OAKMONT, Pa. — Dustin Johnson’s much-discussed major championship drought was a crack in the earth next to the barren desert that is the Cleveland sports landscape or the dry-as-a-bone futility of his fellow golfer Lee Westwood and Sergio García, who are now a combined 0 for 144 in the four men’s majors.
The laconic Johnson tends to speak in sentences as short as his drives are long. But his 0-for-28 record in the majors rankled, as was made plain after he took the lead at the halfway point of the rain-plagued 116th United States Open.
Asked for the umpteenth time about last year’s tournament, which he delivered to Jordan Spieth with a three-putt on the 72nd hole, Johnson deadpanned, “What happened last year?