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FILE - Justin Thomas poses with the Wanamaker Trophy with his dad Mike, after winning the PGA Championship golf tournament in a playoff against Will Zalatoris at Southern Hills Country Club, Sunday, May 22, 2022, in Tulsa, Okla. Thomas returns to his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, on May 16-19, 2024, for the PGA Championship at Valhalla. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

PGA CHAMPIONSHIP '24: Justin Thomas gets rare experience playing a major in his hometown

Justin Thomas returns to Valhalla in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky for the third time, with one big difference

By Doug Ferguson
Published - May 10, 2024, 02:41 PM ET
Last Updated - May 27, 2024, 12:59 AM EDT

Justin Thomas was back home in Kentucky for an occasion different from any other time in Louisville. The city honored him with its “Hometown Hero” award, and a 60-foot banner was unfurled from the building he used to pass on the way to Saint Xavier High School.

Thomas was so choked up at the presentation he couldn't speak until he eventually said, “The things I've felt today, I've never felt in any golf tournament I've won.”

This was a week before the best golfers in the world — one of them a Louisville native — arrive for the PGA Championship at Valhalla.

It's rare for a player to have a hometown major in a city that doesn't have a steady diet of championship golf. Thomas is curious how he will respond. He is a two-time PGA champion, winning at Quail Hollow in 2017 and Southern Hills in 2022, which also was his last victory as he continues to work his way back into form.

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