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Justin Thomas Hit an Abysmal But Relatable Chip in the First Round of the British Open

Thomas hit a shot at Royal Liverpool that every recreational golfer can relate to.

Gabrielle Herzig

Justin Thomas Hit an Abysmal But Relatable Chip in the First Round of the British Open
Justin Thomas Hit an Abysmal But Relatable Chip in the First Round of the British Open /

It’s only Thursday morning, but this year’s British Open is already beating up the best professional golfers in the world: Rickie Fowler carded an 8 on the 18th hole, Wyndham Clark nearly whiffed a shot from the tall grass, and Lucas Herbert lost a share of the lead after a triple-bogey disaster on No. 17. 

The list goes on. 

Justin Thomas had a similar moment at Royal Liverpool during the first round of the Open, but the two-time PGA champion’s blunder was far more relatable. 

TV cameras showed Thomas chipping from the opposite side of one of Hoylake’s nasty pot bunkers on the first hole of the championship. He only had a few feet of room to land his shot on the green, but Thomas missed that area completely. 

Instead, he hit the chip directly into the face of the bunker staring at him, and to Thomas’s dismay, his ball immediately plopped down into the pot bunker.

Nothing beats watching Open Championship golf because now Justin Thomas is officially "one of us.” 

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GABRIELLE HERZIG

Gabrielle Herzig is a Breaking and Trending News writer for Sports Illustrated Golf. Previously, she worked as a Golf Digest Contributing Editor, an NBC Sports Digital Editorial Intern, and a Production Runner for FOX Sports at the site of the 2018 U.S. Open. Gabrielle graduated as a Politics Major from Pomona College in Claremont, California, where she was a four-year member and senior-year captain of the Pomona-Pitzer women’s golf team. In her junior year, Gabrielle studied abroad in Scotland for three months, where she explored the Home of Golf by joining the Edinburgh University Golf Club.

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