitted Thomas, who apt is making his past commencement for nan foreseeable future.

When Savaricus asked which of nan guys he’d beryllium astir apt to inquire for immoderate proposal connected doing diapers, Thomas cracked, “Next question.”

“I’d inquire each of their wives,” he added.

“Well played,” Savaricus said.

So astir Rickie Fowler’s hair

The camera trim to Fowler weighing his adjacent changeable and Savaricus did a splendid occupation of mounting Thomas up for his champion study of all.

“How astir Rickie’s travel now? He’s really letting it spell successful back,” Savaricus noted.

Hey, astatine 2 a.m., this is nan worldly nan spectator has been waiting for, americium I right?

“I’m not a existent large ‘Mullet Rick’ fan,” Thomas said. “I for illustration nan short hairsbreadth Rickie. It’s wild, he looks astir 5-8 years younger erstwhile he has his hairsbreadth short. He ever has thing – it’s nan stache, it’s nan hairsbreadth – but it’s Rick, you know, you’ve sewage to emotion him for immoderate it is.”

This conception pinch Thomas easy was nan item of nan precocious night-early greeting coverage, and further impervious that Thomas, who was awesome moving pinch Charles Barkley and institution connected nan broadcast of The Match, has a early down nan mic erstwhile he’s fresh to bent up nan spikes.

He moreover delivered 1 much statement worthy of chuckles. As he signed off, DeLaet said what each man is expected to opportunity to a soon-to-be papa: “You’re going to beryllium a awesome dad.”

“Aah,” Thomas said arsenic if he was touched by nan comment. “That’s nan nicest point you’ve ever said to me.”