Augusta Masters 2020 He is the new patron of world golf
AFP
Hthe last great decade of the decade had to come to recognize Dustin Johnson as the best golfer of that interval of the 21st centuryA single big in the palmars – the USOpen of 2016 – was no reason to recognize him above players like McIlroy and Koepka (4 majors wins each) or Jordan Spieth (3). Now with two, one of them the Masters, the analysis is understood differently.
Unlike Rory and Brooks, Dustin hasn’t built his legend on a couple of inspirational courses. He has won scoring tournaments for the PGA Tour in the past 12 seasons. In calendar year, except 2014, in which he was separated for six months by a positive apparently, for cocaine -Never made official because the American circuit did not reveal sanctions at the time-, He has added 20 victories in the last 10 years, more than any other golfer in the world.
With victory caza a Gary Player, an institution, with 24 wins on the PGA Tour, five of them from the so-called World Cups and six from the FedEx Cup playoffs, including The Tour Championship in which it won in 2020. In that cascade of numbers of the 36 greats who have played between 2011 and 2020 – he missed the Masters’17 because he fell down a ladder when he was the favorite – he has made 17 ‘top ten’, almost one in two, including five second places.
Since on February 17 it reached world number 1 for the first time, and counting that no one will take the position from him until the end of the year, he will be 110 weeks, at least, in front of the golf planet, with the unattainable Greg Norman and Tiger Woods only ahead.
Johnson has always been the flag of his punch. That was the highlight of his game when he first stood as a leader on the last day of a great. It was at the 2010 US Open that Graeme McDowell ended up winning. Dustin threw 82 shots on the final round. There was talk that he was an athlete, that he was capable of dunking in basketball and, too much, that he was the boyfriend of Wayne Gretzky’s eldest daughter, Paulina.
The change he experienced after the sanction was decisive. Everything was sorted in his head. He went from the trick of winning a tournament every season, something simple for a player with that advantage in par 5s, to doing it repeatedly each year. In 2017 he won four times, although the cnit has been this season in which he has only played 18 tournaments – he has been absent a couple of weeks after catching Covid-19 – and has won three tournaments, four times second (Rahm snatched the BMW with that superb putt) … In the last seven tournaments, including three majors, their worst result has been a sixth place at the USOpen.
At the moment it is the sum of a superb drive, a fabulous short game and a dexterity with the putt, especially in the long ones, which makes him a favorite in all tournaments. He is a player made for the greats. He has won Masters and USOpen and has been second in the British and PGA. In large part, de Chambeau’s metamorphosis is an action to resemble Dustin, who was already that way because of the genes.
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