Full Swing (2023) s01e01 Episode Script

1
[suspenseful music playing]
[man] I was a pretty cocky
and arrogant kid.
I would tell anyone that would listen
that I was gonna
be the best golfer in the world.
- [man 2] Growing up, watching Tiger Woods.
- [man 3] Tiger!
[man 2]
This guy's the same skin color as I am.
[reporter] Do you think
you can win the Masters this week?
I do.
[man 4] The PGA TOUR is the pinnacle
of men's professional golf.
[woman] There's just
a whole different level of competition.
[man 5] There are
over 50 tournaments a year,
with over 100 golfers at each event.
[woman] Any player will tell you.
You cannot emulate
the feeling of a major championship.
[man 6] If you don't win a major,
you can't be considered
one of the all-time greats.
There's nothing like the life of a golfer.
It's a traveling circus.
[announcer]
This is starting to get interesting.
If you're gonna be a pro golfer, you have
to accept that it'll be a wild ride.
Fuck are you doing!? Jesus.
[horn honks]
- Joey! Tell Joey to move his fucking cart.
- [man 7 laughs]
Oh no.
[man 8] One word
to describe golf this year
Disruption.
There is a power struggle
going on in golf.
[reporter 2] Officials in Saudi Arabia
are trying to create a new golf league
to rival the PGA TOUR.
[man 6] LIV has offers out to some
of the biggest names in the sport.
Everything's got a price, I guess.
It's not really like anything
that we've seen in sports before.
[woman 2] It's rattled the golf ecosystem,
hasn't it?
Honestly, it's going to shape the future
of professional golf.
[man 6] The golf world is teeming
with storylines right now.
[man 10] The game has never been more
controversial than it is this year.
[cheering]
[man 8] I mean, they're pulling you
in so many different directions.
What's noise, and what's not noise?
You can't, almost, believe
what's happening in the game.
I did not envision any of this happening.
It's a totally different situation now,
and anything can happen.
[crowd cheering]
You have picked a hell of a year
to start following the PGA TOUR.
[man] Hey, Jill.
We just left the golf course,
and we're gonna go to the airport,
and then we're gonna fly back home.
Yeah, we'll see you in a little bit.
- Can you guess the card for 1,000, Justin?
- I'd love to.
- Take a guess.
- Seven of hearts.
Ace of clubs.
All right, one more guess.
[Thomas] I know exactly what it is.
I want the top card.
It's an eight of hearts.
Shit!
[Spieth] Yeah, maybe next time.
Louder ♪
[announcer] Everybody's talking about
the two amazingly talented freshmen,
Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth.
[Thomas] I've played golf against Jordan
since we were 13.
[announcer] Justin Thomas.
Missed cue left.
We've grown up playing against each other,
and we've just kept battling it out.
[announcer]
And Jordan Spieth in firm control.
[Thomas laughing]
[Thomas] I was very jealous
of everything that Jordan did.
[Spieth]
And how's second place feel for next week?
Pretty good?
[Thomas] I mean, you could go as far
to say angry,
because it's like it wasn't me.
I'm born to win ♪
[announcer] One of the epic performances.
[announcer 2] The United States
Open champion, Jordan Spieth.
[announcer 3] And the champion golfer
of the year, Jordan Spieth.
[cheering]
[man]
Jordan turned pro before JT did.
Jordan was 21 years old
and was number one in the world,
and JT's reputation at that time
was kind of Jordan's friend.
I'm born to win ♪
I'm born to win ♪
[Thomas] He's one of my best friends.
We're always gonna pull for each other,
but at the same time,
you know, I hope that I beat him
at every single tournament that we play in
for the rest of our life.
[boat horn blares]
- [Thomas] What's up?
- [man] How are you?
[Thomas] Good. How are you?
You're good. I got it.
Gotta make it seem like I can do something
for myself every once in a while.
Just sometimes.
[man] We're not sure what direction
he's gonna hit this yet.
- [kid laughs]
- [Thomas] I did always wanna be a golfer.
What you got there? Oh!
[Thomas] I was probably
a year and a half or so
when I started screwing around
with plastic clubs.
[man] Oh! Good shot!
[Thomas] My dad
[man] Oh, you gonna stretch a bit.
[Thomas] He's been
a club pro for a long time.
My grandpa was a PGA pro
for 50-plus years.
If I look at the order, I should be able
to find it. Yes, still here.
Looks like we started in '99,
so he'd have been six years old.
Kind of cool.
Looks like we stopped in 2021.
Guess he reached the end there.
[chuckles]
If I was going to play a sport, it wasn't
gonna be anything other than golf.
[man] One
[woman] Two
[child] Three!
[man] Oh my goodness!
[cheers]
[Thomas] It just so happened
this was, fortunately for me,
the only thing I was good at.
[man laughs]
Thank goodness.
