But, as legendary Americans Clint Eastwood and Snoop have both said (and as we’ve written on this site before), “deserve’s got nothing to do with it.” Now that DJ has broken through, there are plenty of other players who are stuck at one major and who, by all rights, should have more. Enough, in fact, to make a top-10 list. Let’s count it down, and note that we’re discussing players who are still on the scene and relatively young, which will exclude the Fred Couples, Jim Furyks and Stewart Cinks of the world.

10. Graeme McDowell

This one’s tricky, because McDowell has always been known as a player who accomplished a lot with fewer athletic tools than his average contemporary, and like Geoff Ogilvy, you could argue that he’s an overachieving brainiac for whom one major is about right. He only has four other top 10s in his 54 major championship starts, and of his three PGA Tour wins, one came in the fall and one was the same week event as a WGC. Still, his longevity and his European Tour record (11 wins) gets him on the list, just barely.

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Ben Walton

9. Bryson DeChambeau

This will seem like a troll, particularly for a 27-year-old who just won his first major. But with six PGA Tour wins to his name beyond the U.S. Open (including two FedEx Cup playoff events), a Dubai Desert Classic, a U.S. Amateur and an NCAA national title, he already has the pedigree of a multiple major winner. When it comes, if it does, it will already be statistically deserved.

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Christian Petersen

8. Webb Simpson
Simpson has the same number of tour wins as DeChambeau, but the 35-year-old’s a bit deeper in his career and thus edges ahead on this list based on the strength of experience and his scorching putter. He’s put in the years, and though those years included a long dip after the anchoring ban, he’s redefined his game and found his way back to the world top 10 and lifted three trophies in three years. If he wins another major, he will have earned it.

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Matthew Stockman

7. Sergio Garcia

By the time Sergio won at the Masters in 2017, it was extremely cathartic simply for the fact that it seemed like it would never happen for him. To ask for two almost feels greedy, especially at age 40, but Sergio’s 10 PGA Tour wins and 15 European Tour titles absolutely make you think he should have more in the trophy room. Not to mention the astounding 22 major top 10s he accumulated before breaking through. If the first one didn’t feel like such a relief, he’d be much higher on this list.

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Rob Carr

6. Louis Oosthuizen

For the 38-year-old South African, it’s less about his accomplishments in America (incredibly, he’s never won an event on U.S. soil), and more about how consistently great he’s been in the majors. As CBS pointed out during their Masters broadcast, he has a career “second” slam, having finished runner-up in each major, including two lost playoffs. For someone who has come that close, that often (don’t forget, he finished third at this year’s U.S. Open), there is something more than a little agonizing about just one win.

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Ben Walton

5. Justin Thomas

Here again, we have a player who is incredibly young at 27, and who, at first glance, doesn’t quite belong on this list. But Thomas has had a stunning career so far, with 13 PGA Tour wins—second-most on this list, and just one shy of the man at No. 1, who is more than a decade older. And though there’s no shame in holding just one right now, there’s also no question that he already feels overdue for more.

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Ben Walton

4. Jason Day

From 2013 to 2016, the majors where Day wasn’t in contention were the exception, and he finally captured his first at the 2015 PGA at Whistling Straits. If we talk about missed opportunities, though, starting as early as the 2011 Masters but felt most acutely at the 2013 Masters (when he held a lead but bogeyed 16 and 17 and watched his countryman Adam Scott take the title), then Day is the king of this list. He might also be No. 1 if we talk about pure talent versus wins. He’s won a bunch of tournaments by now, but it took him a while to get his first, and though golf is a sport of peaks and lulls, he’s gone through more than most. It’s no hyperbole to say that he has the game to have won five or six majors already, and one is a low number for someone this good and who has been in the mix this often.

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Sam Greenwood

3. Henrik Stenson

Stenson hasn’t won often in America, but when he does, he wins enormous events, from the Players to the Deutsche Bank to the WGC-Match Play to the Tour Championship. The 44-year-old Swede is a gamer, and for more evidence you only need to see his 13 major top 10s. For a period in 2013 and 2014, it seemed like he was in position to win every major he played. Like Sergio, he got his big title at a time when it looked like it might never happen, and he played one of the most legendary final rounds ever in 2016 at Royal Troon, so you can’t feel too terrible for him. But it’s a fact that Henrik should have more.

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2. Justin Rose

With 16 major top 10s and wins galore, including an Olympic gold medal, Rose at age 40 is a player with a wonderful career to look back on. But at the same time, a career that should be crowned with more than just the single U.S. Open from 2013 at Merion. In that sense, the promise of his T-4 as an amateur at the 1998 Open Championship was never quite fulfilled, and it has to be especially galling that he never won his home major. I’ve written about Rose before, and how much he deserves another major in general and the Open in particular, and his continued excellence has only strengthened the conclusion. If it wasn’t for the player who follows, he’d be an easy top choice.

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Maddie Meyer

1. Adam Scott

I once asked Scott if he thought majors were a fair judge of a player’s career, and this is how he responded:

“You know, history has shown that the greatest players have ended up accumulating the most of these tournaments, and I think it’s probably a fair assessment of who the greatest players over time have been in each decade and each era. So I’m happy with the way everyone sees that.”

It was the usual honest, classy response from Scott, who has one Masters title and nothing else, and who has otherwise accumulated just about every valuable win you can find in this game, from FedEx Cup playoff events to WGCs to the Aussie majors all the way down to the “Texas Slam.” He even has 11 European Tour wins. With that kind of resume, and 19 major top 10s, it’s astounding he hasn’t won more, and like Dustin Johnson before him, the word “deserve” doesn’t quite do the situation justice. He’s the world’s best one-major golfer, and—now that DJ has exited stage left—the best there’ ever was.

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By Matthew Rudy
Rory McIlroy wasn’t able to join the elite group of players who have won golf’s career Grand Slam, but another rare slam was completed on Sunday at the Masters. Claude Harmon III joined his father, Butch, David Leadbetter, Hank Haney, Pete Cowen and Jack Grout as the only coaches to have worked with players as they won each of the four major championships.

