May 15, 2022; McKinney, Texas, USA; Justin Thomas plays his shot from the second tee during the final round of the AT&T Byron Nelson golf tournament. Mandatory Credit: Raymond Carlin III-USA TODAY Sports
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The 2022 PGA Championship is set to begin on Thursday at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It has what looks to be a star-studded list of competitors, including Tiger Woods, who has won the event four times in his career.

The tournament will be without the defending champion of the event, with Phil Mickelson withdrawing from the event last week amidst some major controversy surrounding his golf career.

Justin Thomas is amongst the top golfers attending the event, and currently sits behind only Scottie Scheffler and Jon Rahm in terms of odds to win the tournament.

He has won the event before back in 2017, and is very much in contention to repeat at this year’s event.

Thomas did stress some frustrations about the PGA Championship this week, though, particularly with just how expensive the event can be for fans that are attending.

He replied to a Twitter post from GolfWeek detailing how expensive food and drinks at the event are for fans, featuring $18 beers and $16 salads.

“$18(!!!!) for a beer… uhhhh what. Gotta treat the fans better than that!”

Many golf fans also chimed in following Thomas’s reaction, agreeing with him that these prices are certainly too expensive for the average golf fan.

These prices do seem a bit outrageous when you consider you can get a meal at any chain restaurant for around the price of what just one beer will cost you at Southern Hills Country Club for this event.

Even just a bottle of water costs $6 at the event, which virtually anyone will likely buy if it is a hot day on the golf course.

While these types of things typically don’t get too much attention, it is certainly garnering Thomas a ton more fans to speak about some of the issues fans run into when going to golf tournaments.

[Golfweek, Justin Thomas]

About Reice Shipley

Reice Shipley is a staff writer for Comeback Media that graduated from Ithaca College with a degree in Sports Media. He previously worked at Barrett Sports Media and is a fan of all things Syracuse sports.

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