Rain Failed to Keeping Dustin Johnson from Winning

Aug. 30, 2011 - PRLog -- The Barclays, already reduced to 54 holes because of Hurricane Irene, would have reverted to a 36-hole tournament if the rain arrived early and kept the third round Saturday from finishing, making Matt Kuchar the winner.

As for such situation, the way Dustin Johnson began the final round of The Barclays, he figured the only thing that could keep him from winning with his irons was the rain.

"The way I got started, I was hoping that we were going to keep on playing," Johnson said.

And then it started raining.

Needing a good start, he opened with back-to-back birdies. In a bunker for the first time all week, he holed the 85-foot shot for eagle on No. 4 to take the lead with his irons. Even a wild tee shot on the par-5 fifth landed in trampled grass with a clear shot at the green.

The rain stopped. Johnson kept right on going.

He shot 29 on the front nine for the second straight day -- he played the front in 17-under par for the week -- to close with a 6-under 65 and win the opening FedEx Cup playoff event by two shots over Kuchar.

Johnson didn't take the lead for good until Kuchar, who won The Barclays a year ago on a different course, three-putted from long range just off the green on consecutive holes on the back nine to make bogeys. He closed with a 68.

Johnson, who moved to No. 4 in the world, finished at 19-under 194 for his first win of the year and fifth of his career. He became the first player with his Discount Golf Gifts since Tiger Woods to go straight from college and win in each of his first four years on the PGA Tour.

Johnson just didn't think it would take him until the first playoff event to hoist a trophy.
He became the first player since Phil Mickelson to http://www.discount-golf-gifts.com/goods-759-TaylorMade+R... win two 54-hole events. Mickelson won the rain-shortened BellSouth Classic in 2000 and 2005. Johnson previously won the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am in 2009 when the final round Sunday was washed out.

This one was different. Johnson knew Saturday was the final round, and he could only hope the round would be completed.

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