Dustin Johnson Biography

Fast Facts

• While playing collegiate golf at Coastal Carolina University, he majored in Sports Management
• As an amateur, he won the Monroe Invitational and the Northeast Amateur in 2007 and played on the winning 2007 Walker Cup and Palmer Cup teams
• Johnson is the first player since Tiger Woods to win at least once in each of his first seven seasons coming out of college
• In February 2017, Johnson won the Genesis Open by five strokes over Scott Brown and Thomas Pieters
• The win moved him to number one on in the Official World Golf rankings
• Prior to the 2017 Masters tournament, Johnson fell down a staircase in the Augusta home he was renting and suffered a back injury
• He withdrew from the event