{"id":1926,"date":"2018-06-11T00:12:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T00:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebureaugh.com\/addons\/thegolferonline.com\/golfer\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2018-06-11T00:12:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T00:12:45","slug":"dustin-johnson-holes-out-from-171-yards-in-final-shot-of-victory-at-fedex-st-jude-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/blog\/2018\/06\/11\/dustin-johnson-holes-out-from-171-yards-in-final-shot-of-victory-at-fedex-st-jude-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Dustin Johnson holes out from 171 yards in final shot of victory at FedEx St. Jude Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">The tournament might already have been wrapped for Dustin Johnson, but that didn\u2019t stop him from putting a neat little bow on it with his final shot of the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">Holding a four-stroke lead over second-place finisher Adam Putnam, all Johnson had to do on the 18th hole was avoid catastrophe on a historical level. Instead, he holed out from 171 yards on his second shot to eagle and move to 19-under for the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">With the victory at TPC Southwind wrapped up, Johnson is now again the top player in the World Golf Rankings. The win is Johnson\u2019s second of the year and continued a season in which he\u2019s made the top 20 in all but one of the 10 official PGA Tour events he\u2019s entered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">\u201cI\u2019m glad it\u2019s over, for sure. What a cool way to end the day, to hole out that shot on 18,\u201d Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GOLFonCBS\/status\/1005932796773326848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said on CBS\u2019s broadcast<\/a>. \u201cObviously a lot of good things happened this week. I knew coming in this week I was swinging really well and I had a lot of confidence in the game. I played really well all week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">Indeed, a lot of good things did happen for Johnson. The 33-year-old was swinging a hot club all weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Baer, Yahoo Sports<\/p>\n<div class=\"auth-prov-logos D(tbc) Va(t) Pos(r) Mah(40px) Maw(70px)\">\n<div class=\"provider-logo Va(m) Pend(10px) Pos(a) Lh(25px)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"auth-prov-soc Mend(4px) Va(m) D(tbc) Mah(45px) Mah(40px)--sm Maw(650px) Start(80px) Pos(r) Lh(36px) Fz(12px)\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tournament might already have been wrapped for Dustin Johnson, but that didn\u2019t stop him from putting a neat little bow on it with his final shot of the weekend. Holding a four-stroke lead over second-place finisher Adam Putnam, all Johnson had to do on the 18th hole was avoid catastrophe on a historical level. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-european-golf","8":"category-featured","9":"category-golf-news"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}