Thomas gets caught by unraked bunker

It’s the sort of thing you’d see at the local muni. Justin Thomas saw it at the PGA Championship.

On his final hole of the day, he drove into a fairway bunker, and the ball came to rest inside an unraked pitch mark. The defending champion had no choice but to pitch out, and ended up making bogey to close out the day with a 1-under 69.

Disappointed? Yes. But it could’ve been worse.

“I’ve never had my ball end up in somebody else’s pitch mark in a bunker before,” he said. “That was a pretty terrible break on my last hole. Could have cost me one or two strokes. It’s just unfortunate for someone not to rake it, but it is what it is.”