Justin Thomas is aware of that he can depend himself fortunate to be enjoying on the Ryder Cup in Rome this month. And the PGA Championship double-winner has admitted that ready for a name from USA captain Zach Johnson was like attempting to get again in contact with an ex-girlfriend. Thomas was one in every of Johnson's six wildcard picks for the American crew and with out query probably the most contentious. The 30-year-old former world No. 1 has been in depressing kind main as much as the showdown in Rome.

He missed the lower at three of this 12 months's 4 Majors, ending tied sixty fifth within the different and has missed 5 cuts in complete because the starting of June. As a outcome, he didn't make it into the PGA Tour's end-of-season playoffs.

But Thomas is an enormous title on the earth of the Ryder Cup, with spectacular historic statistics to again him up. In the tip, Johnson couldn't look past his file of 6 wins 2 losses and 1 halve and handed the world No. 24 a wildcard spot.

The choice to pick him has been criticised in some quarters within the States, however Johnson defended his selection by calling Thomas the "heart and soul" of his crew.

Nevertheless, the Florida-born star revealed that ready to study his destiny was a harsh expertise that taught him a lesson.

Thomas mentioned: "It was brutal. I told Zach after the fact that I compared it to like if you had an ex-girlfriend that you were trying to find any excuse you could to reach out to them to get in contact, that’s pretty much how I felt like with Zach.

"I understood it wasn’t going to be one thing the place I textual content him and he’s like, 'hey, simply to let you realize, we’re at like a 60 per cent.' No, that’s not what I used to be searching for in any means, form or kind. It’s very robust when you may’t do something about it.

"It was like when Zach called, it was a lot of emotions, but like a relief was almost the first thing, and excitement. It was a lot. I had a lot of sleepless nights and then at one point it just kind of finally hit me, I had accepted the fact whatever was going to happen was going to happen, and I was OK with that. And I was always going to be supportive regardless of what happened.

"I'm simply very excited, lucky, glad that it ended the way in which that it did."

Thomas will likely be paired on the first two days with his boyhood friend Jordan Speith, who also had to rely on a wildcard selection but was as good as guaranteed to be included in Johnson's team.

That would be music to the ears of Thomas, but having made the team, he is determined to take the lessons of what was an agonising wait.

"I did put quite a lot of strain on myself to make this crew as a result of it means a lot to me," he said.

"But it was a beneficial studying expertise for me. I'll use it going ahead. You can need one thing too badly, and there is occasions this season I did. I'm very, very lucky to be right here."