Drooling over Dustin Johnson 400-yard drives is so passé. We know he nukes the ball off the tee and is, arguably, the greatest driver of all time. Every week he tees it up we’re ready for it. The manic tweets about the latest bomb. The players’ reactions about how he plays a different game.
Dustin Johnson’s near ace on a 430-yard par-4 is your season-opening reminder that he’s not human
The No. 1 player in the world is running away at the Sentry Tournament of Champions and he’s doing it with bombs like this.
But this one was so ridiculous that it warrants extra love and to be put up in lights. Standing on the tee of the 433-yard 12th hole, DJ pulled that driver which is the envy of every person who plays golf, either professionally or as a weekend chop. This Kapalua Plantation Course yields a bunch of 400-yard drives. It’s built on the side of a Maui mountain and even some of the players who aren’t the biggest hitters in the game occasionally poke one 400.
No one ever does it quite like DJ, however, and on this 12th hole, he left himself a six-inch putt for eagle.
Walking down the fairway he told Jim “Bones” Mackay that he caught it a little thin. He was, perhaps — perhaps! — being facetious but you never know with DJ.
The tap-in eagle put him up a touchdown over the next-closest chaser, leading at 21-under. Hideki Matsuyama is currently 14-under as the final groups play the middle of the back nine in Maui.
DJ’s driver is probably the biggest weapon in the game. And that’s the reason he’s going to win the 2018 opener among a loaded field at this winners-only Sentry Tournament of Champions. The world No. 1 is only going to increase his margin in the world rankings with the victory and if he keeps hitting the driver like this, and there’s no reason to believe he’ll stop, then he’ll likely be there all year again in 2018.
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