“I’ve still got to go out and play some really good golf”, Johnson said. The golfer known for his arching drives credits his putter for helping him win his second BMW Championship.
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Not that Johnson was thinking about his place among the elite as he recovered from a faltering start in the final round at Crooked Stick in Carmel.
Casey, with his second consecutive runner-up finish, snuck into the top five in the standings. “I enjoyed the M3”, said Johnson in a video from BMW Golfsport. I hold my head up high that it was a great fight.
Johnson, though, it at another level right now.
Johnson, who shot a course-record 63 in the second round, won his third PGA Tour title of the season – the first time in his career he’s won three titles in one season. Powerful off the tee, relentless with the putter, dialed with his wedges, there was no stopping him.
“I’ve got a lot of confidence in every part of my game, ” Johnson said.
His place in Atlanta in two weeks’ time, where the victor of the season long FedExCup will claim the $US10 million bonus, is now in doubt. He’s in the top five and controls his own destiny for the $10 million bonus at East Lake.
He is now at the mercy of past Ryder Cup experience and fellow players lobbying for him as Love makes three of his four captain’s picks on Monday.
“I’ve done basically everything I can do as far as schedule and playing, ” said Fowler, who left the Olympics to play the following week on the PGA Tour.
“It was nice to make a good birdie on four”.
USA Ryder Cup hopefuls Matt Kuchar and J.B. Holmes also finished at 12 under with Charl Schwartzel and Ryan Palmer. But Johnson has converted only 2-of-6 54-hole leads into wins, none since the 2013 HSBC Championship.
He took a tiny misstep with back-to-back bogeys on holes No. 2 and 3, allowing Casey to momentarily tie him with back-to-back birdies.
“My caddie said go 20 feet right, and I went right at it”, Berger said. “When he gets on his game maybe he’s the best ball-striker in golf, maybe the longest, and he showed it today”. By finishing in a tie for fourth, JB Holmes could have persuaded the captain that he has what it takes. Then I hit a shot – I was trying to hit a draw, I hit it too much, and if it doesn’t clip those trees I think it would have been in the fairway, even though it was a dogleg on that hole. Johnson never looked as though he was going to lose – no matter how well Casey played. “There’s 10 million good reasons to play aggressive at home”.
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Dustin Johnson secured his third win of 2016 on Sunday at the BMW Championship. Johnson struggled to get anything going early, but he caught fire on the back nine, setting himself up for a chance to earn his third win of the season. Johnson dazzled at the Crooked Stick Golf Club over the weekend.
