PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — If the talent pool in men’s golf were any deeper, the winners each week would be speared by frogmen. A day after Jordan Spieth, the 21-year-old Masters champion, bowed out of the Players Championship, Justin Thomas, 22, moved into contention with a 10-birdie performance at the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass.
Thomas’s seven-under-par 65 in Saturday’s third round catapulted him into a six-way tie for fifth at eight-under 208 with a group that included Sergio García, whose winning score here in 2008 was five-under 283.
“It was one of the best rounds I’ve probably ever played in competition,” said Thomas, a native of Louisville, Ky.