Justin Thomas has weighed into the debate regarding what happened at The Masters between Bryson DeChambeau and Rory McIlroy.
DeChambeau and McIlroy were paired together for the final round of The Masters at Augusta National two weeks ago.
After the round had finished and the Northern Irishman won the tournament, DeChambeau caused huge controversy by saying McIlroy didn’t speak to him the whole way round.
As we all know, some players on tour like to chat, and some don’t.
The likes of Tiger Woods and Sir Nick Faldo would never engage with their opponents, whilst players like Phil Mickelson and DeChambeau like to converse with their playing partners.
DeChambeau congratulated McIlroy for his win the day after The Masters, but despite that, there was still some criticism aimed at the LIV Golf star for his comments after the final day’s play at Augusta.
And now Thomas has weighed into the debate.
Justin Thomas responds to Bryson DeChambeau’s comments on Rory McIlroy at The Masters
Thomas had his own problems at The Masters, after being forced to use a temporary caddie with his regular bag-man Matt Minister struggling with a bad back.
Coincidentally, Thomas actually won the following week at The RBC Heritage with Max Homa’s former caddie Joe Greiner on the bag.
Since that victory, the 31-year-old American has been a man in high demand.
During his appearance on the Pardon My Take podcast, Thomas was asked to give his opinion on the comments made by DeChambeau about McIlroy.
Co-host Eric Sollenberge said, “If you’re in the lead going into Sunday, do you talk with your opponent, because I know Bryson was a little miffed. He was miffed at Rory for not chopping it up out there on the course. I feel like a lot of guys just do their own thing, but what do you think?”
And Thomas responded by saying, “They do (guys do their own thing). Especially when it’s twosomes. I think when it’s threesomes it’s way slower and it’s just different, you have way more time when you’re waiting and you have time to talk more. When it’s twosomes there are times when you’re kind of going you’re separate ways the whole time. And also I’m not really out there to have a big conversation. I mean, you’ll catch up here and there but I’d say that’s pretty normal for everybody that we’re just out there trying to take care of business.”
McIlroy was clearly in the zone at Augusta National during the final day of The Masters, whilst DeChambeau was trying to feed off the energy from the crowd.
There’s no right or wrong way of doing things as such, it just comes down to what makes each individual feel comfortable
Easy to see why Thomas took McIlroy’s side rather than DeChambeau’s
All players are different, as mentioned earlier, so DeChambeau shouldn’t really have expected anything from McIlroy.
However, the pile-on aimed at the LIV star has been slightly harsh.
Thomas clearly took the side of McIlroy rather than DeChambeau because they are PGA Tour allies.
Had the reigning US Open champ still been a PGA Tour member, with McIlroy having absconded to LIV, Thomas view on the matter may well have been completely different.
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