Dustin Johnson’s victory joined Brooks Koepka’s two U.S. Opens and PGAs and Ernie Els’ 2012 Open Championship on Harmon’s supervisory shelf—and the circumstances surrounding it might have made it the most meaningful. Harmon endured two separate 14-day quarantines—after student Brooks Koepka’s caddie, Ricky Elliott, tested positive for COVID-19 in June, then again after Johnson tested positive last month. That compressed preparation for Augusta into two weeks—two weeks to get back to the form that had seen Johnson win the Northern Trust and Tour Championship (and the FedEx Cup with it) and to recapture the World No. 1 ranking.

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“From a pandemic to Brooks’ injury early in the season to being on lockdown from Players to Colonial to travelling non-stop every week, it’s just been a crazy year,” said Harmon. “We all have had to adapt, and you have to make the most of the situation you’re dealt.”

Johnson shook off rust the previous week in Houston, tying for second, and came into the Masters a bit under the radar, as so much of the focus was on U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau. “You never say COVID is a good thing, but DJ came into Houston fresh mentally and physically from the time off,” Harmon said. “He was rusty on Thursday, but had good practice Friday and Saturday, and good practice early in the week in Augusta. He plays on confidence. Form is a huge thing for him. He felt—and all of us around him, A.J. [his caddie and brother], Joey D [Diovisalvi, his trainer] felt—that it wouldn’t be a surprise if he had an opportunity on Sunday.”

Masters week was peak Dustin Johnson. He set a tournament scoring record (20 under), another record for fewest bogeys (four), and tied a third for most greens hit (60). Cameron Smith got as close as two shots early on Sunday, but the outcome was never really in doubt. “Adam Scott told me something at Boston that sums up DJ pretty well—nobody makes the game look as easy as he does,” Harmon said. “What I saw last week was the result of five years of hard work. He’s a complete player now. He drives the s— out of it. His iron game is underrated. He’s done so much with his wedge game and short game. And he and A.J. are one of the best—if not the best—on tour in how they work together, make decisions and read greens.

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Harmon thinks that the Masters win could set off a Mickelsonian run of mid-30s major championships for Johnson and said he’s looking forward to helping extend that run however he can.

“To be a part of the team behind DJ last week, and to know his name is going to be on the same trophy as my grandfather—that’s so gratifying,” said Harmon, who was taking Monday off before picking up his regular schedule of member lessons at The Floridian in Palm City, Fla.

“To see A.J. crying on the 18th green and DJ hugging him, I know the hard work that went into that. Lead[better], my dad, Hank—they’re icons of coaching. To be able to do something they did? And to be out here on tour with coaches like Cameron McCormick, Mark Blackburn, Mike Bender and Sean Foley, and younger guys like Drew Steckel? I’m proud to have success in this little sliver of the golf world, and I’m proud to be a part of the modern game.”

RELATED: Dustin Johnson’s emotional (seriously) interview wound up being the best part of Masters Sunday

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By Alex Myers
Dustin Johnson finished his 2020 campaign—no offence to the RSM or Mayakoba Classics, but we’re guessing the green jacket tour won’t go through there—by finishing in the top two in six of his last seven tournaments. The final one of those, of course, being a Masters win in which he broke or tied nine different records.

In addition, Johnson is the reigning PGA Tour Player of the Year and FedEx Cup champion. So not only is he the current World No. 1, but he’s an undisputed one at that. Still, there’s one stat that shows just how good of a year he had that you probably haven’t seen yet. Not that you needed any more evidence.

As longtime golf writer Scott Michaux notes, only 18 players made the cut in all three majors this year (the fourth, the Open Championship was cancelled due to COVID-19). And not surprisingly, DJ led the way in cumulative scoring for those three events.

Johnson finished at 26 under total, which is even more impressive when you consider he was five over at Winged Foot for the U.S. Open. That week’s winner, Bryson DeChambeau, is second on this list at 18 under.

Those two are followed by Xander Schauffele (11 under), Patrick Reed (nine under), and Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm, and Justin Thomas all at seven under.

18 players made cut in all 3 majors in 2020

Cumulative Leaderboard

-26 DJ*
-18 Bryson*
-11 Xander
-9 Reed
-7 Rory, Rahm, JT
-5 Finau, Oosty
-4 Webb, Hideki, Casey
– 1 Cam Smith
+8 Cantlay, Scott
+13 Ancer
+14 Lowry
+20 Bubba

* – winners

— Scott Michaux (@ScottMichaux) November 16, 2020

Johnson was also the only golfer to finish in the top 10 in all three majors. In addition to his Masters win, he finished T-2 at the PGA Championship and T-6 at the U.S. Open.

For a player who now possesses a green jacket, this is just a (small) feather in the cap. But it’s yet another reminder of who the man to beat is going into 2021.

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By Shane Ryan
In the shadow of Dustin Johnson’s comprehensive win at the Masters, a narrative that has been building for years continued to gather steam at Augusta. It’s the story of the transformation of men’s professional golf by a group of young players not yet 30 who come from the large swaths of the globe that are not the United States or Europe, and would fall under the “International” umbrella as defined by the Presidents Cup. For convenience, let’s call it the “Green Wave,” after their uniforms in Australia last December. The Green Wave encompasses budding talents like Sungjae Im and Abraham Ancer, both of whom made the final group with DJ at Augusta National; Cameron Smith, who became Johnson’s biggest challenger on Sunday; and Sebastian Munoz, Hideki Matsuyama and C.T. Pan, all of whom hung around near the top of the leader board with varying degrees of success in the final round.

