Justin Thomas celebrates PGA Championship win with Tiger Woods
After claiming his first major title at the PGA Championship, Justin Thomas enjoyed a celebratory dinner with his idol, Tiger Woods, on Monday night.
Woods tweeted a photo of himself posing with Thomas and the Wanamaker Trophy:
Got to have a great dinner with the PGA champion @JustinThomas34 and his family and friends. pic.twitter.com/QwVo5aJ0bg
— Tiger Woods (@TigerWoods) August 15, 2017
Great dinner! Glad to spend the night with TW. Learned a lot from him through the past few years https://t.co/gIQZiebyzE
— Justin Thomas (@JustinThomas34) August 15, 2017
Thomas remembers watching Woods win the PGA Championship in 2000, and spoke Sunday about how special it was to have the golf legend support him during the tournament.
"That's kind of the first memory for me in terms of being at a golf tournament," Thomas said, according to Ewan Murray of the Guardian. "I wanted to play professional golf but being at the PGA that week and just hearing the roars, seeing what Tiger was producing out there. Him and that week was the reason that I was like, 'OK, this is really what I want to do.' And then to have him basically cheering me on, it's bizarre, it really is."