[cheering]
[Thomas] So I pursued a career in it.
[announcer] And Thomas
with the finishing touches.
Third generation PGA professional.
[fan whistling]
[Thomas]
Winning my first major was awesome.
But, um, haven't won another since then.
I'm eager. I'm ready. I know
that I'm playing well enough to win.
To be perfectly honest, just kind of
pissed off I haven't gotten it done yet.
[man] How is your relationship with Jordan
nowadays? Are you guys still tight?
Yeah, uh, he's the best man at my wedding.
So I hope he'd say the same.
[chuckles]
Speaking of
Jordan's calling me right now.
What the hell does he want?
- Hey, man. What's up?
- [Thomas] Hi, Jordan.
Do you think for my speech
for your wedding,
that I've already completed and memorized,
obviously, and have an acting skit for,
do you think there's anything
I should avoid, or add in, or
[Thomas] Pretty much whatever
your instincts tell you, avoid that.
- Okay. All right. So stick to the script.
- All right, see you.
Okay, buh-bye.
Sick.
JT and Jordan are
two of my closer buddies out on tour.
Yeah, I'd do just about anything for them.
- Here we are, for scorecard update.
- Justin Thomas up one hundred.
Jordan Spieth down 60.
Rickie Fowler down 60.
[Fowler] We're, in a way,
kind of all out there and in it together.
You do get a sense of satisfaction when
you do see a friend succeed and play well.
But there's also kind of an underlying
kind of kick in the butt, like
I don't want to see him beat me.
I wanna go beat him.
[Fowler] One, two, three, birdies!
When's the first time you met?
Was it a golf tournament?
Yeah. It was here in Texas.
Our 2011 high school class
was really strong.
I mean, there's probably a dozen guys
that still have tour cards 10 years later.
So it was really competitive,
and we were one and two in the country.
You know, when you watch both of them,
their passion is to be the best,
and Jordan just came out with that flash.
That's never gonna happen again.
It's not like Jordan's dropped off.
Winning that many majors early on, I mean,
that's hard to continue to do that.
And then you have Justin Thomas, who's
been getting better and better and better.
And you could say that Justin
has closed the gap on Jordan.
But Jordan still has the potential
to be great.
[Greller] That looked great.
[upbeat music playing]
[applause]
[announcer] It is a gorgeous day.
The Harbor Town Golf Links.
The PGA TOUR so proud
to present to you the RBC Heritage.
[cheering]
[boy] You're my favorite golfer!
RBC Heritage,
because of how early on in the year it is,
it can end up being
a trampoline to the rest of the year.
[Renner] Every player plays with
this confidence that you have to have,
that when they're playing their best,
no one can beat them.
[Morikawa] You want to play well and win.
What I look for is just
can we perform week in and week out?
[Johnson] Every facet of your game
has to be firing on all cylinders
if you want a chance
to hold that trophy on Sunday.
Yeah, I'm down. I'm around all week, dude.
Let's tee it up.
[Fitzpatrick] Success this season
will be winning on the PGA TOUR.
I want to get to world number one,
just to prove to myself that I can do it.
As a rookie, you definitely want to
be known as the top dog in your class.
And my goal is to win Rookie of the Year.
Golf on the PGA TOUR is difficult, tiring.
It's stressful.
But we just know
there's gonna be ups and downs.
This game's a roller coaster ride.
[Thomas] I just feel like if I just go
for a weak left hand
and try not to dig,
it's never really gonna get in trouble.
[Thomas] If you're competitive
and a good player,
all it takes is one week
and your life changes.
[announcer] Next on the tee,
from Louisville, Kentucky, Justin Thomas.
[tense music playing]
[Renner] So a regular PGA TOUR event,
it's four rounds. It starts on Thursday.
There's a full field
around, let's call it, 150 players.
They play Thursday and Friday.
[announcer 2] This little one for the par.
- [man] Yeah, baby!
- [applause]
[man 2] Let's go!
[man 3] Whoo! Whoo!
[Renner] Unlike other sports,
you're trying to record
the lowest score possible.
From there,
if you're not in that top 65 and ties,
you have missed the cut.
- [crowd] Oh!
- [announcer 3] That hurts a bit.
[Renner] You are not getting paid,
and you're going home.
[applause]
[Renner] This pressure just gets
higher and higher as the days go on,
and then Sunday afternoon,
we crown our champion.
[announcer] Thanks for joining us
for the final round from Hilton Head.
[cheering and applause]
[announcer] Got a chance
[cheering]
[announcer] How about that.
Jordan Spieth from the bunker.
That's an eagle for him
at the second hole.
He knows he's in this thing.
[announcer 2]
He hasn't won since last April,
but he's looking to
change that here today.
[announcer 3] JT.
Really struggled with the putter this year.
[announcer] Well, that is a sloppy bogey
for Justin Thomas.
