Sitting on his recliner chair, a smiling Justin Thomas feels “a whole lot of nothing.” Not our words, but his. A week ago, Thomas broke the news of his microdiscectomy to the world. As he spoke from the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, a visible concern clouded his face. He was not to play golf for the coming few months. That’s a challenge in itself until he opened up about the actual gut-wrenching feeling.

Speaking on the PGA Tour’s Cut Line Show , he admits at first that he’s good. But the feelings are “strange,” especially when you have a little one at home. “It’s a pretty helpless feeling when your daughter looks up at you and wants you to pick her up, and you just can’t. She’s one, and you can’t explain to her why,” Thomas said with a melancholic smile. Just a few day

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