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Justin Thomas expertly takes apart Twitter troll
For a second consecutive week, we saw a virtuoso performance from Justin Thomas. Just this time, it came on Twitter.
Last Saturday, Thomas came as close to perfection as we've ever seen from a golfer at the U.S. Open when he fired a nine-under-par 63 at Erin Hills, breaking Johnny Miller's tournament record for score in relation to par. But on Friday evening, it was JT's perfect response to a Twitter troll that caught our attention.
After missing the cut at the Travelers Championship (an event where Thomas fired a final-round 62 in 2016 to finish T-3), the 24-year-old star tweeted the following:
A perfectly harmless and reasonable tweet. And yet, it got this unwarranted and nasty response from one person:
But check out JT's reply in which he completely takes apart this jackass:
Boom. Roasted. Literally and figuratively. Well played, Justin.