[announcer 4] And he'll just be
more annoyed than anything right there.
The biggest thing for me, in terms of
weakness in my game, is just capitalizing
and trying to get some momentum,
you know, trying to get myself
back in position
and playing with that confidence.
[man] Let's go, Jordan. Win this thing!
[announcer] This, for a third eagle.
Home.
[cheering and applause]
[announcer 3] Just a struggle
with fairways today, for sure.
[Spieth] I'm just trying to stay patient.
[announcer] Ah, he clipped a tree there.
[Spieth] It can be deflating sometimes.
[announcer 5] Hasn't won since
THE PLAYERS Championship 2021.
Been close, but he's still looking.
[announcer] Spieth has 12 career wins,
and two of 'em ended
with a bunker shot at the final green.
Could he do it again?
Oh, seriously!
- What a shot!
- [announcer 3] Yeah.
[cheering and applause]
[crowd chanting] Let's go, Jordan!
[cheering]
[announcer]
Jordan Spieth breaks the winless drought.
Good for him. What a win.
[Spieth] Winning out here feels great.
But for me, it was more of a relief.
[man] Way to go, Jordan!
[Spieth] Once that happened,
I've got some momentum.
[girl] Jordan!
[crowd chanting] Jordan Spieth!
[Spieth] I mean, it's so easy
to say you just gotta get over it, but
it's always easier said than done.
[Spieth] I don't like the detach feeling.
Oh, no, no. I don't like that either.
It's like That's why
I try to hit some slow.
- So I can go like
- Yeah. I'll get a picture.
[Mike] I guess I could say
I've been Justin's coach since day one.
- Feels like I'm, like, back here.
- [Mike] Yeah, let's just try one more.
I mean, that's a difficult thing, being
a parent and a coach at the same time.
Look at the line on your shaft.
- I wanna see, like, my hands, like
- Like how far out they go?
[Thomas] Fucking hate that, man.
[Mike] I mean, any time that he is
in any state of discouragement
or something about any performance
that he recently had,
it ultimately always comes back to,
let's not forget you're pretty good too.
Everybody's going to have times
where they don't perform
at the level they want to perform.
Do you remember
the shoot we did out at, um
[sighs] I want to say
it was for Coca-Cola,
in that old house out in Dallas.
Yeah, and there was one they were going
to do something similar the year before,
and then the weather was bad,
it turned into the one
when I was hitting shots on the
[Moses] That ended up
being the best commercial.
- Like, all the trick shots in the trailer.
- Yeah.
- [Moses] All right.
- Thank you.
[Dethier] Obviously, the goal at every
PGA TOUR event is to win,
but when guys actually do,
they don't just get the trophy
and the first-place check.
- [man] So this is your fake home, huh?
- Hmm?
- Yeah.
- [man] This is your fake home?
It's really nice.
[Dethier] They get fame and notoriety
and sponsor deals.
You went there to win a golf tournament,
and you end up turning into a celebrity.
[man 2] So what we want to do is just be
authentic to golf and be authentic to you
so that it comes off the right way.
- That cool?
- Yeah.
[Foley] The trick is to know
that the reason
that these companies
want to be a part of you
is because you perform and you succeed.
But subconsciously,
there's more pressure to perform,
because, you know, you want to do well
for the people supporting you.
Yeah, I'm not an actor,
so you guys tell me if I'm saying it wrong
and say it different.
I will not take offense.
- [woman] You are good.
- [woman 2] Quiet in the house.
You see, you need to rotate your hips.
Mopping can help with that.
Start in the hallway.
[woman 2] And cut.
Jordan, you're a natural.
- Just gotta teach me like that, you know?
- [woman 2] Yeah, you're great. Honestly.
Hello. Good morning.
I wanna put these away. How are you?
- Keys are in the car.
- [woman] Okay, thank you. Have fun!
- All right. See you.
- [woman] Thank you, guys. Bye!
[Rapaport] There are four tournaments
in golf that stand on their own.
They're above everything.
You have the Masters.
You have the PGA Championship.
You have the U.S. Open
and The Open Championship.
And winning one of those four,
that's how the great players are measured.
[Thomas] The PGA Championship this year
is at Southern Hills.
Come on. Type it in, Jordan.
Look up the directions to Southern Hills
before we get in the air.
[suspenseful music playing]
I know absolutely nothing about it,
so that's why I'm doing this today.
Last time I played it, I was 16, so
And I think they changed the golf course.
That's why we're here.
Added about 500 yards
and got rid of, like, 600 trees.
The quick trip
of a 40-minute flight there and back
to go play practice rounds before majors,
it just totally made sense.
[rock music playing]
[Thomas] How you doing?
Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth.
We're gonna try to play some golf today.
- [Spieth] You ready, Justin?
- Sure.
Uh, what do you do wanna do?