What five of those six players have in common (all but Munoz) is that they played together at the 2019 Presidents Cup, an event that looks likely to grow in significance historically as a turning point for things to come. At Royal Melbourne, the out-gunned Internationals, armed with a woeful record over the history of the matches and a massive deficit in World Rankings, stunned the jet-lagged Americans during the first three sessions before Tiger and his charges found their feet on the brink of elimination and squeaked out a 16-14 win. Despite the eventual American victory, there was some degree of shock at the close outcome, and the fearlessness of the youngest Internationals. Im and Ancer each went 3-1-1, Pan finished 2-1, Matsuyama 2-1-1 and Smith, though the only one of the Masters Five to finish at .500, won a critical late singles match against undefeated American star Justin Thomas that could have proved decisive.

It was a statement, but maybe not exactly the kind of statement we thought. At the time, it seemed like it might be a harbinger of tighter matches to come in the Presidents Cup. In light of the Masters, though, and a handful of results that preceded it, the events of that weekend now look like the coming-out party of a specific youthful demographic that hasn’t been covered nearly as much as the Americans and Europeans emerging alongside them.

When we think of the young stars of golf, we think of Jon Rahm, Matthew Wolff, Collin Morikawa, Viktor Hovland. Rightly so—they’ve all had tremendous success, and Morikawa is a major champion. They’re also, generally, younger than their international counterparts. Sungjae Im, at 22, can stand alongside them, and so can Chile’s Joaquin Niemann, but players like Ancer, Smith, Munoz, Pan and Matsuyama are now in their late 20s. At the moment, most of them also lack the résumé of their American counterparts. All but Ancer have won on the PGA Tour, but most of them just once (aside from Matsuyama, whose star has slightly faded in recent years). In the World Ranking, 40 of the top 50 golfers are still from the “Ryder Cup countries.” None of the Internationals have won majors, and in fact the last non-American, non-European player to do so was Jason Day in 2015 (at the WGCs, it was Matsuyama in 2017).

Ben Walton
Ancer struggled some on Sunday while playing in the final threesome in his Masters debut, but still recorded a top-15 finish.

Clearly, there is a long way to go before this global youth revolution manifests as anything more than a brief flash. At the U.S. Open and PGA Championship, unlike the Masters, the names of the young internationals were largely missing from the top of the leader board. It would be easy to overstate the significance of the “Green Wave” before they’ve won the world’s biggest events.

Still, it’s massive that so many of them came so close at Augusta. It seems to prove that we’re seeing the results of golf taking hold in regions of the world outside of the traditional hotspots. Sure, Australia and South Africa have longer traditions, so players like Cam Smith aren’t quite as novel, but from South Korea to Mexico to South America to Taiwan to China, the seeds that have been sown by former stars, by the PGA Tour, and by general investment on the national and private level, are bearing fruit in the Green Wave. We’re still in the early days, but that group is beginning to issue tentative challenges to the longstanding U.S./Europe duopoly. And while it’s remarkable that it has already produced such a cadre of talent that a half dozen could compete for the Masters title in 2020, the broader significance is that it foreshadows an even more diverse future at the top levels of professional golf. Once a process like this is set in motion, it’s not going to stop.

JD Cuban
Im got an first-hand look at how Dustin Johnson went about winning a major, and experience that is bound to help the emerging Korean golfer down the road.

It goes without saying that the U.S. and Europe won’t be resting on their laurels either, and wresting control of the sport from the traditional powers will not happen anytime soon. But the effects of the Green Wave will continue to be felt, there will be greater breakthroughs, and one of the happier side effects—at least for fans like me—is that we’re going to be seeing a lot more Presidents Cups like 2019 than all the lopsided drubbings that came before.

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By John Feinstein
As Dustin Johnson steadily worked his way around Augusta National Golf Club Sunday on his way to a five-shot Masters victory, CBS’s telecast was only occasionally interrupted for commercials. The Masters has a handful of corporate sponsors, one of which is the high-end car dealer Mercedes-Benz. And during the afternoon, Mercedes ran an ad featuring one golfer: Rickie Fowler.

Johnson may be the No. 1 player in the world by a wide margin, and Bryson DeChambeau may be the most talked-about player in the game right now, but no one not named Tiger Woods can touch Fowler when it comes to endorsements. Corporate America has loved Fowler since he first turned pro in 2009, and it still does. Yet something tells me Fowler would almost certainly give up most, if not all of those sponsorships, to win one major.

On Sunday, while Johnson and the other leaders were deciding the tournament on the back nine, Fowler was on the front nine, along with other players who had finished 54 holes near the bottom of the leader board. He shot a steady two-under-par 70 that allowed him to move from a tie for 44th place to a tie for 29th—17 shots behind Johnson’s winning score of 20-under-par 268.

And so, Fowler’s 11th full year on tour ended without a major victory—again.

Fowler has contended in majors on a number of occasions, finishing alone in second place or tied three times, finishing third once and in the top 10 in 11 of his 43 starts. He turns 32 next month with time still to win one, if not more, before his career is done. Phil Mickelson was 33 when he won his first major, the 2004 Masters. Ben Hogan was 34 before he won his first major, the 1946 PGA Championship.

There is a difference between the two Hall-of-Famers and Fowler: Mickelson had won 22 times on the PGA Tour before his breakthrough win at Augusta; Hogan had won 30 times when he beat Ed Oliver, 6 and 4, to win the PGA. To date, Fowler has won five times on the PGA Tour, most recently in 2019 at the Waste Management Phoenix Open.

Like most of the country and the world, Fowler had a 2020 he would just as soon forget. After starting the year with a T-5 at the Sentry Tournament of Champions in Maui and a T-10 at the American Express in Palm Springs, he didn’t have another top 10. His highest finish since the PGA Tour’s return to play after a three-month stoppage due to the COVID pandemic came in July with a T-12 in Detroit, which had the benefit of keeping one of his sponsors, Rocket Mortgage, relatively happy.

Fowler has missed five cuts since the restart—including at the PGA Championship where he went to tap in a 10-inch putt at the sixth hole on Friday and shockingly almost whiffed, his putter touching the ground and then nudging the ball perhaps an inch. That mistake caused him to miss the cut—by a shot.

