Justin Thomas finishes miserable Open Championship first round with brutal quadruple bogey

An already unhealthy spherical for Justin Thomas ended with a nightmare on the 18th gap Thursday.

Thomas shot a 9 on the par-5 18th and completed with a gap spherical of 82 at The Open Championship.

The 2-time main winner entered the ultimate gap of the primary spherical already 7-over par, having simply three-putted on the par-3 seventeenth. However nothing on the primary 17 holes got here near what he did on 18.

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His tee shot went out of bounds, so he was hitting three again from the tee field. His fourth shot wound up in a greenside bunker, and that is the place the true bother began.

He had no angle to rise up and down, so he aimed off the inexperienced. Regardless of a tough swing within the lure, he hit it manner too fats and wound up within the different greenside sand.

As soon as once more, Thomas had no shot to get on the inexperienced together with his lie, so he really hit his sixth shot backwards and into a number of the thick stuff. Thomas lastly was on the inexperienced in seven.

Justin Thomas of america reacts on the 14th gap throughout The 151st Open at Royal Liverpool Golf Membership July 20, 2023, in Hoylake, England. (Gregory Shamus/Getty Pictures)

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Thomas had roughly 12 ft for a triple-bogey save, and naturally, his putt got here up one roll quick. After the faucet in, it went down as a quadruple bogey.

His day even began out terrible, as he chipped right into a bunker off the inexperienced on the very first gap.

On the time he entered the clubhouse, Thomas was tied for 154th on the day with only one participant behind him on the leaderboard — Taichi Kho, who shot a 12-over 83.

Thomas has struggled in each main this yr. He missed the reduce at each the Masters and U.S. Open, and he completed tied for sixty fifth on the PGA Championship. He has extra rounds within the 80s (two) in majors this yr than made cuts, together with his final main spherical being an 81 at Los Angeles Nation Membership final month.

Justin Thomas hits out of a bunker on the 18th inexperienced on the primary day of the British Open at Royal Liverpool Golf Membership in Hoylake, England, Thursday, July 20, 2023. (AP Picture/Kin Cheung)

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