[Thomas] Do a hammer game?
- Fifty hammer, birdie double?
- Yeah. Something like that.
Let's just do that.
Fifty hammer, birdie double.
[Thomas] Oh my God.
It's literally 60 yards farther
than I thought it was going to come down.
Yeah, it's in the middle of the fairway.
[blows raspberry]
[Thomas] Practice rounds, money games,
it's kind of good prep for a tournament,
you know?
Grab a wedge from you.
- A solid smash.
- Oh my God. You gotta be kidding me.
That was so good.
[Thomas] But losing isn't as bad
as having to give that person your money.
[Spieth] Oh, it landed on the green!
[Spieth] We play a lot
of practice rounds together,
and it's a lot more fun when people
have to watch him hand me money.
Hammer!
- Shit!
- Thanks.
God, what a terrible minute that was.
[Spieth]
You'll never get mad at free money.
[Thomas] It's just like watching them
walk away with your cash,
and they have that bragging rights on you
until the next time you play again. Sucks.
- Come on, Justin.
- Oh no.
- You go in the water?
- [Thomas] It went in!
[Spieth] We both want to push each other.
- It's inspiring.
- Wow. Hello.
A little bit of kind of fire.
- Damn it!
- Shut up.
Fuck you, Justin.
I wanna end up having more wins
than he does.
- [Spieth] Wow! Meow!
- [Thomas] This is so
[Mike] I mean,
they're big practical jokers.
Justin, the first year
he played in Phoenix,
Jordan paid the valet
to move his cart off-site.
[Spieth] Throw? A hundred dollars?
Am I going first?
[Mike] So he came out to get in his car.
It wasn't there.
[Spieth] This has got potential.
Of course, he knew immediately who it was.
Jordan's like,
"I dunno anything about that."
He was literally there for two hours
before he told him and the valet got it.
Hey, man. How do you think
your year's going, Justin?
Pretty average. How about you?
[Spieth]
It was pretty average, and then I won.
[laughs]
[Fowler] They're the first to either
help each other
or give each other shit
or whatever it may be.
Being able to use it
to your advantage, that's a lot of, like,
just solid, like, personal satisfaction.
Squeeze.
All right, on your side.
Oh man.
There you go.
[trainer]
We're trying to get the most out of him.
[grunts]
[trainer] So even if it's, like, 1%,
that's a game changer in what
he's accomplishing week after week.
[Tullier] Good. From that socket.
Let's get it.
Ten and ten. Good.
That's perfect.
[Renner] You cannot emulate
the pressure of a major championship week.
[Tullier] Here we go.
Load, load, load. Yep.
Players learn the most about themselves.
[Tullier] Good. Just like that. Two.
- [Renner] How they react under pressure.
- [Tullier] Awesome.
[Renner] What they need to control
under pressure.
[Tullier] Good. One. Yes, sir. Two.
[grunts]
- [Thomas] Majors are definitely different.
- [Tullier] Good job.
[Thomas] You'd think
the preparation and the mindset
and everything toward them is the same,
but it's not.
It's really screwed up to say,
but it's almost like you try harder.
[Dethier] Jordan Spieth is always
gonna have the PGA Championship
circled on his calendar
because he needs it
to complete the Career Grand Slam.
That means winning
all four major championships,
which is a feat that only five players
in the game's history
have ever been able to accomplish.
If he could win and finish off
the Career Grand Slam,
that would cement Spieth's status
as an all-time legend of the game.
[pensive music playing]
[Tullier] Bang.
[Dethier] But if JT were to win,
now that major championship gap
is three to two.
So the difference between the careers
of Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas
would start to look a lot smaller.
2020, Kolby made me
finish my abs right here
to just stare
at that DJ Player of the Year banner.
[Tullier] You see those up there,
you either wanna get another one
or you're tired
of one guy getting them all.
[Thomas] I hadn't put anything up there
in a while, so it's pretty motivating.
Should have to take 'em down
after a couple years.
[man] Do you think you can win
the PGA this year?
I know I can win the PGA Championship
this year. [chuckles]
I mean, I know for a fact,
1,000%, that I can.
It's just a matter of if I will or not.
[announcer]
Good morning from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
We are here at Southern Hills
for the PGA Championship.
[upbeat music playing]
And we know that you out there are anxious
to see who we've got this morning.
[boy] Jordan! Jordan!
[announcer]
Well, it's loaded everywhere you look.
There's so many talented guys on tour.
It's so hard to win out here.
Any week someone can get hot,
and they'll be tough
to catch unless you have your A game.
- [man] Rory!
- [man 2] Rory!
[fans] Rory!
[golfer]
This is my sixteenth year on tour.
The pinnacle of golf is always gonna be
the four major championships.
But the four that I've won
were so long ago
that I feel like I'm trying
to win my first one again.
