Dustin Johnson inside the numbers at Sentry TOC

Of the top 10 longest drives in Dustin Johnson’s PGA TOUR career, he produced three of them last week in winning the Sentry Tournament of Champions. That includes his 430-yard tee shot at the par-4 12th Sunday that he nearly holed for an ace. Johnson now has 23 career drives of 400 yards or more — 13 of those have come at the Plantation Course at Kapalua. Seasons of success Johnson’s win Sunday means that he has won at least one PGA TOUR event in each of his first 11 seasons. Just six players in TOUR history have won an event in each of their first 10 seasons, and DJ is the only active player on that list. Short birdie putts Johnson’s average birdie putt made in winning by eight strokes was 4 feet, 10 inches. In the ShotLink era, he’s the only PGA TOUR winner to make more than 20 birdies and average less than 5 feet per birdie putt.

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