Understand what type of shots you need to hit most often, and working on them to improve your performance. ➤ Improve at the golf shot you need the most. DJ chose to work on wedges because of his prodigious distance off the tee, which meant he was often looking at a wedge approach. To be sure of yours, collect your own stats or use individual shot-related data capture technology like MyRoundPro. But real improvement comes when you target your weakness. ➤ Make your weakness your strength. As DJ admits, it is human nature to overlook the parts of the game you’re not so good at. Three things you can learn from Dustin Johnson’s journey to the top My win there took me into the top three in the world for the first time.” Before the final round of the 2016 US Open at Oakmont, I spent 75 minutes hitting wedges. “As my wedge performance improved, so did my results. People have made a lot of the natural ability I have, but everything I have achieved in golf has been down to hard work. It was probably correct then I doubt it is now. “A few years ago, my former coach Butch Harmon said every other golfer in the top 10 outworked me. There was no secret to it it was just repetition and hard work, hitting thousands of wedge shots. “I started working with launch monitor TrackMan on controlling distances. I did not find wedge practice exciting, so I rarely worked on them… or if I did, it was with no discipline. My Strokes Gained figure was 0.09, in other words right on the tour average. “My distance off the tee means I have an awful lot of wedge approaches… but I was fed up of having 80 yards in and leaving myself a 20ft putt.

At the end of the season, my team and I got together and focused on where I could improve. I think, looking back on it, I just got tired of being an OK golfer. “But at the end of 2015, something changed. I wasn’t achieving as much as I should have. But although I broke into the top 10 as early as 2011 and had some near misses at Majors, my game was largely treading water. I managed to win in my rookie year on the PGA Tour, a feat I have repeated every year apart from 2014. Lesson 1: Dustin Johnson on… Getting to the top Whether that means winning the club championship, achieving a single-figure handicap, breaking 80, 90 or even 100, there is a challenge out there that is within the scope of your ability. You may not play golf at the elite level that Ryder Cup-star Johnson plies his trade, but that does not mean you cannot follow his example and get to the top of your game. Here, with the help of his team, World No.1 DJ exclusively reveals the multi-faceted approach he used that allowed him to realise his potential and turn his career around. RELATED: WITB – Dustin Johnson’s clubs reviewed and tested Now, as the 2020 season draws to a close, Johnson has more than 100 weeks at the top of the ranking, with the FedExCup champion’s historic Masters victory (his second Major) taking him to 24 PGA Tour wins. RELATED: Putting coach Phil Kenyon saves you six shots per round Golf World Top 100: Best Golf Courses and Resorts.For the first time, every shot by every player in every round was available through streaming.Īnd now there's no golf at all, at least until the Masters. The cancellation brings an abrupt end to the most ambitious project ever by the PGA Tour. 'I think for us to keep playing on tour, we all - the tour players and people that are involved - need to get tested.' 'We need to shut it down then,' he said without hesitation. But he said it would only take one player or caddie to test positive for the virus. Rory McIlroy said it was a 'scary time' and that the tour made a step in the right direction by eliminating fans. The final event was the LPGA's first major of the year. In golf, the LPGA Tour postponed their next three tournaments - two with title sponsors based in South Korea, another in Japan - with plans to reschedule later in the year. Augusta National's only comment regarding the coronavirus was on March 4, when the club said it was in contact with government and health officials and at that point all its events remained on the calendar.

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