{"id":392971,"date":"2025-11-20T20:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/392971\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T20:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:04:13","slug":"dustin-johnson-blames-high-profile-split-for-2025-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/392971\/","title":{"rendered":"Dustin Johnson blames high-profile split for 2025 struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe curtain has come down on Dustin Johnson\u2019s forgettable 2025 season \u2013 and it looks like he took the breakup harder than expected\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Dustin Johnson is a winning machine. So this will hurt. <\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old has won 31 times in 18 years as a professional, including 22 PGA Tour titles, six World Golf Championships, three on LIV Golf, a Masters, and a US Open.<\/p>\n<p>But when he carded a round of 74 in Riyadh on Thursday to miss the cut at the PIF Saudi International \u2013 a tournament he won on two occasions when it was a DP World Tour event and held at Royal Greens \u2013 it brought an end to Johnson\u2019s 2025 and sealed his first winless season since 2014. <\/p>\n<p>His best result in 2025 was the LIV season finale in Indianapolis \u2013 where a 3rd-place finish saw him climb up to 14th in the overall standings \u2013 but it was also a year that saw him finish dead last at the stops in Hong Kong and the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about his season after the round, Johnson told <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/flushingitgolf\/status\/1991466884059877822\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Flushing It<\/a> that it was an \u201cup-and-down\u201d year, before honing in on the reasons. <\/p>\n<p>Notably, his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.todays-golfer.com\/news-and-events\/equipment-news\/taylormade-parts-ways-with-former-world-number-one-dustin-johnson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">high-profile breakup<\/a> with TaylorMade. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"876\" height=\"584\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/dustin-johnson-driver.jpg\" alt=\"Dustin Johnson has been using a Titleist GT2 driver in 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-274134\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Johnson and TaylorMade ended their professional relationship in February. The American had been using the brand\u2019s gear since he turned pro in 2007, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.todays-golfer.com\/equipment\/witb\/witb-dustin-johnson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">put a Titleist GT2 in the bag<\/a> after the split.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve really struggled with the driver \u2013 which is generally the best part of my game,\u201d he continued. \u201cSo obviously that puts a lot of pressure on the other parts of your game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe weeks I drive it well, I play well [and] I have a chance to win. But, as a whole, I\u2019ve just struggled with the driver, and I\u2019m just finding something that I get comfortable with. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have days where I drive it really well, but I\u2019m having trouble finding a driver that matches up with the rest of the game, [so] I\u2019m hitting irons really, really well and not driving it that great, or I\u2019m hitting the driver good and I\u2019m not hitting irons as good. I\u2019m just trying to get that perfect match, which is what everybody wants. That\u2019s when I play my best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And that is what\u2019s giving him hope for next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like the game\u2019s been in good form,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cI feel good about it going into 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The curtain has come down on Dustin Johnson\u2019s forgettable 2025 season \u2013 and it looks like he took&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":392972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-392971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115583822792231462","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}