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If Dustin Johnson confirmed up for his pre-Masters press convention on Tuesday afternoon and introduced he’d had sufficient of the golf grind and was retiring at age 34, he might stroll off into the Augusta sundown realizing his subsequent metaphorical cease could be the World Golf Corridor of Fame. He’s gained 20 occasions on the PGA Tour, a type of victories coming on the 2016 U.S. Open. He’s performed on 4 U.S. Ryder Cup groups and are available achingly near successful a pair extra majors. Sufficient mentioned.Assuming although that he doesn’t name it quits and tees it up Thursday at Augusta Nationwide for his ninth Masters look, the case will be made that the 34-year-old from Myrtle Seashore, S.C., is beneath as a lot stress as any of the 87 gamers within the subject this week, save maybe for Rory McIlroy who will probably be taking his fifth shot at finishing the profession Grand Slam.Why? As a result of there are Corridor of Famers and there are HALL OF FAMERS.Fred , Tom Kite, Davis Love III and Colin Montgomerie are all Corridor of Famers. The primary three gained sufficient occasions that their one main victory was sufficient to get them voted into St. Augustine. Montgomerie by no means gained a significant however his outstanding Ryder Cup document and dominance on the European Tour earned him sufficient votes to affix the elite.After which there are HALL OF FAMERS, gamers who accomplishments register with essentially the most informal golf followers. Nick Faldo, Seve Ballesteros, Raymond Floyd, Phil Mickelson and, sure by my watch, McIlroy come to thoughts for this group. (There are additionally some gamers for whom the time period Corridor of Famer—decrease case or in capitals—is insufficient. Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Ben Hogan, Walter Hagen, Gary Participant, Tom Watson, Arnold Palmer, Sam Snead and Byron Nelson are on this listing. All-time greats is extra prefer it.)The query for Johnson then, is can he get his unofficial Corridor of Fame plaque to succeed in capital letters. There’s nobody in golf who doesn’t imagine that he has the expertise to take action. He’s a type of uncommon gamers who, when at his finest, is just about unbeatable. His most up-to-date win, on the WGC-Mexico final month, was by 5 pictures over McIlroy—whose finest can be fairly good. Johnson is considered one of a really small handful of gamers who different gamers discuss in reverent tones of awe at occasions.Two years in the past, Johnson arrived at Augusta as near an amazing favourite as anybody had been because the Tiger Woods 1.zero Period ended. He had gained his final three begins—in Los Angeles, in Mexico and on the WGC-Match Play. The one shock in these three wins was that Jon Rahm had gamely taken him to the 18th gap within the match-play ultimate.Augusta Nationwide has at all times been a course that ought to match Johnson’s recreation, and but he’s by no means severely contended—though he completed T-Four in 2016 two months previous to his breakthrough U.S. Open win at Oakmont. Then, 48 hours earlier than the 2017 match started, got here the weird slip on the steps and his withdrawal the day earlier than the Masters was to start.Since then, Johnson has gained 5 occasions—a greater than respectable quantity—includi
