-Justin Thomas, It is great to see you.
Welcome to the show. -Thank you.
-I have to mention something because I was
looking at you before the show.
And you have a giant scrape on your face there.
-Yeah. -Can we zoom in?
Can we see that in camera three maybe or four?
Yeah. -Yeah, I got a little --
-So I thought maybe you just got in a fight or something,
you know, as golfers do. [ Laughter ]
You went out there and just scrapped with somebody.
And you did. -Yeah. Yeah.
No, it was an intense battle on the golf course, and --
-Yeah. -It actually wasn't that.
-What was the name of this guy that attacked you?
-This is Dale.
[ Audience aws ] -Yeah, Dale.
-This was before he attacked me, for the record.
-So he gave you a kiss first and then he attacked you.
-Yes. -That brutal beast, Dale.
-I mean, look at him. He's a monster.
-Looks like a tough guy. Yeah, absolutely.
Who is Dale to you?
-So, it's my fiancé's maid of honor.
We were in Chicago this past weekend and we stayed at
their house, and woke up in the morning and Dale was there
and greeted us while we were in bed, and...
-There you go. -This is what happened.
-I want to congratulate you, by the way.
Last week you played in the Presidents Cup on Team USA,
and you guys won.
Come on! That's how you do it.
[ Cheers and applause ] -Thank you.
-It's got to be exciting. That's a big moment right there.
-Oh, yeah. -I know Jordan Spieth,
your buddy, you won with him.
You're best friends? -That's what the media says.
Yeah, I guess we're gonna buy into that.
-Yeah, I'll buy into it. But you guys played together.
Are you competitive still? Or you go, now we're teammates?
-Well, I guess in that situation, no, we're teammates.
It's nice because I've been playing with him for so long
and watching his game, I know what he's capable of.
And it's really nice to be rooting for him as opposed to
not rooting against him, but maybe not rooting
for him like I do normally.
-As best friends would do. Yeah, as friends would do, yeah.
-So, I guess, yes, we are competitive.
-Yeah, I think so, too.
You did something I thought was pretty cool on Instagram.
You posted your goals for the year.
And take a look at these.
Why do you post this out to the public?
To put more pressure on you?
-I don't know. It's something I've done.
I've always felt like I've liked making goals and just --
you know, I have some that are more achievable than others
and I have some that are more difficult.
But I make everybody on my team do it.
So my caddie will do it. My dad, who's my coach, will do it.
My putting coach will do it.
You know, I'll do some stuff with my trainer.
Because then -- And then I make everybody
share it with each other, so everybody's held accountable.
And I think it's -- when I go back to it at the end of the
year, I'm able to, you know, see what I did, what I didn't do.
And then if somebody on my team says that they were going to do
something in their goals and they don't do it,
well, they're the one that wrote their own goal,
so I'm able to get on them a little bit.
-Hey, come on. -Yeah.
-How is it having your dad be
that close to you with your career?
-It's great. It's great.
We have an unbelievable relationship.
I think we've done a really good job over the past, you know,
handful of years of -- well, one was probably me maturing.
Maybe my stubbornness got out of the way a little bit.
-Every kid does. -Exactly.
Just separating the father/son and player/coach, you know.
We know that when we're at the golf course,
we're there for business and when we're away from
the golf course, he's my dad and one of my best friends.
So I'm very, very lucky to have him.
-What does your dad do when you do something bad?
Does he look at you and go like...?
[ Laughter ] -Yeah.
-I remember playing baseball and eventually I felt bad for my dad
because I was so bad and all the dads kept giving
my dad advice on how to make me better.
I was like, "Dad, you don't have to come anymore."
-Look at you now. -Look at me.
-One of the best baseball players in the world.
I mean, thank you. [ Laughter ]
We're like twins. -Yeah.
-But it must be interesting.
Even as a dad to go like, you got to make your moves.
Sometimes I'm more coach. Sometimes I'm more dad.
And, like, how much pressure do you put on your son?
