\u201cI think Scott\u2019s doing a good job,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cI think your guess is as good as mine with what happens next year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Johnson, 41, has never seemed too worried about any of it, always eliciting a vibe that suggests he will deal with whatever comes.<\/p>\n
As it applies to his golf game, Johnson simply says his ability to drive the ball has been holding him back.<\/p>\n
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Dustin Johnson’s driver has let him down this year. | Bill Streicher-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m happy with my game, honestly,\u201d he said. \u201cNot very thrilled with my driver. Everything else feels really good. I\u2019m rolling it well, short game is good and obviously it\u2019s difficult around these greens. It\u2019s hard to judge the last few shots I hit, seemed really nice and that I hit better shots than where they ended up.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it\u2019s just tough. Everybody\u2019s dealing with it. The wind will be blowing and then all of a sudden all the way down a little bit, and that\u2019s the difference 10 or 15 yards out here and that\u2019s a big deal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dustin Johnson is signed for more years with LIV Golf\u2014if it continues<\/p>\n
Johnson\u2019s original LIV deal ended at the end of 2025 but he and the league announced a \u201cmulti-year\u201d extension in January. After winning 24 times on the PGA Tour, Johnson had three LIV victories in his first three years but none in either of the last two.<\/p>\n
This year, his best finish on LIV Golf is a tie for 10th in Singapore.<\/p>\n
On Friday, he hit just four of 14 fairways and he ranks 106th\u00a0in the field in strokes-gained off the tee. But his par-70 effort that included three birdies and three bogeys followed an opening-round 72 and got him in at 142, 2 over par.<\/p>\n
Perhaps not to the level he would prefer, but still not bad for someone who wasn\u2019t sure he\u2019d even be playing here until getting a call from the PGA of America on May 4.<\/p>\n
Johnson, as he did last year, wrote a letter to the PGA of America requesting the invite, and it keeps his major streak alive dating to the 2017 Masters, where he was the pre-tournament favorite but withdrew on the day of the first round due to a back injury suffered in his rental home. Johnson was No. 1 in the world at that point, part of his 135 weeks on top, a number that ranks fourth all time behind Tiger Woods, Greg Norman and Scottie Scheffler.<\/p>\n
A year prior, Johnson had won the U.S. Open at Oakmont, which came with a 10-year exemption through this year at Shinnecock. His 2020 Masters victory means a lifetime invite to Augusta National.<\/p>\n
Johnson has just two top-10s in majors since joining LIV Golf and missed three cuts last year. But he still believes he can compete with the best.<\/p>\n
Asked what he\u2019d do if there were no LIV next year, he said: \u201cYou have to ask me when it comes to that. I have no f—— idea right now. I\u2019ve got two more rounds to play. That is the only thing I\u2019m thinking about it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t look too far ahead. I\u2019ve got a lot of good golf in there. Feel great. Body feels good.\u201d<\/p>\n
And then it came back to that troublesome driver.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll it takes is one,\u201d he said. \u201cI know as crazy as that sounds, but it\u2019s like one swing where I feel like what I need to. And I feel like it\u2019s back, but I just haven\u2019t felt that yet. It\u2019s coming, though. I\u2019ve just got to keep hitting them until it comes.\u201d<\/p>\n
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