Dustin Johnson has been on a tear and it continued Friday as the U.S. Open champ grabbed a share of the lead with Luke List at the RBC Canadian Open at Glen Abbey Golf Club in Oakville, Ontario.
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“I really don’t know what happened the first four holes”, Johnson told reporters.
“I didn’t really expect it coming in here because there are so many great players in this field”, said Turner, who finished five strokes ahead of his nearest competitor.
“I didn’t feel like I hit bad shots”, he said. “I’ve just got to try and enjoy myself first more so than what I have the last two days”. “But other than that, I thought I played really, really nicely all day long”.
“I like this golf course”, said Johnson, ranked second in the world. I think I’m in a good spot. I like it off the tee. If we’re going to have wind conditions like this and the course is tough, they are not going to move too far. “And then they get really nervous, because nobody wants to hit anybody”. “You play good golf and you’re going to lose matches, and that’s the way it goes”, Lewis said.
“I’ve been working on my mindset lately, trying to get in the right frame of mind for the rest of the year”, he said. With my length, I tried to get it in play off the tee and have a smart iron into the par 5s.
Canadian amateur Jared du Toit, Jon Rahm, Chesson Hadley and Kelly Kraft were each a shot back.
Johnson double bogeyed the 14th hole, but he recovered with a birdie on the 16th and an eagle on the 18th, while List had an unblemished round with six birdies as both finished six-under-par. “We’re still in this thing, and we’ve just got to take care of business tomorrow”. He would later be caught by List, who had his own topsy-turvy day – reaching 8 under after a pair of opening birdies, falling back to 5 under after a trio of back-nine bogeys and then birdies on the closing par-5s boosting him back up to 7 under.
New England Amateur – James Turner (Bass Rocks GC), an 18-year-old from Gloucester, posted a four-round score of 7-under-par 273, which included a final round 5-under 65, to capture the New England Amateur Championship at Hartford Golf Club.
Smith is now 167th on the FedEx Cup standings and with only a handful of events remaining before the end of the season, he needs a number of good performances if he is to sneak into the top 125 and retain his full status.
Top-ranked defending champion Jason Day was in the group at 69.
If you miss the fairway, youre pretty much done, theres no chance of keeping it on the green, Day said. “Just come out here, keep doing what I’m doing”. Just had to hit a good one shot.
An eagle on the iconic 18th hole propelled Johnson into a tie for the lead. He played alongside du Toit.
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Pat Fletcher, born in England, was the last Canadian victor in 1954 at Point Grey in Vancouver, British Columbia.
