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[PGA TOUR]
JOHNSON BREAKS SCORING RECORD IN MASTERS WIN
Blows away field for 24th PGA TOUR win, second major title
마스터스 대회 우승과 함께 스코어 기록을 세운 더스틴 존슨
PGA 투어 통산 24승, 두 번째 메이저 타이틀
UGUSTA, Ga. – All week In a game obsessed with youth, Sungjae Im and Cameron Smith
it wasn’t just the Masters, Johnson, 36, is just coming into shot 69 to tie for second at 15 under.
Ait was the stripped-down his prime, a reminder that great Johnson hugged his brother/
acoustic version of the Masters. You careers are revealed over decades, caddie Austin on the 18th green,
could hear the biophany of bird life not social media hot takes. After and Austin started crying first.
chirping, unseen golf carts motoring, carrying a four-shot lead over three They grew up an hour away, close
the train whistles coming in on the players into Sunday, Johnson, enough to know all about Augusta
breeze. The only other audio was whose languid strut and taciturn National but not close enough to
the regular thwack of a golf shot and nature recall an Old West cowboy, actually play it.
the hissing vapor trail of a ball flying started slowly but steadied himself “Well, I proved that I can get it done
through the air. to shoot 68 and win by five. on Sunday with the lead at a major,
The clubs did almost all the talking. His 20-under total breaks the especially in tough conditions,”
It was a Dustin Johnson kind of Masters record of 18, shared by said Johnson, who was overcome
week. Tiger Woods and Jordan Spieth. with emotion and struggled to
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