Thomas Takes Early Lead at Troon Open
TROON, SCOTLAND | A year is a long time in linksland golf. Last July, Justin Thomas carded an 82 in the first round of the Open Championship at Royal Liverpool, a calamitous effort that included five bogeys, two double bogeys and a quadruple bogey-9 at the final hole. “That’s 8-year-old, 9-year-old kind of stuff, not…