Lefty Major champs Bob Charles, Phil Mickelson, Bubba Watson and Mike Weir plus the Aussie trio of Richard Green, Greg Chalmers and Nick O’Hern along with last year’s European Tour ‘Rookie of the Year’ Robert MacIntyre will be smiling broadly.
This is after Rickie Fowler posted a score of 94 and good friend Justin Thomas failed to break 100.
On Sunday, Fowler ‘smacked’ Thomas by five shots in shooting a round of 60 at Jupiter in Florida and then on Wednesday Fowler posted a video of a shirtless and shoeless Thomas playing a shot from a muddy water hazard.
Then on Thursday, and clearly not concerned for ‘self-isolation’, the pair held a “Lefty Championship” and shared the experience on social media and reported by Golf.com
It didn’t take Thomas long to get frustrated playing ‘cack-handed’ in hurling a club and Fowler commenting: “Big fine coming for the club throw.”
Fowler also joked about one shot that Thomas sailed out-of-bounds, calling it “Oscar Bravo,” and said of one of his playing partner’s shots into the water: “JT’s over there getting the SCUBA gear out.”
Fowler later landed a 160-foot shot out of a sand trap onto the 14th green and Thomas remarked, “That’s just not at all what I needed. Probably the best shot of your life. That is dumb.”
Fowler shot a front nine 49 and Thomas 44 but with Fowler again defeating the 2017 PGA Champion with an eventual round of a 22-over par 94 to Thomas’ a whopping 29-over 101.
At the end, Fowler posted a picture of the two with the scores, while Thomas assessed the damage.
Thomas said: “Good news is I played nicely on the front. “Bad news is I played TURRRRRIBLE on the back. Fun lefty match with my guy @rickiefowler though #sticktorighty”