A lot of players have struggled since golf began again in June without fans. The case can be made that Fowler feeds off the support of those watching from outside the ropes as much as any player because he is as popular as any player not named Woods or Phil Mickelson.

Photo by Chris Condon/PGA Tour/Getty Images
The biggest win of Fowler’s career remains the 2015 Players Championship.

There are good reasons for this. Fowler’s looks are certainly a factor. In one of his commercials, a woman giving him a lie-detector test makes reference to his “beautiful face.” Fowler has a matinee-idol vibe and a quick smile. He also defines cool—a former dirt bike racer who arrived on tour wearing his cap backwards so often that the look became “a look” with kids who follow golf.

One of the first times Fowler was brought to the interview room at the Masters, he arrived with his cap on backwards. The Augusta member assigned to moderate the interview reached over and turned the cap around. A day later, Fowler was back. This time, he had the bill of his cap up facing front and he made a point of adjusting it so everyone in the media could see that he was very definitely following Augusta National protocol.

There’s also this: EVERYONE likes Fowler. Players like him, the media likes him, fans young and old like him, heck even your grandmother who doesn’t watch golf likes him. He’s the old cliché: women want to be with him, men want to be like him. He is a genuinely nice guy. That’s why his list of corporate sponsors is considerably longer than his list of tour victories.

Fowler arrived on tour with the word “star” practically written across his forehead. In the fall of 2009, shortly after leaving Oklahoma State, he finished T-7 and T-2 in his first two starts as a pro, the second a three-way playoff loss to Troy Matteson at the Frys.com Open. A few months later, he finished second in Phoenix. He played well enough that year, at the age of 21, to be a captain’s pick for Corey Pavin’s U.S. Ryder Cup team.

“It was a great pick,” Davis Love III, a vice-captain for that 2010 team said. “He was great in the team room, a guy who helped everyone relax and then he played great in the singles.”

Fowler rallied in his match with Edoardo Molinari, birdieing the last four holes to come from 3 down and pull out what, at the time, seemed like a crucial halve for the U.S.

Clearly, this was a rising young player. He won for the first time in 2012—still only 23—when he beat Rory McIlroy and D.A. Points in a playoff at Quail Hollow in Charlotte. The endorsements continued to come; the wins didn’t.

JD Cuban
Fowler’s T-29 finish at the Masters was his best showing in 2020’s three major championships.

Fowler has never wanted to be one of those guys who made millions off his name, charm and looks and not off his golf. In 2014, he hired Butch Harmon as his teacher, and his game took off. He finished in the top five in all four majors that year—he had one top five in a major previously—when he finished T-5 Masters, T-2 at the U.S. Open, T-2 at the Open Championship and third, after a back nine duel with McIlroy and Mickelson, at the PGA.

He had arrived … almost

When he came from behind late to win the Players Championship the following May, it seemed he had taken another step forward, that the elusive first major victory wasn’t far off.

Five years—and 22 majors appearances later—he’s no closer. In fact, he is trending in the wrong direction. While he did finish second to Patrick Reed at the Masters in 2018 and was T-6 in 2019 in Ireland when Shane Lowry won the Open Championship, his best post-COVID major finish this year was Sunday’s T-29.

For two days, Fowler hung on the fringes of contention. He shot 70-70 and trailed the quintet of leaders by five shots going into Saturday afternoon’s third round. He was paired with Woods and Billy Horschel, his Walker Cup partner from years ago. A good pairing for a crucial round.

But on moving day, Fowler moved—backwards. He shot a three-over-par 75 that dropped him to a tie for 44th place among the 60 players who made the cut. His only TV appearances on Sunday were in the Mercedes commercials.

Golf is different than other sports. Players peaking in their 30s or even playing close to their best well into their 40s isn’t unusual. Fowler, whose World Ranking now sits at 48th after starting the year at 23rd, has never been one to pout or blame the media or the golf gods for his failures.

But when he tees it up at Augusta next April, bill of his cap pointing forward, hair shorter, a married man, he will be a long way from the long-haired kid with the telegenic smile who charmed the golf world when he first showed up more than 11 years ago.

Fowler still has a lot of golf left to play. He and his legions of fans and corporate sponsors can only hope The Moment he has pursued for a long while now, will arrive sooner rather than later.

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By Daniel Rapaport
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The writer’s notebook is a bit of a romantic notion. At least it is for this millennial. Because at every tournament except the Masters, the only notes I take are in the Notes app on my iPhone. Augusta National, however, does not permit those godforsaken devices outside its media centre. So for one week a year, the romantic notion becomes a reality: pen and paper, baby. The old-fashioned way.

What follows are the scribbles from that notebook, which contain general musings and observations on the 2020 Masters Tournament. Please, do enjoy.

1. The last major championship before this one felt so … divisive. Bryson DeChambeau bludgeoned his way to a U.S. Open. Yes, I know, he also chipped and putted well, but the days after were spent debating the future of golf. It was tiring, that conversation. It still is. And distance debate aside, DeChambeau himself is a bit of an enigma. He’s honest and he’s smart, but on the golf course he veers toward slow and petulant. Some people love him, and some people very much do not love him. He’s polarizing.

Dustin Johnson’s victory, by contrast, was a breath of fresh air. Among his peers, DJ is not only admired for his talent—he’s genuinely liked. He’s kind and he’s friendly, not the type to gossip or say nasty things about other people, even under his breath. A stand-up guy. That earnestness also comes off to fans and media, who seemed to share a general consensus that DJ deserved another major championship. Too good a player to finish his career with just one, too good a guy to suffer through heartbreak after heartbreak.

It got dicey for a minute there on Sunday, when he bogeyed four and five and the four-shot lead shrunk to one. The golf world’s collective heart rate increased. Not again. Come on, DJ. He didn’t make a bogey the rest of the way, eventually cruising to a five-shot victory. Thoroughly deserved, and universally approved. For one night, at least, the golf universe can agree on something.

Ben Walton
Johnson proud slips into his green jacket on Sunday.

