The Masters: How Dominant Was Dustin Johnson This Week?

It was an amazing, record-breaking performance by Dustin Johnson this week at the Masters. How dominant was he? We take a look.

Dustin Johnson claimed his second major championship title on Sunday, winning the Masters in dominating fashion after coming in as the favorite. It was a championship fitting for the man who is currently, without a doubt, the best player in the world.

Johnson not only won the Masters, he obliterated the field during his record-setting week. Let’s just look at how good DJ was this week.

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DJ set the record for lowest score ever at the Masters at 20-under par, topping the record of 18-under that was previously held by Tiger Woods (1997) and Jordan Spieth (2015). Johnson’s five-shot win was the largest margin of victory since Tiger’s 12-shot win in 1997.

In fact, over the last 40 years, only three times has a player won the Masters by at least five shots. Woods did it in 1997 and Nick Faldo amazingly won by five shots in 1996 after entering the final day trailing Greg Norman by six.

But the records were not only those set at Augusta National.

Johnson also tied the lowest score ever in any major championship, equaling the mark set by Henrik Stenson at the 2016 Open Championship. That was the year Stenson outdueled Phil Mickelson down the stretch to claim his only major championship title.

As we talked about earlier this week, Johnson seemed to be a forgotten man heading into this week. The talk was about many other players, but DJ seemed to be flying in somewhat under the radar, which is tough for the number one player in the world.

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All DJ did was continue his torrid play from the fall. Remember that he won the first FedEx Cup playoff event, the Northern Trust, by a whopping 11 shots while shooting 30-under par. He lost the second event, the BMW Championship, only after Jon Rahm sank a 60-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole. Then he won the Tour Championship, fending off a challenge from Xander Schauffele.

Johnson simply proved again, as he continues to do, that he is the best player in the world and a future Hall of Famer.

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