Justin Thomas supplied up an honest accounting of his disappointing season on Instagram.
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Two-time main champion Justin Thomas has an annual custom of publicly revealing how shut he got here to conducting his goals for the season. And even after a 12 months that he referred to as his “least successful” on the PGA Tour, he isn’t shying away from airing out the place he got here up brief.
Each December, Thomas posts a list of his goals for the earlier season on Instagram, together with an accounting, aided by emojis, of which of them he achieved and which of them he failed to attain.
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Last 12 months in the course of the 2021-22 season, Thomas had a powerful report, successfully checking off eight of 13 goals, together with profitable his second main on the PGA Championship.
Unfortunately for this 12 months’s submit, 2023 was a troublesome one for the Tour veteran that noticed him fail to win and acquire solely 4 top-10 finishes, as Thomas painfully recorded for everybody to see.
In all, Thomas listed 9 separate goals he had for the 2022-23 season. Among the hopes JT had for 2023 have been to “Make Tour championship,” “Win 3+ times,” “Win 1+ major” and to succeed in “#1 in the world.” But subsequent to every of these goals Thomas typed a crimson X emoji, acknowledging that the purpose went unfulfilled.
In truth, just one of Thomas’ 9 goals featured a inexperienced checkmark figuring out it as a objective he reached: “Make Ryder Cup team…” But even that success was marred by one other failure on the identical line: “… and win the cup.” Team Europe handily defeated Thomas’ U.S. workforce on the 2023 Ryder Cup in Rome.
Thomas added a prolonged written message, wherein he poked enjoyable at his lack of accomplishments (“Well… at least I got one check mark!”) and defined why he places himself by means of this public accounting every year.
“I’ve always been a goal setter, but also have enjoyed being candid about sharing them at seasons end,” Thomas wrote. “Everybody is different in their goal setting. I’ve always been one to set the bar high to try and work toward them and achieve them.”
But he additionally displayed a optimistic perspective on what he may be taught from his disappointing season, and he expressed gratitude for his workforce and the issues that did go properly.
“While 2023 was my least successful year on @pgatour, it provided my best opportunity for learning experiences and areas to grow. I’m thankful to have an amazing team around me who works their tails off to continue to work hard to win tournaments and improve,” Thomas wrote. “We saw LOTS of positives and great things these last few months.”
For now, Thomas will take “a few weeks off with family and friends to relax,” and maybe begin crafting new goals for 2024, which will probably be Thomas’ tenth on the PGA Tour.