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2. While the tournament concluded with a satisfying feel, it also holds true that there was a tangible lack of buzz at Augusta year, particularly during the final round. No anonymous roars echoing from Amen Corner, leaving the crowds and players to guess what just happened and who did it. Tee times pushed up early, keeping Sunday’s pressure at a lower boil for the leaders. The soft golf course, devoid of fire. The entire week felt somewhat casual.

The best illustration of this came on Friday morning. The threesome of Dustin Johnson, Patrick Cantlay and Rory McIlroy had just hit their approaches into the second hole. Two balls were on the green and one was in the bunker, and none of the players had any idea whose was whose. In normal years, at least a couple hundred people would be following that threesome, plus the group that always congregates on that upslope behind that green, and their reaction after each shot would make abundantly clear which was which. (It’s one of the best viewing spots on the course, because you can see the approaches on 2, the tee shot on 3, the approach into 7, the tee shot on 8, and the green on 9).

Rory McIlroy, always switched on, remarked on the strangeness of it all. I couldn’t hear his exact words, but it was something to the effect of: “We’re three of the top 10 players of the world, and we can’t even identify our balls.”

JD Cuban
Who said there were no patrons at Augusta. A few could be found on Saturday morning.

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3. Tiger Woods opened with a four-under 68 that really should have been a bit lower. But his chances of winning a sixth Masters may have died before he struck his first tee shot.

Allow me to explain. Woods still has the game to win majors. By that I mean: He can still hit all the shots. Watch him on the range, or in a practice round (when it’s warm out). He’ll even throw in little spurts like the one on Sunday, when he played Augusta’s last six holes in five-under for the first time ever. The raw materials are there.

But having the raw materials isn’t enough. So much needs to go right for Woods to win these days. The course needs to be right. He needs to be on the right side of the draw. He needs to have four good body days in a row, which is far from a guarantee. And he simply cannot afford to have a disruption like the thunderstorm that delayed play on Thursday morning. With the shortage of daylight in mid-November, that three-hour delay meant Woods was going to have to play more than 18 holes on Saturday. The way it worked out timing-wise was awful: He had roughly an hour break between the last eight holes of his second round and the first hole of his third round—too much time to keep the foot on the gas, not enough time to do a full reset and restart the multi-hour process he needs to warm his body up.

Woods emerged from the clubhouse looking stiff as an old rusty pogo stick, and that was that.

Ben Walton
There was no hiding Tiger’s frustration on Sunday.

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4. Woods played one of the strangest and, I’d argue, most poignant nine holes you’ll ever see on Sunday afternoon. He made a septuple-bogey 10 on the 12th hole, dumping three balls in the water and looking patently miserable doing so. It was the worst score on any hole in his career as a professional golfer. He then birdied five of his next six holes for no reason other than his otherworldly grit.

Grit—it’s a funny word. McIlroy said this week he thinks it’s the one thing all successful people share. In an attempt to define the word, he offered an impressive plate of synonyms: persistence, perseverance, doggedness. None quite did the trick because grit is one of those things where you just kind of know it when you see it. We saw it from Tiger Woods on Sunday, and it’s just as big a part of his legacy as his iron play or his putting stroke.

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5. Speaking of McIlroy—leave your Rory takes at the door, because we’ve heard them all: He tries too hard. No, wait, he doesn’t try hard enough. He plays too aggressively. No, actually, he doesn’t play aggressively enough. We have no idea which one of these is correct, and in all likelihood, neither does he. Sometimes a bad round, like the 75 he shot on Thursday/Friday, is just a bad round.

Anyways, our only thought on McIlroy for the week: Man, we need details on the pep talk Augusta National member/golf power broker Jimmy Dunne gave him between his first and second rounds on Friday. “It was colourful,” is all Rory cared to share. What could Dunn possibly have said to motivate a guy with four major championships? Did he take after Rory’s old caddie, J.P. Fitzgerald, who famously asked his boss at the 2017 Open Championship: “You’re Rory McIlroy, what the f*** are you doing?” Did he make fun of his score, telling him that the old man shot 74 from the championship tees last Wednesday? Did he make fun of his haircut? The world may never know.

JD Cuban
McIlroy, and his fans, were left with what might have been after his first-round 75.

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6. Big-time shoutout to Cameron Smith, who became the first player in Masters history to shoot four rounds in the 60s … and he lost by five. Which brings us to the insanely low scoring this week. No, there is no asterisk next to Dustin Johnson’s victory. Yes, there is an asterisk next to the scoring record, whether you like it or not. Every time that record is brought up, we’ll think of just how soft the course was. I can already hear the announcers during the 2036 Masters: “John Futurestar is now within two of the all-time Masters scoring record of 20 under, set during that one-off November Masters played during the pandemic.”

Yes, this was an entirely different Augusta National that we likely will not see again; 4-irons were plugging on the greens all week. Balls that landed pin high to the back pin on the fifth hole stayed there, when in normal years they’d race into the bushes. Balls ripped back with spin on the third green. You could land a high cut into the right side of the 14th fairway, and it would stay in the fairway. Simply put, this wasn’t the Augusta we are all familiar with. That’s no fault of the club, of course. Weather is weather. But let’s not act like all 20-under weeks are created equal.

Jon Rahm summarised it nicely on Sunday: “I was talking with Patrick Reed and Sebastian [Muñoz] walking down the last few holes saying, it’s like you almost have to hit the delete button from what you learned this week because it’s never, ever going to play like that again.”

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7. Despite all this, in some odd ways the course still played tough. The back-nine par 5s didn’t get made into a total mockery, which was the fear going in. We shuddered at the thought of DeChambeau hitting wedges into them, wondered how long they’d have to extend these holes to make guys hit long irons and woods, like the old days. Granted, both did play quite a bit under par, but nothing outrageous. The 13th averaged 4.61, significantly higher than the all-time low of 4.546 in 2015. And 15 averaged 4.60, almost a full tenth of a shot higher than the record-low 1991 average. For the most part, they functioned as risk-reward holes. Which, to some extent, is the idea. If you hit a bad tee shot, like Bryson did on 13 on Thursday, you could make a double. If you missed the fairway—especially near the pine straw right of 13, because there are more trees and thicker rough than there used to be—chances are, you were laying up. DJ laid up on both 13 and 15 in the final round. Rahm laid up on 15 from the middle of the fairway on Saturday morning.

