AUGUSTA, Ga. — The four words hung over Dustin Johnson even before his sometime buddy, Brooks Koepka, blurted them out in August: “He’s only won one.” One major. Most golfers, even most in the top 100 in the world, dream of winning one major. Johnson has been dogged by the well-founded belief he should have won more. He is 18 holes from doing it.
As Johnson walked off the 18th green at Augusta National, the whole place felt eerily sterile. There had been no fans, just a few onlookers, and therefore no roars and no sense of history.