Justin Thomas and Rory McIlroy are among the winners on the PGA Tour in 2025, triumphing at the RBC Heritage and The Masters respectively.
Thomas clinched his first PGA Tour win of the season immediately after McIlroy won The Masters, whereby he completed the career grand slam.
He now has five major championship wins to his name, with Thomas currently on two, both of which have come at the PGA Championship.
Both Thomas and McIlroy now turn their attention to the Truist Championship, which is immediately followed by the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow.
Philadelphia Cricket Club is the venue for the latest event, with the Myrtle Beach Classic also taking place this week.
The joke Justin Thomas made with Rory McIlroy about his win at The Masters
And ahead of the former, Thomas was asked if he stayed at Augusta National when he finished to watch the final stages of The Masters.
“I unfortunately had finished kind of like when the leaders were teeing off, but I’m a golf fan,” he responded.
“I was very excited to get home and watch the entire round on TV. I was fortunate to see Rory at home after that, and I joked with him.
“I was like, you know, as the golf fan in me, I wanted a good tournament. I wasn’t necessarily… didn’t want anything… I don’t want to say like bad to happen to anybody, but I wanted… I didn’t want to see somebody win by four or five as a golf fan, not specifically who it was.
“Then for a second I was like, all right, dude, it’s a tournament now. You’re good. You can go ahead and enjoy watching it like the rest of us. No, I was glued to the TV, and I was very excited to watch.”
And when asked if he is ‘volume on or volume off’ when he watches, the American replied: “Good question. I don’t really care.
“I’d say in a perfect world it’s probably volume off and maybe music or other things going on. Yeah, it probably just kind of depends on the situation.”
Justin Thomas shares his confidence level ahead of the PGA Championship
Both McIlroy and Thomas secured their titles via playoffs, with the former edging out Justin Rose at Augusta and the latter seeing off Andrew Novak at Harbour Town.
Ranked second and fifth in the world respectively, the pair are now seeking success at Philadelphia Cricket Club, with Thomas full of praise for McIlroy ahead of the event.
And that competition will be used by both to fine-tune their games for the PGA Championship, where Xander Schauffele is the defending champion.
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Thomas meanwhile was also asked to compare his current confidence level to that of last year and two years ago heading into the majors, saying: “I felt pretty good with everything last year going into majors. There’s even some times two years ago where I felt pretty good. It’s a fickle game.
“I don’t necessarily at this exact moment feel as good as I did on Thursday of Harbour Town or Sunday of Harbour Town, but that doesn’t mean that I’m going to feel better than that tomorrow or the next day and so on and so forth.
“I think I’ve gotten better out of more similar when I’ve played some of my best is understanding where I’m at that day.
“I know that I have the firepower in my game to go make 10, 11, 12 birdies in a round because I’ve proven that.
“So it’s more about not… you know, my bad round being 2-under or 1-under or 3-under. It’s not shooting those over par rounds at three, four, five over.
“I joked with Rev [Matt Minister], it’s like maybe I can just do a better job of vocalizing that, whether it’s to him or myself, and strategically playing differently.
“So when I do shoot 61 on the Friday of The Players, it’s not to make the cut by a couple, it’s to maybe get in the last group or something.
“It’s little things like that that could be the difference of having chances to win tournaments than kind of finishing around that middle mark.”
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