[reporter] One of the biggest stories
is who is not playing.
Defending champ, Phil Mickelson.
[reporter 2] With Phil, is it strange not
having the defending champ here this week?
And just the whole Saudi golf story.
What's your take?
It's unfortunate Phil's not here.
I mean, his accomplishment last year
was one of the greatest accomplishments
in the history of the game.
[announcer] Phil defeats Father Time.
[cheering]
He's taken major championship golf
to a place it's never been.
The current champion hasn't played
since making comments
about the new Saudi-backed golf series.
[Dethier] The idea of LIV
has been around for years,
but now there are actual rumors
about real contracts
and offers being floated
to guys like Phil Mickelson.
[man] At first glance,
it looks like it's just another tour.
It's a competitive tour.
What's the problem with that?
But when you look deeper and you think,
"Well, where's the money coming from?"
It threatens the foundation of the game.
[indistinct chatter]
[man 2] Let's go, Justin!
[Chamblee] Who'll take the money?
Who's not gonna take the money?
Who's going to resist the money?
Who's gonna draw a line in the sand?
I love where I'm at.
I've been saying that for a long time, so
none of those, um, distractions
weigh on me whatsoever.
Now on the tee, the 1999, 2000, 2006,
2007 PGA Champion, Tiger Woods.
[cheering and applause]
[man] Love you, Tiger!
[cheering and applause]
[announcer] The second round is underway.
[applause]
[announcer 2]
Heavyweight group this afternoon.
There's McIlroy, Woods, and Jordan Spieth.
[announcer] Now we gotta look at Spieth
on the left-hand side.
[crowd] Oh!
[announcer]
Not the start that Spieth was envisioning.
Justin Thomas. Birdie opportunity.
- [cheering]
- [announcer] That's how you do it.
[optimistic music playing]
[man] Right!
[crowd] Oh!
[man] What was that?
[announcer] That's gonna hit Tiger's ball.
[announcer 3]
Maybe it's gonna be JT's week.
[cheering]
[announcer] It looks like he is
in complete control of what he's doing.
[Thomas] We're only halfway
and have a lot of golf left.
But if I just keep doing what I'm doing
and staying patient,
then, um, you know,
I'm excited for the week.
Oh, Jordan what are you doing?
[announcer] Uh-oh. This has started right.
Get so lucky. I mean, so lucky.
- Ugh.
- [announcer] He did not get lucky.
What a round. Will Zalatoris
and Mito Pereira, JT leading the weekend.
Gonna finish my, uh finish my day today.
- Half the field's in here.
- [Spieth] I know.
I was like, "Oh yeah,
nice, quiet work out. Perfect."
Not yet.
[Spieth] Give it time. Give it time.
You'll get there.
[Thomas] It was a very, very fun day,
and it was great golf.
I mean, I had total and complete control
of my golf ball.
[man] Make sure to turn around so
the cameras can see the GolfForever logo.
- You guys get that logo?
- [Spieth] I'm not sponsor
If your company wants to pay me for it,
I'll gladly flip it around.
[Spieth] Swing got a little bit off,
um, which can happen week-to-week for us,
and I didn't make anything.
And that sometimes can be hard
to regain confidence, but
I know what I need to do to go back,
you know, with some momentum.
[horn honks]
- [Thomas] Hey, Chef!
- Fucking asshole.
- [man] Who is that?
- That's our chef. Chef Parker.
Hopefully, my golf is a lot better
than how I sound at the moment. Um
I never had allergies kick my ass
as much as they have this week.
That's why we're making a stop here.
Allergy, allergy and sinus. Oh my God.
Mm
[Thomas] Physically, I'm not in the state
that I would like to be in.
I've just had no energy.
I had no strength.
So in terms of my actual golf game, yes,
I have more unknown than I would like.
But it's basically allergy related.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
[chuckles]
I need that like I need air to breathe.
[woman] Take ten dollars off?
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Unable to process your payment.
Please try again or press help.
Gotta be shitting me.
[machine] Unable to process your payment.
Swipe or insert card
and follow instructions on PIN pad.
- Please try again or press help.
- [Thomas] This is going well.
Hope your checkout process
goes better than mine.
- [machine] Thank you for shopping at CVS.
- Thank you.
[Thomas] Clearly, I'm playing well enough
to be in that spot.
- Hey, Justin. Good luck.
- How ya doing?
[Thomas] Trying to take it one shot,
one hole at a time.
That was fun. That went really well.
Hope that's not a sign of things
to come for this week. [chuckles]
[thunder rumbles]
[announcer]
Good morning from Southern Hills.
The story this morning: heavy rainfall.
[Renner] Moving day, Saturday, is your day
to really make a charge
up that leaderboard.
Players really have to have their best
stuff in order to put themselves
in a position to get it done
with 18 holes to play on Sunday.
