With an eagle on the first hole of the Playoff, Dustin Johnson (67 63 65) overtakes the Chilean Joaquin Niemann (64 65 66), the Indian Anirban Lahiri (66 65 64) in Boston and wins the “The Invitational”, fourth round of the 2022 of the LIV Series Golf.
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In the USA, on the course of The International Golf Club (par 70), the three players closed the 54 regular holes with a total of 195 (-15) strokes, but what made the difference in the play-off was a magic from the American.
Success in the individual competition, the first in his Arab Super League career, earned the former world number 1 $ 4 million. To which we must add another 750,000 for the exploit in the team competition, with Johnson (captain) who dragged the “4 Ages GC”, with Talor Gooch, Pat Perez and Patrick Reed, to the third consecutive seal.
“I wanted to finally get my first win here and now I can say I did it. I definitely played well and I am satisfied with what I did,” Johnson delighted. At his debut on the separatist circuit, the Australian Cameron Smith, second in the world ranking, ranked in 4th place with 196 (-14).
Same score also for the English Lee Westwood. Equipped 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 has finished in third place in the ranking of average distances.
Turning pro at the end of 2007, he has won 20 tournaments so far, and is currently the only player on the PGA Tour to have won at least one tournament each season. He also boasts four WGC titles, of which the second, won in 2015, after returning from a period away from the fields, for personal problems.
In fact, between 2009 and 2014, Dustin Johnson tested positive in three different drug tests, once for marijuana twice for cocaine. Following this, the PGA Tour did not issue any disciplinary measures, nor did it spread the news, but it was the player himself who decided to retire 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 at the 72nd hole, for having intentionally placed his club head in a bunker, not having recognized him because very ruined and in a passage area for spectators.
After pocketing the last putt at 18 thinking he was on par with Bubba Watson and Martin Kaymer, the latter graduating then winner in the subsequent play-off, he was informed of the two-stroke penalty that took him from first place equal to fifth.
. After other important major tournament finishes, including second place at the 2011 Open Championship and second place at the U.S. Open of 2015, where at the 72nd hole with 3 putts he gave the victory to Jordan Spieth, he finally manages to triumph, winning the U.S. 2016 Open. A few weeks later he won the WGC – Bridgestone Invitational, winning his eleventh career victory.