-I mean, he is great because I think my grandpa was pretty hard
on him, so he understands that he didn't like that.
So he knew not to do it to me.
-Too much. -Exactly.
So I'm very, very lucky, like I said.
We have a great relationship. And he's, I would say,
the opposite of -- sometimes I would like him to be harder
on me because he feels like he doesn't want to interfere.
He doesn't want to say something that would mess me up.
But we've -- Not arguments, but we've had these
conversations many times.
I'm like, "Dad, we're out here. You're my coach.
You're not my dad. You're out here to make me
better at golf, and that's what you need to do."
-I love that.
I was recently golfing with Justin Timberlake.
-The other J.T. -Yeah.
The other J.T.? -Yeah.
-I guess he can go by that, yeah, the other J.T.
[ Laughter ]
But, you know, serious, serious game.
I take it very seriously. I was out there with
Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes, and I had a shot
out of the bunker in the sand.
A lot of pressure. -I think I saw that.
-Well, if you missed it, we have it right here.
-Yeah.
-Oh! Go in! Go in!
-Oh!
[ Cheers and applause ]
-I mean, no big deal. No big deal right there.
You saw it.
I know you wanted some tips from me.
All that stuff. We'll get to that later.
You know, I'll talk to your dad. We'll figure it out.
-I think one of my favorite parts about that video is,
you always hear the -- when people maybe overreact --
not saying that that was overreacting.
But the whole -- -That was overreacting?
-Like act like you've been there, and it was very clear
that you had never been there in that moment.
[ Laughter ]
But I love it. It was great. -That's so funny.
-It was great. -That is so funny.
You're right. I've never been there.
[ Laughter ] -Sorry, sorry.
-While you've been competing recently,
I know that you've been followed by a film crew.
They're doing a documentary coming out next year on Netflix.
-Yeah. -Do you get nervous when
the camera is always on you or are you just used to it now?
-I think, and to be perfectly honest, in a situation
like this, I'm a little more nervous with a film crew
because this is not my comfort zone.
When I'm on a golf course, that's what I do.
So I'm very comfortable in that atmosphere.
But I think it's going to be great.
It's going to be on Netflix early 2023.
It's just going to give, first off, a lot of people
outside of golf to take a look at inside of golfers' lives.
But just see more of the day-to-day.
I mean, they had moments where they're in the car with me
driving to the golf course, or they're watching me workout,
or they're having dinner with some guys, whatever it is.
And I think it's going to be a really cool thing
for people to see.
-You do this thing, it's like your signature move.
After you take a shot, you twirl your club.
And it's almost like, to me, like a mike drop.
And I have a couple clubs here. -Okay.
-I was just wondering if you could just teach me how to do it
and just do it on "The Tonight Show"?
-Yeah, I'd love to.
Where would you like to face?
Are we hitting this way?
-No, hit to the audience, right?
[ Cheers and applause ] -Yeah.
So, I mean, we don't need to take the full swing obviously.
But it's like, you know, you follow through -- I want to make
sure I don't hit anything up here.
-Yep. -And then, you can kind of --
it depends on if you're left- or right-hand dominant.
I think Tiger likes to go right because then you can kind of
get the little -- you can get the hand in there.
That was good. That was great. That was awesome.
Or you know you can go left and just -- it's just kind of
the swagger sometimes that golfers can attempt to have.
I know we don't have a lot. -No, I can try.
So, just up, follow through -- -It's just kind of natural.
You're following through, and then just --
-And then spin it. [ Cheers ]
Like that? -That's good enough.
-Let's do it together. Ready? -Alright.
-One -- Wait.
Two should be here, right?
-What's that? Oh, so we're like --
-Oh, maybe this. -Are we back to --
-No, now we're in a movie. We're in a buddy cop movie.
Alright. On two we'll be up here.
-Okay. -So we need to be --
-So it's up on one? -Yeah.
-Okay.
-One, two, three.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Justin Thomas.
Check him out on the PGA Tour this season.
We'll be right back with a performance from Sam Hunt.
Stick around, everybody!