OAKMONT, Pa. — It is a compliment that stings, the golf equivalent of being known for a great personality. Over the past decade, Dustin Johnson, Sergio García and Lee Westwood have taken turns wearing “the best golfer never to have won a major” label. They are a combined 0-for-170 in the four biggest professional tournaments. Could this be the week that one rewrites one of their scripts?
On Saturday at the halfway point of the 116th United States Open, Johnson, García and Westwood, who weathered a bogey binge in the middle of his round, had positioned themselves for another grasp (or is that gasp?