Justin Thomas’ wild opening round at the PGA Championship ended fittingly enough, with his left sock and shoe off as he contemplated how to hit from an utterly ridiculous lie after his ball came to rest on a one-foot patch of tall grass sandwiched between a large rock and a creek next to the 18th green.

When dangerous weather closed Augusta National on Monday of the Masters, ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt caught up over lunch with Justin Thomas. Van Pelt recounted how Thomas noted that he wasn’t among the players invited to the press center to speak to the media,