Passionate Justin Thomas admits he still gets 'p****d off' more than he should after bad weeks at the office. The American star produced a brilliant Friday 64 in gusting winds to join Scottie Scheffler at the top of the leaderboard at the Travelers Championship. Thomas was a picture of dejection last week at the US Open when he played terribly by his own admission and missed the cut at a second-straight Major. The 32-year-old hung around Oakmont on the Saturday to put in graft and help his game, but it didn’t stop him hurting at the display and he admits it still takes longer than he would like to get over bad showings and close the book. Thomas said: “It unfortunately hasn’t become any easier. I still get pretty p****d off about it and it weighs on me more than it should. I think you hear a lot of guys talk about it, their golf defining them and it doesn’t change who they are as a person. But I still very clearly think of myself as my person of how I’m playing golf. I would like to change that, but it’s just the reality. It means a lot to me. “You could say it’s good or bad, but coming to a place that I like and I feel like I kind of know, it’s a lot easier for me to get over last week versus if I was going to a course that I haven’t had success at or I feel like I have a hard time playing, then it could be a little like: Uh oh, what are we going to do kind of thing. “It’s a great tournament and it’s deserved a lot of accolades and a lot of respect from players and fans and everybody. Now the guys are coming to play it. I think they see it. It’s a really fun golf course, especially after the week after the US Open. That can sometimes not be that fun. It feels like a little bit of a relief. It also still requires a lot, but it’s a totally different kind. “I went out and practised a good bit Saturday because I felt like I played pretty terribly and wanted to get some work in. I felt I was close and just wasn’t sharp. Just too many shots that weren’t good enough.” Thomas, who won this year's RBC Heritage, delivered some magic with five-straight birdies down the nine nine to rifle himself towards the summit in Connecticut and it was even-more impressive given the buffeting winds which hit TPC River Highlands and put the brakes on some scoring. He said: “I felt like I was in good control. I just kept it out of trouble, but it’s still a good sign on a really windy day that, if I have far from my best, I can just get it around the course and then just stay patient. “It was a lot of crosswinds and the difference of riding the wind and holding the wind has a big difference of distance control and everything. It’s hard to get in the rhythm and I kind of struggled with that. I’m giving it enough room to stay luckily in the fairway. “The last probably three or four years, I’ve just committed to almost hitting driver or three-wood and just kind of hitting just a little like dinky kind of shot out there. Something to where like I don’t care what it looks like. I don’t care anything. I’m just trying to hit it in a fairway and whatever is most comfortable doing that. "I think it’s why I have had some good rounds in conditions like this because I can’t really play golf swing, I have to play way more golf and I can’t be over the ball thinking about what it’s like here. getting this way or one way or another, with the winds blowing 25 or 30 off my left shoulder, I need to figure out how to make it not go right and it’s just all feel. There’s something to be said for that. I just need to do a better job of doing that when it’s blowing five miles an hour and not 35 miles an hour. "It’s why Scottie is so good in the wind, he hits the middle of the club face about every time. That’s a huge part of it. The distance control. Hit the shot that you’re requiring. It’s way more art because you just have to create and kind of feel out there. “I played so many rounds of golf and so many different kinds of conditions that I think you almost have like kind of muscle memory or just memory of stuff in past. And then you just try to hopefully pick up on some things that you’ve learned and just notice. Like in an Open Championship or something or, or, or any tournament, you’re kind of not middle of the pack or something and see like windy conditions, I just get excited because I know it’s extremely difficult and a couple under goes a really, really, really long way. I just try to embrace it and feel like I do a decent job of that.“