Justin Thomas is trying to catch momentum, sporting a mustache. Well, in his own admission, the look helps him get into gear for the roller coaster of the playoffs. The 16-time PGA Tour winner arrived at the FedEx St. Jude Championship clean-shaven as usual and finished T47 for the week. But now he seems to be catching the facial look trend while rushing a spot at East Lake. One that has been eluding him this week.
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The PGA Tour posted a new look on X as Thomas spoke to the media. A reporter asked him directly about the change, and he didn’t hold back his reasoning.
“Is this a playoff mustache, by the way? I’m just kind of, yeah. Jill brought that up the other night. She’s like, ‘Why the mustache?’ And I’m like, ‘Jill, it’s hard to explain that we will do anything for some momentum, and this is where we are right now. We have a little playoff mustache.”
Thomas’s wife, Jillian Wisniewski, seems to have a similar reaction to Scottie Scheffler when Ted Scott, his caddie, showed up at Memphis with a full-grown mustache. Scheffler had roasted Scott, saying it is something “he always does this time of the year” before joking that he looked “stupid.” The exchange went viral, and in Thomas’s own words, he’s after the same thing Scott was chasing: a spark. Unlike Scott, however, Thomas is still sporting a subtle mustache.
The spark in his game, though, remains missing as he fights to secure a spot at East Lake. He started his week at the BMW Championship with a 3-under 67, built on five birdies and two bogeys.
“I was telling my wife it feels like it’s the last tournament of my life,” he told Golf Channel after his round. “It’s play well or the season’s over.”
He tried to gain momentum on Friday with an eagle on the par-5 17th, which pushed him to six under. Even with two rounds of progress, the number still projects him outside the top 40 in the standings. He would need a solo seventh finish on moving day to secure a spot at East Lake.
Moreover, the week before at the FedEx St. Jude Championship wasn’t easy on him either. Thomas hit the range for extra work over the weekend, hoping to fix what had gone wrong at Memphis. He described leaving TPC Southwind in a way worse place mentally than he wanted to. He closed the week at two over on the weekend for a T47 finish.
The past year offers a reminder of how quickly things can turn. Thomas finished T33 at the 2025 BMW Championship, six over for the week, a result that looked shaky on paper. But he had already banked enough points throughout the year to sit comfortably at East Lake. Once there, he closed with five under in the final round to finish T7 at 13 under.
Thomas may not have the cushion this time. He heads into the weekend needing roughly 15 spots in two rounds for East Lake and the Presidents Cup.