Justin Thomas: Not taking shot at Talor Gooch for Ryder Cup comment

Justin Thomas may have laughed off Talor Gooch’s comparison, but he said that he wasn’t taking a shot at him when he mentioned in a post-round interview earlier this week that the packed house at the JP McManus Pro-Am felt “pretty close to a Ryder Cup today.”

Gooch was ridiculed online over the weekend when he said, in the wake of his team’s victory at the LIV Portland event (which earned them another $750,000 apiece), that the atmosphere felt like one of the frenzied team events.

“I haven’t played a Ryder Cup or a Presidents Cup,” Gooch said, “but can’t imagine there’s a whole hell of a lot of difference.” Even his LIV teammates, Dustin Johnson and Patrick Reed, who have played in several…