Justin Thomas carded a final-round, bogey-free 68 while fellow American Andrew Novak made five birdies and three bogeys for his 68 to both reach 17-under, setting up a playoff. Thomas defeated Novak with a birdie on the first playoff hole to win the RBC Heritage.
“The putt in the playoff was a putt I feel like I’d seen in the past,” said Thomas. “It’s kind of a funky little pin. If you try to play too much break, it seems like it kind of stays out. But more than anything, like I did all weekend, I just felt like I had my read a little bit outside the left of it being straight and falling right, and I just committed to that and really tried to put a good stroke with good speed on it, and it looked good the whole way.
“This is a golf course and a place that I love. I’ve been fortunate to play a junior tournament here, the Junior Heritage. I feel like it’s a golf course that fits my game or it’s a place that I really enjoy to play because I think it’s a place that rewards good golf, but it can really, really penalize you and you can make bogeys so fast if you get out of position.
“I was really proud today of just staying patient and kind of plotting our way along, and yeah, I feel like winning on a golf course like this is a pretty cool thing to add to your resume. Not that I wouldn’t have taken one wherever I could get it, and still will, but it’s a great feeling.”
This is Thomas’ 16th PGA Tour title in his 250th start at the age of 31. He won in his 59th start since his last win at the 2022 PGA Championship (span of 1,064 days).
He becomes the 58th player in Tour history to reach 16 wins and first since Mark O’Meara at the 1998 Open Championship. He moves to T54 on the all-time PGA Tour wins list and joins: Jack Burke, Jr., Ralph Guldahl, Mark O’Meara, Tom Weiskopf.
Thomas becomes the first 18-hole leader/co-leader to win on Tour in 18 events this season and he improves 7-for-14 in converting the 36-hole lead/co-lead to victory.
Eight of his 16 victories have been in come-from-behind fashion, including the last five.
Tournament (strokes off lead following 54-holes):
2025 RBC Heritage (1)
2022 PGA Championship (7)
2021 THE PLAYERS Championship (3)
2020 World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational (4)
2020 Sentry (1)
2018 Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches (1)
2017 PGA Championship (2)
2016 CIMB Classic (4)
Americans Daniel Berger, Brian Harman and Maverick McNealy tied for third place at 14-under alongside Canada’s Mackenzie Hughes.
Seven-time DP World Tour winner Tommy Fleetwood of England finished 7th at 13-under, earning his 39th top-10 finish in his 153rd start. The most top 10 finishes without a win in the last 40 years on Tour.
World No. 1 and defending champion Scottie Scheffler of the USA finished T8 following a final-round 70, his eighth top-25 finish in as many starts this season.
Overnight leader Si Woo Kim of Korea made a double bogey at the par-3 14th as well as three bogeys and two birdies for a 74 and finished T8.
