Johnson Makes The Toughest Test Look Easy

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Even for a player of Dustin Johnson's immense ability, the Dell Technologies Match Play was always going to be the toughest for him to capture all four of the World Golf Championships. Tanihara hit two marvelous shots on the 13th and 14th holes to square his match against Johnson and was the first player to take him to the 18th hole, where Johnson had to make an 8-foot par putt to keep the match from going extra holes. Jon Rahm also made Johnson's heart beat a little faster — presumably, anyway — when he rallied from 5 down with 10 holes to play by taking on risky shots, pulling them off and sending the match to the 18th hole. Johnson again avoided overtime when Rahm, after a 382-yard drive that went to the back of the green, was rattled at the sound of a portable bathroom door slamming, flinched on a tough chip and left it above the hole with a sharp-breaking, next-to-impossible birdie putt to make. Bill Haas, for example, chipped in from 120 feet for par to halve the hole in a sudden-death playoff to advance out of his group, and he later got away with a bad drive at a key moment when his ball caromed off a spectator's head into the fairway. Johnson forgot about the tee shot he hooked into the hazard on No.

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