- Thomas wins Players Championship by a single shot
- Westwood finishes runner-up for second week running
Last week Bryson DeChambeau, this week Justin Thomas. The scale of Lee Westwood’s achievements just weeks before he blows out 48 candles on a birthday cake can be found in the identity of those who have beaten him so narrowly to titles. Thomas even claimed it required “one of the best rounds of my life from tee to green” to take the Players Championship. As has happened seven days earlier at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, Westwood fell just one measly shot short.
“I take it for what it is: a game,” said Westwood. “We’re just trying to get a little white ball into a little white hole. It gets treated far too seriously occasionally. With what’s going on in the world, it’s fun to be doing a job that I love, that I’ve done for 28 years, and I’m still doing it.
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