Justin Thomas can put down the driver and grab a controller: The former PGA Championship winner made the cover of the “PGA Tour 2K21” video game.
Thomas, still only 27, already has won 12 times in five years. That includes a major at the PGA Championship, a World Golf Championship at Firestone and two FedEx Cup playoff events.
He has won a FedEx Cup and reached No. 1 in the world. He’s ready to tee off in the game on its Aug 21 release. Thomas played as a kid — notably the wildly popular Tiger Woods games — but only recently again picked up gaming in his time off during the coronavirus pandemic. “The last, I would say, seven years of my life have changed a little bit in terms of what I have in free time,” he said. “When I started playing