This isn’t to say the reckoning isn’t coming, that something is eventually going to have to change. But this week, the back-nine par 5s held up just fine. It wasn’t some sort of pitch-and-putt … though Bryson did hit 9-iron into 13 and make eagle on Sunday, just to remind us the distance debate isn’t going anywhere.

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8. There were no patrons this week, but there was a Peyton. Manning, a new-ish Augusta member, was ubiquitous. By all accounts, a genuinely very friendly guy who made no person feel insignificant. Very approachable. He followed Tiger and effortlessly chatted with a host of fellow green jackets, clearly comfortable in his surrounds. By the way: Most of the members weren’t wearing the green jackets this year because, at least in theory, almost everyone watching the golf was an Augusta member. In reality, that wasn’t the case. There were media, and security, and volunteers. The way you could identify the lucky few: their belts. Green belts, with the Augusta National logo, without the word “Masters.”

Anyway, two things on Peyton. One, he’s a really big dude with rather narrow shoulders. The shoulders are really much narrower than you’re expecting. Two, I heard him say the word audible (in a non-football context) and it was, without exaggeration, the coolest thing ever.

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Peyton Manning (far right) took in the tournament this week as one of Augusta National’s newest members.

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9. There’s so much talk about how Augusta National is the ultimate local knowledge course—about how you need to play it a number of times before you really understand it. That’s why, the conventional wisdom goes, no first-time Masters participant has won the green jacket since 1979. When something gets repeated that often, I always wonder if it’s a media creation and complete bollocks. But then I heard Shane Lowry’s response to a question about making the cut:

“I want to get two more rounds here just to learn. Just to keep learning how to play this place because I don’t have it figured out yet. I’m going to get a few more chances to come back here. This weekend is all about learning for me, and hopefully I can shoot a couple of good scores along the way.”

OK, noted. Local knowledge at Augusta is a very real thing.

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10. The Masters is about so much more than the 90-odd players who tee it up. It’s more than the golf course and the members. So much of what makes the tournament the tournament are the unsung heroes, the people who work at Augusta National for one week a year. The shuttle drivers, always waiting with a smile on their face to transport you to and from the media centre. The baristas, who commit your latte to memory after the first time you order it. The janitors, who politely ask whether you’re finished with your water bottle. The golf course maintenance workers, who rush 15 deep as soon as the last group is off a hole to get it ready for the following day. The sheer people power, the number of folks grinding their tail off to make the event tick, is astounding, and they’re the friendliest bunch you’ll ever come across.

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11. The third-round pairing of John Augenstein, Rory McIlroy and Bernhard Langer was everything that’s beautiful about Augusta National. A college kid, a global superstar and a 63-year-old whose game doesn’t seem to age, all posting the same score after 36 holes of the world’s most famous golf tournament. How can you not be romantic about the Masters?

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12. While in the end McIlroy beat Langer by six, the elder statesman got the better of DeChambeau on Sunday, besting golf’s brute force 71 to 73. Quite literally, the shortest-hitting guy in the field (who made the cut) beat the longest guy in the field. DeChambeau, to his credit took the whole thing in stride: “Definitely I still look up to him. Even though I’m bombing it by him, he’s still playing better than me. It doesn’t matter. That’s the cool part about the game of golf—you can shoot a score whatever way you want, and he’s still able to do it at his age that way, which is pretty impressive.” Couldn’t have said it better ourselves.

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Langer now holds the record as the oldest golfer to make the cut at the Masters.

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13. Augusta National’s history of inclusion is ugly. Really ugly. We’ve known this, and it finally seems like the club has decided to try to rectify it. In the last decade, Augusta has emerged as a true force for good in the game. They helped start the Asia-Pacific and Latin American Amateur Championships and gave the winners an exemption into the Masters. They created the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, a monumental gesture for a club that didn’t admit its first female member until 2012. This year, they made three announcements that continued their outreach: adding Lee Elder as an honorary started for 2021; pledging to fully fund the women’s golf program at Paine College, a local HBCU; and, along with their sponsors, spending $10 million to redevelop two struggling neighbourhoods in Augusta. Club chairman Fred Ridley deserves a ton of credit for overseeing a significant transformation in the club’s posture.

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14. It doesn’t get the love of Amen Corner of the famous finishing holes, but for my money, No. 7 is the most underrated hole at Augusta and maybe my favorite on the course. The tee box is nestled way back in a pocket behind the sixth green, creating a chute-like claustrophobia that makes the drive uncomfortable. Trees frame both sides of the fairway. The hole looks straight as an arrow, but the fairway slopes from left to right and you want to stay left to give yourself a flat lie. The green is maybe the narrowest on the course, so distance control is key, and long is dead. Plus, the visual of hitting the severely uphill approach over steep-faced bunkers filled with bright-white sand—one of the better approach shots to watch in all of golf.

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Johnson hits a tee shot on the par-4 seventh.

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15. I’m not sure who the actual mayor of Augusta is—the Google machine tells me it’s Hardie Davis Jr.—but Fred Couples sure seems like he is. He swaggers around the property, chatting with everyone within earshot and looking cool-as-can-be throughout it all. He’s Mr. Congeniality, and Woods likes playing practice rounds with him so much that he generally lets Couples chose the times and the other players in the group. If Tiger likes you like that, you know you’re doing something right.

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16. A note of condolence to Erik van Rooyen, the fashion king who played in his first Masters only to wake up Friday morning with an out-of-whack back and have to withdraw. It was the first time in 163 career starts that the South African had ever withdrawn from a tournament. At No. 52 in the world, he has some work to do to get back to the April Masters and wash away that disappointing debut. Here’s to hoping the golf gods step in here and grant van Rooyen some luck in the near future.

