Justin Thomas ran out of this course without saying a word on Thursday.
He had fired 78 and his players championship campaign was made Jirons after a sad collapse that saw him drop 10 shots in nine holes.
Fortunately, fans were not so in a hurry on Friday night. Many stayed to see how the 2021 champion hung one of the best rounds that this tournament has never seen.
Eleven Birdies and a 62 joint course record that not only secured their place for the weekend, but also led him to Top 30.
Only the spring of 16 shots of the rounds one to two. Give meaning to golf is really a fooling account sometimes.
Surprisingly, it could have been even better for Thomas. There could be a new land, if I had not found the water at 18.
Justin Thomas, from the United States, in Hole 18 after flirting with the course record during the second round of the players championship golf tournament at TPC Sawgrass
Unfortunately, he dropped his first shot of the day in the last hole of the second round. Then, I was happy to talk about this round. It is curious that.
“That was one of the best rounds I have played,” Thomas said. “I felt that I did an incredible job when I stayed, keeping my eyes forward, keeping my glasses put, without looking back, forward, something like that.”
On his opening 78, he added: 'I was obviously upset by my score. The score stink. It was absolutely terrible in every way, shape or form. But it was a coincidence. I think it was the worst driving and the iron game that I have had, probably in a round in my career.
Thomas played with Tom Hoge a few years ago, when he also shot 62. Thomas only recalled that in 17th 17, when he and Hoge appeared on the big screen.
That iconic hole was where it all began to go wrong on Thursday. Here he made a bright Birdie to establish history.
“I forgot until I saw on the screen, I think of 17, Tom Hoge and I hugged, and I thought:” Wow! “
Justin Thomas of the United States reacts on 18th Street during the second round
This time it was the turn of the 2021 champion, he classified the number 9 in the world, which now feels seven shots of the leaders who go to the weekend.
Incredibly, it is clear from his friend Jordan Spieth. They were joint architects of chaos in the early hours of this week's tournament.
They approached and went down the classification and, at the end of everything, Spieth had loaded 70 while his friend disintegrated and broke into the Club House.
It seemed that only one of them would be here during the weekend. But then Thomas left the other side of the bed.
“Jill (his wife) has just listened for a long time,” he said. She was great. Simply stay positive and stay in the future and remember, I am playing a lot of good golf, but the most difficult part was to enter that mentality once we started today '.