In search of the four long millions which are at stake for the fourth time this season, the LIV Invitational, a tournament sponsored by Saudi Arabia, will end on Sunday in the suburbs of Boston.
Dustin Johnson, results
On the day of the move, the highlight was the performance of Dustin Johnson, author of 63 shots, looking for his third tournament in New England, he pocketed nine birdies and an eagle, in addition to adding three bogeys, this which earned him a two-stroke disadvantage over Talor Gooch, also from Dustin Johnson’s team, and one over Chilean Joaquín Niemann Among the Spaniards, Sergio García notably improved his first day performance with a 64 (five birdies, an eagle and a bogey) and is fourteenth; Eugenio Löpez Chacarra, nineteenth, after repeating a card of 68 and Adrián Otaegui (70 strokes) is forty-fifth after a bland round made of small strokes and errors.
Dustin Hunter Johnson (Columbia, June 22, 1984) is an American PGA professional golfer. His partner for years is Paulina Gretzky, with whom he had two children. American model and singer, she is also the daughter of the famous Canadian hockey player Wayne Gretzky.
Endowed with extraordinary physical power and a very powerful swing (with a left wrist at the top of the swing that is not very academic, but very loaded), he is one of the longest players on the circuit, and for three consecutive years ( 2009-2011), he finished third in the middle distance rankings.
Turned professional at the end of 2007, he has won 20 tournaments to date, and is currently the only player on the PGA Tour to have won at least one tournament each season. He also has four WGC titles, including the second, won in 2015, after returning from a period away from the field, for personal problems.
Indeed, between 2009 and 2014, Dustin Johnson tested positive in three different doping tests, once for marijuana twice for cocaine. Following this, the PGA Tour did not issue disciplinary measures, nor broadcast the news, but it was the player himself who decided to withdraw from professionalism for 6 months.
In 2010 he was the protagonist of an unfortunate episode when, at the head of the PGA Championship, the last major tournament of the season, he incurred two penalty strokes on the 72nd hole, for having intentionally put the head of his club in a bunker, not having recognized it because it was very ruined and in a passage area for spectators.
After pocketing the last putt on the 18th hole, thinking he was tied with Bubba Watson and Martin Kaymer, the latter of whom graduated and then won the following play-off, he was informed of the two-stroke penalty which took him from first place to fifth.
. After other important finishes in major tournaments, including second place at the 2011 Open Championship and second place at the 2015 US Open, where on the 72nd hole with 3 putts he gave victory to Jordan Spieth, he finally managed to triumph, winning the US Open.
2016 Open. A few weeks later, he won the WGC – Bridgestone Invitational, claiming the eleventh victory of his career. That same season, he won the third leg of the Fed Ex Cup playoffs, the BMW Championship, and was named PGA Tour Player of the Year.
In 2017, he won the Genesis Open and became world number 1 for the first time. Two weeks later, from world number 1, he won the WGC Mexico Championship. At the end of March, he won the WGC Match Play, becoming the only player to have won all four WGC tournaments.
At the end of August, he won the first FedEx Cup playoff, the Northern Trust. In January 2018, he won the Sentry Tournament of Champions with an 8-stroke advantage over second-place finisher, bringing to 11 the consecutive seasons in which he won at least one tournament.
In June of the same year, he won the FedEx St. Jude Classic, thus regaining the place of world number one, after ceding the leadership for a few weeks to his compatriot Justin Thomas. In July, he won the RBC Canada Open.
In February 2019, he won the WGC Mexico Championship for the second time in three years, taking his victories to 6 on the WGC circuit, second behind Tiger Woods, a few weeks after winning the Saudi Arabia Open organized by the European Tour.
In June 2020, after the PGA Tour resumed from the lockdown period, he won the Travelers Championship for the first time, earning his twenty-first PGA Tour success and bringing it to 13 consecutive seasons in which he was successful. to win at least one title.
In August 2020, he won the Northern Trust again with the record score of -30 under par, he finished the season by winning the FedEx Cup for the first time. On November 15, 2020, he won the first Augusta Masters with a total of 268 (-20) strokes, the lowest score ever in the competition.