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17. That was an all-time lowkey top 10 from Corey Conners. The Canadian native shot 69 on Sunday to tie for 10th, and I’m not sure we saw a single shot of his on the broadcast all weekend. It brought to mind Chez Reavie’s T-3 at the 2019 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, another insanely under-the-radar performance. The good news: the prize money’s still the same, whether they showed every one of your swings or none at all. And the top 10 gets him an invite for 2021.

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18. Only 144 days until the next major championship, which is also the Masters. Until then …

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One last beauty shot from Augusta National and a November Masters.

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By Robin Barwick
A friend of Bernhard Langer’s won big on Sunday, having backed the 63-year-old Langer to finish higher up the 2020 Masters leaderboard than 50-year-old Phil Mickelson. It wasn’t even close in the end, as Germany’s Langer finished six shots better than Mickelson. Perhaps the haggle should have been more ambitious because Langer, the Masters champion of 1985 and 1993, even finished a shot better than the golfer many considered to be the pre-tournament favourite, Bryson DeChambeau.

The point is not to criticise Mickelson and DeChambeau – both major champions in their own right – but to emphasise Langer’s achievement at the 2020 Masters. First he set a new record as the oldest golfer ever to make the cut in the Masters, then he continued his rock-solid performance through 72 holes to finish on 285, three under par for the tournament, and in a share of 29th place.

Other golfers to finish below langer on the final leaderboard include Tiger Woods, Adam Scott, Paul Casey, Lee Westwood, Jordan Spieth, Bubba Watson and the list goes on for quite a while.

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“The most satisfying thing is to play 72 holes and finish under par,” reflects Langer, who posted his lowest Masters final score since he finished in a tie for fourth on the same number in 2004. “It is not easily done because the golf course has never played this long. The course is usually a little more firm when we play the Masters in April but this time around, in November, the golf course was really wet and I had to hit longer clubs into the greens than I have ever done.

“I would say that this year I have played some of my best golf, in terms of what I am capable of doing with the clubs I have to play into these greens.”

The clubs Langer took to play approach shots last week were considerably longer than those taken by a long hitter like DeChambeau, who was grouped with Langer for yesterday’s final round

“It is incredible to watch Bryson DeChambeau drive the ball,” adds Langer. “It is like a rocket is taking off. If we both hit good drives on the same hole, I am often playing a two hybrid into the green while he hits a pitching wedge. That is about the difference. To do this over 72 holes is such a disadvantage. To somehow get the ball around that golf course and to compete is quite a challenge but it is fun for me to watch these guys.

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“Let’s take the par-5 13th in the final round; I hit driver and couldn’t reach the green so I laid up with a four-iron, and then had 70 yards left to the pin. DeChambeau hit a driver and nine iron next to the hole and he holed the putt for an eagle. He drives his golf ball over trees and cuts off dog-legs.”

Despite this, Langer beat DeChambeau by two shots over 18 holes yesterday.

“Bryson wasn’t playing smart enough sometimes but he will improve his course management the more he plays the golf course,” adds Langer. “That’s how it goes at Augusta. Every time Bryson plays Augusta National he will learn from his mistakes and they will get stored in his memory bank. Often the best way to learn is from making mistakes.”

The golfer making the least mistakes last week in the Masters was Dustin Johnson, the new champion and who Langer identified as the man to beat after 36 holes of the tournament.

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“I talked to Dustin Johnson a couple of times on the driving range at Augusta and he seemed very relaxed yet also very focused,” says Langer. “He seemed to be in a good spot, not-overwhelmed by the occasion. He struck me as someone who has it together. Johnson does not get rattled very easily. His ball striking is also a great strength. He drives the ball extremely straight, he is one of the longest drivers and he hits a lot of good irons. He also putted fantastically well last week. That is a lethal combination.”

Bernhard Langer is a Mercedes-Benz Brand Ambassador. Mercedes-Benz is a Global Partner of The Masters. 

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Four days in Augusta is all it takes. Just ask Jack Nicklaus, or Tiger Woods, or Phil Mickelson, or even Sergio Garcia. Winning the Masters doesn’t just come with the green jacket and the lifetime dinner invite—it’s a stamp of approval on a career. Golf’s ultimate prize.

Dustin Johnson didn’t need to win the Masters to become a great golfer. According to the algorithms, he’s been the best player on the planet for 104 total weeks. He’s won $70 million playing this game. Played on four U.S. Ryder Cup teams. Won a major, and a FedEx Cup and, now, 24 events on the PGA Tour, where he has membership for life.

And yet, until Sunday, failure had been an annoyingly large part of the Dustin Johnson experience. The shortcomings. No matter how many Travelers Championships or RBC Canadian Opens or WGC-Bridgestone Invitationals you win, golfers of DJ’s caliber are always going to be judged by how they perform in four tournaments. Yes, he’d won one of them. But he’d also held the 54-hole lead in four others and wound up victorious none of those times—including just three months ago at the PGA Championship in San Francisco, where he was leapfrogged by a 23-year-old playing in just his second major.

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Johnson put himself in that position yet again on Saturday, his third-round 65 giving him a four-shot cushion as his head hit the pillow in his Augusta rental home. Sunday could have gone one of two ways. He could have blown a four-shot lead at Augusta National, setting off a hot-take storm and adding yet another chapter to a growingly tragic legacy. The other option was winning. And, in the process, slamming the door shut on that underachieving nonsense.

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Dustin Johnson’s long-awaited second major victory came in impressive fashion on Sunday.

He dominated. After a dicey start—we would say nervy, but it’s still not clear whether Johnson is capable of such a feeling—that saw his lead shrink to a single shot, Johnson carved his way through the last 13 holes, playing them in five under for a 68 and a five-shot victory. His four-day 20-under 268 total broke the all-time Masters scoring record of 270, previously shared by Woods and Jordan Spieth.