[Spieth] Oh my God,
it shot out right. Wow.
- [announcer] Well
- [announcer 2] That's not a good start.
[announcer 3] Untidy three-putt there
from Spieth.
Damn it, just hit it.
[Spieth] I came in with confidence,
and I just didn't get in a nice rhythm.
[Spieth] Oh my God, Jordan.
Why do you have to miss that right?
It's just so screwed there.
How does it go across the hole
right to left?
Ah!
[man] Spieth!
[Spieth] And from there,
it was going to be an uphill battle.
[applause]
[cheering]
[announcer 3] Now on the tee,
please welcome Justin Thomas.
[cheering and applause]
[announcer] The pressure has ratcheted up
in these major championships
on Justin Thomas.
[announcer 2] Starting this day in third,
alone, three back.
[man] Whoo!
[man 2] Yeah!
I dunno if I can get there with a 6-iron.
Maybe.
Sit. Sit.
[announcer] Oh no. No. No.
[announcer 3] That one was,
uh, quite wide of the mark.
[announcer 4]
Tries to make this putt to save par.
[crowd] Oh!
[announcer 5] And no.
So second bogey of the day.
[Thomas] Everybody just be
still as possible, please.
Watching it.
[announcer] It's all coming apart for JT.
[Mike] We had an opportunity
to do something well.
We didn't capitalize on it.
[man] Yeah, JT!
Hit pick. Hit pick. Hit pick!
[Thomas] This sport is freaking brutal.
Damn it, Justin.
[Thomas] How quickly you can fall off
and just not be who you were anymore.
[announcer 5] Oh no. No. No.
[cheering and applause]
[announcer 5] And that will leave
Justin Thomas seven strokes
behind the leader after round three.
[Thomas] Thanks.
[man] Let's go, JT!
[Mike] When we come off the golf course,
he's worn out from allergies,
worn out from the competition.
He went down to the range and hit
a few balls, looking for something.
[Thomas] I just want to at least
have an idea of what I'm doing.
I don't have a clue what I'm doing.
[Mike] And that's not always
the best time to go,
because you're dealing with
a frustrated player
that is venting thoughts out there
that may or may not be true.
[Thomas] I have no thought
I feel like I can go to
to, like, hit a remotely solid shot.
[Thomas] I'm not happy.
I'm pissed off. I'm irritated.
Feel like you truly just
shot yourself out of
opportunity to win a major championship
with a really good chance.
Those moments, I think that's where
the dad side is nice to have
as opposed to the swing coach.
Okay. You're a
You're a cool dude. A cool dude.
[Thomas] I'm beating myself up
and then the dad comes in.
It's like, just take it easy, and you
just gotta let it out and it can't linger.
[Mike] My father,
he was pretty difficult on me.
That was his way to motivate me,
but we butted heads because of that.
I just remember not enjoying, uh,
how I felt being treated that way,
and I just made a promise to myself
I would never treat my children that way.
- [Mike] All right, Baby J.
- Okay, Justin.
Happy birthday to you ♪
Ah!
Happy birthday to you ♪
[Mike] Just always wanted to make sure
that he was enjoying what he was doing.
You know, it was supposed to be fun.
It was the game of golf.
It was not the work of golf.
I know he knows he mighta cost himself
a serious chance at this tournament,
but we can't do anything
about what happened today.
All we can do
is what we're going to do tomorrow.
So that's where the focus has to be.
[dramatic music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[announcer] Final 18 holes have arrived
here at Southern Hills Country Club.
[man] Let's go, Mito!
[announcer] This tournament truly is
in the lap of Mito Pereira.
[announcer 2] Leads by three.
[announcer] Spieth at 18.
[applause]
[announcer 2] The career grand slam,
it's not gonna happen this year.
It was really a defeating feeling,
because I felt good about my game, and I
just didn't quite get there. [chuckles]
[man] JT! Let's go, JT!
[cheering and applause]
[announcer] He's trying to put
the disappointment of yesterday's round
behind him.
- [man 2] Don't do it again!
- [man 3] Let's go, Justin!
[announcer 2] Justin Thomas is
seven shots off the lead.
He has about a 1.2% chance
of winning from that position.
[Thomas] I feel like I need to work myself
into a rhythm,
to play a lot more conservatively
[announcer 3] Putter play
is coming up too short here.
Way better short than long.
[Thomas] until I find something.
[announcer 2] At five.
[announcer 3]
Six bogeys yesterday for Thomas.
[announcer] He's here for birdie.
There you go to two under.
[Mike] The chances of him having
a good day are stacked against him.
[crowd groans]
But just keeping yourself in the game
is the key.
[cheering and applause]
[Thomas] The only thing I can do anything
about is where I'm at that moment
and try to make the best out of it.
[announcer] There you go.
One of those players is going to do
really well and put up a score.
