Dustin Johnson not only won the 2020 Masters on Sunday, he did so in historic historic fashion. Ending with an under-under with in the round in, Johnson set a scoring record of 3-under of 3-holes, the lowest score in the history of the Masters at the Augusta Gusta National.
Under 20, Johnson also added the score for the lowest score in major championship history. It was a birdie putt missed at number 18 from the break.
DJ finished second with finishers Cameron Smith and Sungja Im winning the Masters by five strokes. That period is the longest at the Augusta Nationals since Tiger Woods won the 1997 Masters by 12 strokes.
“It’s a dream come true. As a kid, I always dreamed of being a Masters champion,” Jones said, trying to explain what victory means. “It’s hard to talk. It’s just incredible, obviously, you can tell.”
Johnson’s combined 268 was run by the 65’s on Thursday and Saturday, though it didn’t turn out without some trouble on Sunday. The DJ hit just two bogeys on his first 57 holes before a continuous load of os and bo in the round in. His lead fell in a single stroke.
However, Johnson immediately shut down the first nine for those wrong errors with a pair of birdies. He cruised the rest of the way, finishing second in 9th for the 11th consecutive round of his Understand record at Mas Gusta National. Its total brokerage this week was the lowest ever by a Masters winner.
Woods (1997) and Jordan Spieth (2015) previously held scoring records under the age of 18, although two rounds like Johnson’s in these two weeks were not 65 or less.
According to statistician Justin Rena, Johns also tied Woods (2001) and Nolan Hanke (1992) by scoring 60 greens in regulation, the most in the Masters in the last 35 years.
Sunday’s victory for Johnson marks his second major win since the 2019 Masters sprinter, the 2016 US Open. He now wins 24 of his career on the PGA Tour.
Johnson is in the top 10 of the last five Masters he has played. In all three majors held in this KVID-19 epidemiologically-altered calendar year it ends T6 or higher by 2020.
