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The 2017 PGA Championship winner has recorded four top-10
finishes so far in 2022, a little over a year after he won the
Players Championship by a one-stroke margin, a promising sign as
he fights to don the Green Jacket for the first time.
More importantly, perhaps, he told reporters at Augusta that he
had changed his mindset around the prestigious golf major.
"I feel like I've performed very, very poorly (in majors)," said
the world number seven.
"I've just put too much pressure on myself in the past and maybe
put the tournament on too much of a pedestal and tried to, you
know, just overdo things when in reality I should have faith in
my game and the things that I can do on the course."
The 28-year-old finished fourth at Augusta in 2020, his best
Masters performance, but argued that he had putted better in his
six previous appearances than the statistics might show.
The 14-times PGA Tour winner is hoping to achieve more this year
with six-time major winner Phil Mickelson's long-time caddy Jim
"Bones" Mackay on the bag since September.
"He obviously knows the course amazingly, and I feel like I know
the course very well too," said Thomas, who arrived with Mackay
in Augusta last Tuesday to go over strategy.
"I think it will just be kind of more game-time stuff, decisions
here and there that he'll be helpful. Hopefully we can create a
little bit of the success he's had here."
The first round of the Masters starts on Thursday.
(Reporting by Amy Tennery in New York; Editing by Ken Ferris)
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