… Accordia Golf Narashino Country Club, Japan 

Forget Brooks Koepka or Rory McIlroy as it’s been Justin Thomas who has been one of the best-performed players in recent weeks on the PGA Tour.

Thomas had slipped to 10th in the World Rankings mid-August at the Northern Trust but since then the now 26-year old has been one of the best performed on the Tour.

Indeed, Thomas has won twice in capturing the BMW Championship and last week’s second victory at the CJ Cup in South Korea, and in between his two wins the American was ninth at the Tour Championship and then fourth at the Safeway Open.

Justin Thomas moves back to World No. 4 in capturing a second CJ Cup. (Photo – PGA Tour)

And in winning what was an 11th PGA Tour career success, Thomas is back to No. 4 in the world.

“It feels good. I don’t feel like I’m on anything crazy,” said Thomas.

“To be honest, I’ve been working my ass off this entire year ever since I got hurt.

“I was playing some of the best golf and I felt like I had played in my career going into the Masters and at the Masters I just fought a cold putter and couldn’t get anything in the hole or else I felt like I easily could have won that tournament, and then kind of put things in perspective getting hurt.

“No, I mean, I’ve worked really, really hard to get back to winning some tournaments. I felt like I was close at the end of the year, just stuff wasn’t going my way or putts weren’t going in the hole.

“We’ve been working on some of the right things and I’ve been doing the things I need to do at home when I’m not playing to make sure I’m ready when I get to tournaments.

“That being said, I understand careers are going to have many ups and downs and heaters and cold streaks, so I’m just going to try to keep playing as much good golf as I can as long as I can.”

‘JT’ was speaking ahead of this week’s inaugural ZoZo Championship here in Japan.