{"id":251,"date":"2011-03-28T11:09:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T18:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/herbgould.com\/?p=251"},"modified":"2011-04-06T08:15:29","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T15:15:29","slug":"dustin-johnson-can-master-his-demons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/golf\/personalities\/251\/dustin-johnson-can-master-his-demons","title":{"rendered":"Dustin Johnson can Master his demons"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2011\/03\/Headshot-20046.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-253\" title=\"Headshot, 2004\" src=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2011\/03\/Headshot-20046-267x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>\n<p>There\u2019s always a chance that some obscure player\u2014the next Zach Johnson\u2014will come out of nowhere, VCU-like, in the Masters. And you can never discount a Kentucky blue blood like Phil Mickelson.<br \/>\nAnd even though he hasn\u2019t shown much lately, there\u2019s something about Tiger Woods in the Georgia pines. My guess is that when he breaks out of his extended slump, it will be on a big stage, because that\u2019s what gets his juices flowing.<br \/>\nBut if there\u2019s an interesting pick to click at Augusta this year, it just might be Dustin Johnson. He\u2019s &#8220;stupid long,\u2019\u2019 as Tiger mentioned at Pebble Beach last June. And he\u2019s unflappable enough to shake off last year\u2019s two major disasters\u2014in the U.S. Open at Pebble and in the PGA at Whistling Straits.<br \/>\nI covered both of those tournaments. After Johnson fell apart in his final round at Pebble, I wondered if that cloud would hang over his head. But he proved at the PGA that he\u2019s not one to let setbacks linger from a psychological standpoint.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019ll need to pay attention to details at Augusta. On the positive side, the sandtraps are well marked there. And he won\u2019t wilt under the pressure of Sunday at the Masters.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll need to bring his A Game, same as anybody else who wants to don the green jacket.\u00a0 In my mind, though, there\u2019s no question about whether Dustin Johnson has mastered the lessons of his past mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>******<\/p>\n<p>Read all of our great stories \u00a0by TheAPosition.com writers as we cover\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaposition.com\/partner\/the-masters\" target=\"_blank\">The Masters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s always a chance that some obscure player\u2014the next Zach Johnson\u2014will come out of nowhere, VCU-like, in the Masters. And&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/golf\/personalities\/251\/dustin-johnson-can-master-his-demons\" title=\"ReadDustin Johnson can Master his demons\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2980,334,6120,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf","category-news","category-commentary","category-the-masters","category-personalities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2011\/03\/Headshot-20046.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}