Justin Thomas has been no stranger to vaulting up leader boards this season with low rounds when he needed them most. At the U.S. Open, it was a moving-day 63 at Erin Hills that gave him the 54-hole lead, which he ultimately could not convert. On Sunday at the PGA Championship he posted a four-under 68, this time to win his first major.
On Sunday at the Dell Technologies Championship, Thomas produced one of those performances again, shooting a bogey-free eight-under 63 at TPC Boston that has tied him for the lead with Marc Leishman at 12-under 201.
Thomas, 24, owned the par 4s, making birdies on eight of them, including a 26-foot bomb he rolled in on the par-4 17th. He had 12 3s on his scorecard, setting a FedEx Cup record. The putter was not kind to him his first two rounds, when he made just 145 feet of putts total. He eclipsed that total on Sunday, rolling in 156 feet of putts en route to the low round of the tournament.