Will it be Justin Thomas?
[man] Go JT!
[Thomas] The goal is to get in contention
on the back nine,
'cause that's when I feel comfortable.
[announcer] And Thomas for birdie.
- [cheering]
- [announcer] Got a beautiful stroke.
He's tied for sixth.
[man 2] JT!
[announcer] We're waiting
for the firepower to arrive.
Maybe he could knock one in here.
- Oh my word!
- [cheering]
[Mike] It's like, hey,
we're moving up this board
and no one else is really doing anything.
They're giving us a chance to catch 'em.
Let's go chase those guys down.
[announcer 2] Oh man, isn't this
starting to get interesting now?
[crowd clamoring]
[announcer] Oh yeah, look at this.
Maybe it is Thomas time.
Come on. Be wide. Be wide!
[announcer] Oh! What a shot!
[cheering]
[announcer 3] He's five under.
Will it be enough?
[announcer 2]
After all that, he's still in it.
[applause]
With golf, because everyone is playing
at different times,
it's just not over till it's over.
[announcer]
Mito Pereira, to take a two shot lead.
[Foley] Anything can happen.
[announcer] No.
[Renner] At the end of Sunday,
if two or more players
are tied at the top with the same score,
they're going to play
three-set holes during a playoff.
[announcer 2] Will Zalatoris
join Justin Thomas at five under?
[cheering]
[Foley] The fact that Justin Thomas
is done for the day
and now he's gotta wait to find out
if he's gonna be in a playoff or not,
that really leads
to the drama of the sport.
[announcer 3] It's all up to Mito now.
A par on the 18th hole
and the championship is his.
Bogey, we're headed towards
a three-way playoff.
[man] Baba Booey!
[announcer] Oh dear.
That is frightening follow-through.
Where is it?
[fan yelling indistinctly]
[announcer] Oh my goodness.
It could make a follow-through.
Oh my goodness, it's in the water.
Oh my goodness.
[announcer 2] No.
Sunk at the seventy-second
and now faces a one-shot penalty.
No!
I fucked it up. On the last hole, man
[announcer] All action stations.
[Thomas] Plenty of room here guys.
Thank you.
[announcer] That all happened so quick.
[announcer 2] It really did.
[Mike] We saw that tee shot.
Cole! Cole!
Cole, do you have a monitor or anything?
- [Mike] We're like, oh boy.
- Still got plenty of time, guys.
- We still got a chance. Yeah.
- Mito's dropping right now.
Drop into the edge here, right?
- [inaudible]
- Yeah.
[announcer] After the penalty drop,
Mito preparing for his third shot.
[announcer 2]
Pereira's gotta do something miraculous.
[announcer 3] It's left and not cutting.
[crowd] Oh!
[announcer 2] Oh dear.
[announcer] It's all down to this.
He has to get down in two
to make it a three-man playoff.
[man] Missed the green left. Gotta get
up and down to get in the playoff.
[Thomas] Thanks.
[announcer 2] Might not even stay on.
Oh, there it goes.
[man] He didn't hold the chip shot.
Think he chipped it over the green.
[announcer 3]
Mito's last throw of the dice.
[rock music playing]
[crowd] Oh!
[announcer 3]
Golf can be such a cruel game.
[applause]
[announcer 2] And a tied third finish.
So we know now we have a playoff.
Hasn't been a playoff
in this championship since 2011.
[Renner] They're going to play
against one another in the same group
until one person comes out
with the lowest score.
[man 2] Here we go, JT!
[announcer] Will Zalatoris.
[announcer 2]
Former number-one amateur in the world.
[yelling from crowd]
[announcer 2] Found the fairway.
[crowd] Oh!
[announcer] Advantage, Zalatoris.
[Mike] You gotta be patient and be smart
to stay in the playoffs.
[announcer] Spectacular shot for Thomas.
[applause]
[announcer 3] Zalatoris for birdie.
- [man] Yeah, baby!
- [man 2] Let's go, Will!
[Mike] Come on, J.
- [man] Go!
- [man 2] Let's go!
[cheering]
[announcer 3] Both players with birdies
at the first of the three holes.
[crowd clamoring]
- [man 3] No!
- [man 4] One time, JT!
[announcer]
A nice little twirl. He likes it.
[cheering]
[announcer] He loves it now.
[announcer 2] What a golf shot.
[announcer]
Zalatoris has a birdie putt coming up.
[announcer 3]
About seven or eight feet here.
- [man 5] Oh!
- [crowd] Oh!
[announcer 4] Thomas knocks his in,
it'll be the first time he actually
has the lead since Friday afternoon.
[Thomas] When you have those big putts,
you can almost, like, hear and feel
your heart beating.
[Mike] Come on. Let's go.
[announcer 5] Here's to take
a one-shot lead to the 18th tee
in this three-hole playoff.
