He's the 2007 winner of the Masters. Married. New father to a son named Will. Age 31. Says he's a normal guy from Iowa. (So will next year's Champions Dinner have cornbread, corn-on-the-cob, corn fritters and corn chips? And beef, for which Iowa is also known? Not to pick on Iowa. Georgia has enough of its own interesting food--and lore--to keep us humble.) Today's final round was an interesting mix of the wheels coming off for some players; the weather didn't seem as much a factor as Saturday, but it seemed everyone was trying to hold on to what he had. Tiger Woods seemed to be in the hunt for awhile, with a eagle on 13, but even he couldn't top of the leader board at the end of the day. Mainly his putter seemed to fail him.
Johnson's tournament score of 289 (one over par) was last posted by Jack Burke in 1956 and Sam Snead before him in 1954. The relatively high numbers this week can be blamed mainly, I'd say, on the weather. (Added to that the usual course difficulty.) Otherwise, why would so many of the world's best not make par, or lower?
Way to go, Zach Johnson. Your phone will be ringing off the hook from now on.
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