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“Obviously the first major’s the hardest,” Johnson said, “but I would say the second one is just as hard. They are all difficult to win. You know, it’s just hard to get it done in a major for some reason.

“I’ve had the lead a couple times and haven’t been able to finish it off, and so it is very nice to have a lead and then play well on Sunday and get the win. I couldn’t be more happy, and I think I look pretty good in green, too.”

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Johnson was at his swaggering best, reaching that gear where he makes this most complicated game look impossibly straightforward. This was yet another instance of Johnson hitting the open field and putting daylight between himself and the best players in the world.

He does that a lot. Johnson now has seven career victories of at least four shots. In August, he shot 30 under par to win the Northern Trust by 11. He’s won three tournaments in the last three months by a combined 19 shots. Since the PGA Tour’s return after the COVID hiatus, he’s has been by far the best player in the world. He’s now won or finished second in six of his last seven events—the lone outlier, a T-6 at the U.S. Open. And on the macro level, he’s been the game’s most consistent player over the past decade-plus, with a win in all 14 seasons he’s been on the PGA Tour.

“You can definitely tell with the way he was this week, kind of how he’s walking around, how he’s carrying himself that he knew he’s playing really well,” Patrick Reed said. “He knows he has full control over his golf ball and putting really well, and it showed.”

You needed only to see Johnson’s tears on the 18th green to know how important this victory was. This is a man known for being impervious to sentimentality, a man frequently mocked for his simple outlook on golf. See ball, hit ball. On Sunday afternoon, speaking with CBS’ Amanda Balionis, he couldn’t even get a word out.

“On the golf course, I’m pretty good at controlling my emotions, because I’m out playing golf,” Johnson said. “I had a tough time there speaking with Amanda on the putting green, just because it means so much to me. It means so much to my family, Paulina, the kids. They know it’s something that I’ve always been dreaming about and it’s why I work so hard.”

The majors. He dreams about winning majors, and now he’s won two of them. And don’t tell anyone, but he’s halfway to the career Grand Slam, suddenly a distinct possibility. No longer do we have to reconcile “DJ, the PGA Tour player” with “DJ at the majors.” That may seem silly—again, this was just one tournament among the 301 PGA Tour events he’s played in his career—but this is the means that many will judge a career. For better or worse.

Simply put, this was overdue. On Sunday, as Johnson sauntered onto the driving range to begin his warmup, he walked right past Rory McIlroy. They fist-bumped.

“Great playing,” McIlroy said. “Keep it going.”

He was talking about this week, but he just as well could have been talking about the last 14 years.

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By E. Michael Johnson
Dustin Johnson won the 2020 Masters in a record-breaking manner, claiming his first green jacket and the second major championship of his career with a dominating performance at Augusta National Golf Club.

Key to Johnson’s win—and breaking the Masters’ 72-hole scoring mark with a 20-under 268 total—was a display of consistency rarely, if ever, seen at Augusta National. For the four rounds Johnson had just four bogeys, two each in the second and final round, the fewest by any Masters champion in the 84-event history of the tournament. Johnson’s bogey avoidance bested the previous mark of five held by five players. Johnson also hit 60 of 72 greens in regulation for an 83.33 percent clip. Johnson tied the all-time best at the Masters set by Nolan Henke in 1991 and tied by Tiger Woods in 2001. The tour started keeping track of the stat in 1980.

Johnson’s irons are TaylorMade’s P730 muscleback blade irons with True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 shafts and Golf Pride’s Tour Velvet grips. And his wedges are TaylorMade’s Milled Grind 2 model with the same grips and KBS Hi-Rev 120 S Black shafts. Johnson stretched his lead to a comfortable five shots with back-to-back-to-back birdies on Nos. 13, 14 and 15 after using his wedges for deft approaches on 13 and 15 and sticking one close from 127 yards on 14 with a sand wedge.

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Johnson also used his length off the tee to his advantage on a soft Augusta National, averaging nearly 310 yards with his 10.5-degree TaylorMade SIM driver with a Fujikura Speeder 661 Evolution 2.0 X shaft. His putting also was on point as he bettered the field average in putts per green in regulation and only had one three-putt over 72 holes on Augusta National’s sweeping greens. Johnson’s putter is a TaylorMade Spider Tour IB putter with a SuperStroke Traxion Pistol GT 1.0 grip.

As for his TaylorMade TP5x ball, Johnson only uses balls with the number 1 on them. Given his World No. 1 ranking and performance at the Masters, no one is going to argue the appropriateness of that fact.

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What Dustin Johnson had in the bag at the Masters

Ball: TaylorMade TP5x
Driver: TaylorMade SIM (Fujikura Speeder 661 Evolution 2.0 X), 10.5 degrees
3-wood: TaylorMade SIM Max, 15 degrees
7-wood: TaylorMade SIM Max, 21 degrees
Irons (3-PW): TaylorMade P730
Wedges: TaylorMade Milled Grind 2 (52, 60 degrees)
Putter: TaylorMade Spider Tour IB

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In case you did, though, don’t worry. We’ve got you covered.

Shortly after the newly minted Masters champ emerged from the Butler Cabin ceremony, he made his way back to the 18th green for an interview with CBS’ Amanda Balionis. And it was there that he totally lost it. No, seriously.

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Johnson famously doesn’t display much emotion on the golf course and tapping in his par on the last hole for a five-shot win at Augusta National seemed to be more of the same. His caddie and brother, Austin, cried. His fiancée, Paulina Gretzky, cried. But Johnson remained stoic. Until this:

Winning the Masters is a dream come true for Dustin Johnson. pic.twitter.com/2gGJ9HuMSJ

— CBS Sports (@CBSSports) November 15, 2020

Wow. At that point, Balionis threw it back to Jim Nantz, who said, “Well, I think that’s one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen right there.”

Like us, we’re pretty sure Jim didn’t see that coming from DJ. But yeah, we agree. That was awesome.

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