[Thomas] Trying to calm yourself down,
it's tough.
[cheering]
[announcer 3]
Birdie-birdie start for Justin Thomas.
[Thomas] But if you're not nervous,
it doesn't mean anything to you.
[announcer 6] Justin takes
the lead over Will Zalatoris
with one hole remaining in the playoff.
[suspenseful music plays]
[cheering]
[announcer 7] He got a straight bounce.
Perfect.
[man 6] Baba Booey!
[announcer 7] That one's on a line.
Way to lock it.
Come on, man.
[man 7] Get in the hole!
[cheering and applause]
[announcer] Went dead straight,
but got it all the way up there.
[announcer 2] Zalatoris, one behind,
has to make a birdie.
[announcer] Get in there.
[man 8] Come on, get in there!
[crowd] Oh!
[applause]
[announcer 2] And Justin, two putts
for his second major.
[Mike] Holy shit.
Come on, man. Two putts, let's play.
Gotta do this. He needs to make his putt.
[ballad playing]
[announcer 2]
From seven down at the start of the day.
[applause]
A husband waits outside ♪
[indistinct speech]
Come on.
A crying child ♪
Pushes a child into the night ♪
[crowd] Oh!
Go in! Go in! Go in!
[crowd clamoring]
[crowd] Oh!
[announcer 2] Five years later
It's Justin Thomas, again,
at the PGA Championship.
[cheering and applause]
One more sweet boy
To be butchered by men ♪
The gateway to the world ♪
Was still outside of reach ♪
- [Mike] I'm so happy for you!
- [Thomas] Thank you, Dad.
Would never belong to angels ♪
Had never belonged to men ♪
The swan upon Leda ♪
Empire upon Jerusalem ♪
[Thomas sniffles]
Well, that's why you never give up, right?
Gateway to the world ♪
[man] She's gonna ask Jim to present
the trophy and help you lift it up.
Celebrate with the trophy and
PGA Champ, bud.
- [cheering]
- When nature unmakes the boundary ♪
[announcer]
Our 2022 PGA Champion, Justin Thomas.
- [cheering]
- Of myth still stands ♪
Whoo!
The swan upon Leda ♪
Occupier upon an ancient land ♪
[Thomas] Winning my second major,
that's something
I've been trying to do for five years now.
I'm speechless. Like, this just happened.
It's over. We just won,
and there's no more shots to play.
[man] Where did you watch
JT's final round?
So, most of the time We stayed
together in a house together that week.
Most of the time we stick around,
but I wanted to get home.
As much as I want to beat him,
when I'm already done and I can't,
then, you know,
he's the guy I'm rooting for.
- Are we going down there now?
- [man] Through the clubhouse.
[Spieth] And if anything, all it does is
it makes me want to move ahead even more.
[Thomas] It just happened so fast, man.
Like, it sucks.
I wish it'd go slower so you could, like,
enjoy it more. You know what I mean?
[man 2]
completed the most historic comeback
in PGA Championship
and major golf history today.
Toast our 2022 PGA Champion,
Justin Thomas.
- [cheering and applause]
- [cameras clicking]
[Thomas] That tasted really good. Um
[clears throat]
Yeah, it just, uh
It feels nice to be here right now.
So thank you all.
[cheering and applause]
[man] What would you say feels better,
winning or beating your friends?
Uh, winning, because if I win,
then I also beat my friends. [chuckles]
The gateway to the world ♪
Was still outside ♪
You are super great. Thank you.
- Congratulations.
- Yeah, congratulations.
- JT, thank you, sir.
- Thank you so much.
Thanks for waiting. I appreciate it.
Had never belonged to men ♪
[announcer]
The next PGA TOUR professional.
Here he is, Brooks Koepka!
[cheering]
[Koepka] For three years,
I was the best in the world.
[announcer 2] Back-to-back bogeys.
I can't compete with them
week in, week out.
[announcer 3]
Scottie Scheffler with another quick win.
[Renner] When Rory is playing at his best,
I don't know who can beat him.
[cheering]
[reporter] Officials in Saudi Arabia
are trying to create a new golf league
to rival the PGA TOUR.
[reporter 2] Is there anywhere
you wouldn't play on a moral basis?
If the money was right,
there anywhere you wouldn't play?
I don't know how to answer that question.
[Johnson] I know I'm one
of the best golfers in the world,
so I don't think
there's anything to prove.
[Renner] He's so talented.
It makes people wonder,
"Why isn't he just winning every week?"
To be a great golfer and be
a great father. Why can't I have both?
[Fitzpatrick] PGA TOUR win,
a dream growing up.
Yeah!
[Koepka] Winning is an addiction.
It's win or go home.
[woman screams]
[cheering]
- Are you miked up right now?
- Yeah.
[laughing]
Netflix, get this.
[upbeat music playing]