OUR 1653 RD ISSUE Vol. 32, No. 41 R O C H E S T E R Monday, November 16, 2020 Not Good Enough: Dustin Johnson Wins 2020 Smith Runner-Up Despite Masters in Record Fashion Four Rounds in 60s BY BILL PENNINGTON AUGUSTA, Ga. — For 10 years, Dustin Johnson’s chase for career-defining, major cham- pionship titles was tinged with ruthless angst, misfortune and calamitous setbacks. He grounded a club in an un- observed bunker at the 2010 P.G.A. Championship to earn a heartless penalty that bounced him from a playoff for the victo- ry. Five years later, at the United States Open, a three-putt on the final hole cost him anoth- Dustin Johnson became the first golfer to reach 20-under at the Masters. er major championship playoff (Doug Mills/The New York Times) berth. Riding a hot streak that made him the prohibitive favor- U.S. Open, he was saddled with through achievement he has Cameron Smith, right, watches his tee shot o the seventh hole during the ite at the Masters three years the ignominy of a penalty as- long sought with a runaway, final round. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP) ago, Johnson slipped on the sessed after his celebration on five-stroke victory at the 2020 stairs at his rental house on the the final hole. Masters. It is a championship BY PAUL NEWBERRY down par off the front of the tournament’s eve and withdrew But on Sunday, with verve that separates Johnson, one AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Cam- green at the 72nd hole, giving with a back injury. and nerve, Johnson comfortably of golf’s most talented players, eron Smith pulled off a feat that him a 3-under 69 for the final Even as he won the 2016 secured the validating break- Record Fashion — PAGE 5 had never been done before at round. the Masters. On the heels of shooting 67, All it got him was a silver 68 and 69 over the first three medal. rounds, Smith finished with a 15- Johnson Paints a By-the- Until Sunday, no player had under total that would’ve been ever posted four straight rounds good enough to win most years. in the 60s. Not in 2020. Numbers Masters-Piece Smith did it with an up-and- Not Good Enough — PAGE 14 BY JIM LITKE (AP) — Breaking the scoring record was on his mind, be- Tiger Woods Faced cause, of course it was. Dustin Johnson wanted it, too. He just Disaster at the Masters. He hadn’t bothered to look the num- ber up. Stuck Through It Anyway. “It was 19 (under) before?” Johnson asked a Masters official to his right in the interview room late Sunday afternoon. They had on identical green jackets. Told it was 18 under (shared by Tiger Woods and Jordan Spieth), Johnson flashed a shy Dustin Johnson shows off his green jacket after his victory Sunday. (AP Masters-Piece — PAGE 13 Photo/Matt Slocum) Masters Champion Wants Decade of Success Before Retirement Dustin Johnson admits his planned retirement is already on Tiger Woods reacted to a missed shot on the second hole of the final round his mind, but the new Masters of the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) champion wants much more Major glory before it arrives. BY ALAN BLINDER last act of a Sunday unlike any Johnson recovered from a AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger other in Woods’s quarter-centu- somewhat shaky start in the Woods had just birdied three ry around the Augusta National final round to cruise to a re- holes on Sunday at the Masters Golf Club: He shot 76, equal to cord-breaking five-shot victory when he stood at the tee box at his worst round at any Masters. at Augusta National, his winning No. 18. A few of the men sitting Yet that score was a far greater total of 20 under par eclipsing around the 17th green did not achievement than it, or his tie the previous tournament record bother to watch. for 38th place at one under par, of 18 under set by Tiger Woods This was no charge toward would suggest. in 1997 and equaled by Jordan Dustin Johnson walks across the Sarazen Bridge on the 15th hole during a sixth green jacket. 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