Dustin Johnson

Dustin Johnson: Biography in Details

Who is Dustin Johnson?

Dustin Johnson is an American professional golfer. He was the world’s number 1-ranked golfer in February 2017 and has played for PGA Tour.

What are the birth facts of Dustin Johnson?

This sportsman was born on June 22, 1984, in Columbia, America with the birth name Dustin Hunter Johnson. His ethnicity is Caucasian.

He was born to his father Scott Johnson, a former club pro, and his mother Kandee Jonson. He has a brother Austin and a sister, Laurie.

Dustin Johnson majored in sports management at Coastal Carolina University where he won the Monroe Invitational and the Northeast Amateur in 2007. Dustin is the first player after Tiger Wood to claim a title in the first seven seasons.

Dustin Johnson: Career and Professional Life

Early Career

This player engaged in his lifelong passion for playing golf since college. In 2007, he went pro and earned his place on the 2008 PGA Tour. Dustin won the Turning Stone Resort Championship at the end of his first season. Four months later, this golfer won his second event at the AT&T PebbleBeach National Pro-Am.

In the 2009 season, Dustin Johnson was ranked 15th on the PGA Tour money list.

2010/2011

In 2010, he eventually won the BMW Championship, which was a FedEx playoff event. The same year, Johnson finished ranked 4th on the PGA Tour money list.

In 2011, he took part in the Long Drive Contest for charity at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions. The same year, Johnson entered the final round of the WGC- Cadillac Championship finishing as runner-up behind Nick Watney. At the 2011 Open Championship in England, he earned his then-best finish in a Major Championship.

At a major championship, Johnson had been part of the final group and moved to his highest spot in the Official World Golf Ranking at the time.

In 2011, he won his fifth PGA Tour title at The Barclays which moved him from 19th to first in the FedEx Cup standings.  The win also took him to a career-high of 4th in the world rankings, the second-highest American.

Professional Life

In 2012, Dustin Johnson incurred a back injury at home and missed over two months of the 2012 season. Later, he returned to competition at the Memorial Tournament in Ohio and finished tied for the 19th, and won his sixth tour event.

In 2015, he returned to the tour at the ‘Farmer’s Insurance Open’ and led Johnson back inside the top 15 in the World Ranking.

After he missed another cut at The Honda Classic, he beat J. B. Holmes by one stroke to win the WGC-Cadillac Championship at Trump National Doral and his win earned him $1,570,000 and marked the first win for Johnson moving him to 7th in the world rankings.

Dustin Johnson confirmed that he would not be participating in the 2016 Summer Olympics. In September 2016 he won his third tournament of the year, the BMW Championship. In 2017, Dustin won more than three Tour titles in the same season of the first FedEx Cup playoff event, The Northern Trust. 

Dustin Johnson also moved up three spots to No. 1 on the official money list and moved up to No. 6 on the career money list. Johnson won the Sentry Tournament of Champions in 2018 becoming only the third player in the last 30 years to reach 17 PGA Tour wins before the age of 34.

2019/2020

Dustin Johnson won the RBC Canadian Open by three strokes after starting the final round in a four-way tie for the lead. This sportsman won his sixth European Tour title, winning the inaugural Saudi International on the European Tour in 2019. He played on the US team at the Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne Golf Club in December 2019.

This golfer would not be competing in the 2020 Summer Olympics due to his schedule.

Salary and Net Worth

According to Forbes, Dustin has a total winning of $16.6 million and Endorsements of $11 million.  Meanwhile, his estimated net worth is $50 million as of 2022.

He has a $4.95 million waterfall home in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

Is Dustin Johnson involved in any rumors and controversies?

Dustin Johnson was rumored about infidelity after his fiancee, Paulina, deleted all photos of the couple on her Instagram account. In 2014, he was suspended from the PGA Tour after testing positive for Cocaine.

Earlier in 2009, he tested positive for marijuana and in 2012 positive for cocaine. Johnson and socialite Yassie Safai were rumored to have struck up a relationship.

Body Measurements: Height, Weight

Dustin Johnson is 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 86 kg. He has blonde hair and hazel-blue eyes. The shoe size of this golfer is 13 US.

Social Media Profile

Dustin Johnson has over 267k followers on Facebook, 1.1 M followers on Instagram, and over 824.6k followers on Twitter.

He has his official website.

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