Who’s better since the restart than Daniel Berger?

1.       Dustin Johnson, -1.11

Both statistically and by acclimation, Johnson has been the Tour’s superior player since the restart.

Although making only 13 starts, Johnson has won four times, those being the Travelers, the Northern Trust, the Tour Championship and the Masters.

As has previously been explained, the Tour Championship win comes with an asterisk. Not so his other victories, notably his Masters win by five strokes. The standard deviation of his four-round total measured 2.93 better than the field, making Johnson’s the fifth most dominant Masters win in history. The other four were Nicklaus in 1965, Floyd in 1976, Woods in 1997 and Palmer in 1964.

But Johnson was never better than at the Northern Trust, when he shot 254 to win by 11. That margin translated to 4.09 standard deviations superior to the four-round field average, one of the more dominating showings in recorded Tour history.

Johnson’s restart did not start off nearly as well. He missed the cut at the first event, the Schwab, and a month later also missed the cut at the Memorial. But those were his only two subpar performances. His worst finish in his other 13 starts was a tie for 17th at the RBC Heritage, and that was last June. Since tying for third at the PGA in August, he has not finished lower than 11th.