HONOLULU

One of the gifts Justin Thomas received from winning the Sony Open was a 106- pound book that was said to be the largest in the world. Contrary to the whispers going around the room at Waialae Country Club, it was not filled with the scoring records he set this week.

This was “Equation of Time,” a collection of landscape photography by Australian artist Peter Lik.

Thomas put together his own masterpiece.

It began with a 15-foot eagle putt on his final hole Thursday for a 59, only the eighth sub-60 round on the PGA Tour. It ended with a two-putt birdie from 60 feet that gave him the lowest 72-hole score in tour history.

In between was golf so dominant, from his power to his putting, that the first full-field event of the year was a one-man show.

“I’m not joking when I say I won the other tournament,” Justin Rose said after finishing seven shots behind.

With a lei draped around his neck, Thomas headed home with two weeks of golf that elevated his status beyond a ranking that rose to No. 8 in the world.

The 23-year-old from Kentucky now has four PGA Tour victories, three of them this season dating to his successful title defense at the CIMB Classic in Malaysia. The other two were in Hawaii, starting with his three-shot victory at Kapalua last week in the SBS Tournament of Champions.