“DJ was cruising for a few holes, and he gets caught up on the right side there a little bit and I make, and all of a sudden you go from six behind on the ninth tee to two behind on the 11th tee,” McIlroy said. It only takes a small crack in the armor to open the door for the likes of McIlroy and Reed, a moment like what happened on the 10 th hole can turn a rout into a race quickly. Leading by six entering the final round Johnson began his day with back-to-back bogeys and closed with a 77 to tie for second place. His most recent Sunday swoon came in 2017 at another World Golf Championship in China. WGC-Mexico Championship: Articles, photos and videos DJ is 7-for-15 converting 54-hole leads/co-leads on Tour in his career.įull-field scores from the WGC-Mexico Championship If I can get myself in the fairway, I’m going to give myself a lot of opportunities to make birdie.”Īs insurmountable as Johnson’s advantage seems to be, and it is, if McIlroy and Reed needed a paradigm of hope they needed to look no farther than the record books. “I was still a little frustrated that I made the double bogey on 10, but I felt like I should have birdied 11 and 12,” he said. The resilient 34-year-old birdied his next two holes and was quickly cruising again and would add two more birdies before his day was done for the type of lead players dream about. Open when he three-putted from 12 feet on the 72 nd hole to finish second. Hit the tree in front of me and then it went to a weird position, and then back into a weird position.”īut then nobody deals with weird better than Johnson, who once lost a PGA Championship when he ground his club on the 72 nd hole in a bunker that was anything but a bunker and a U.S. “I just misjudged that a little bit, I didn’t think it was going to come out like it did. “It was a little bit of bad luck, a little bit of maybe wrong club from over there ,” said Johnson, who has rounds of 64-67-66 this week for a 16-under total. Like that, his lead was cut to just two shots. DJ hit three trees, needed a drop and was fortunate to two-putt from 50 feet for a double bogey-6. Johnson, who had been nearly flawless off the tee all week, nearly fanned his drive at the 10 th hole onto the Avenue del Conscripto. He’d gone 45 holes without anything worse than a par on his card and appeared poised to become the first player since Charles Howell III (2010 Greenbrier) to go bogey-free for an entire event. Johnson had stretched his already-significant lead to a half dozen shots just before the turn and appeared poised to continue a historically dominant performance. That nebulous notion was certainly proven true midway through Saturday’s third round. “Tomorrow I’m going to have to go out there and probably shoot something similar to what I shot the first day to have a chance.”īut then as McIlroy also explained, “it’s golf.” “He’s going to be very tough to beat,” McIlroy said.
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