AUGUSTA, Ga. — The winner’s walk up the 18th fairway on a Masters Sunday is one of the great processionals in sports. Hell, it might rank right up there with royal weddings and astronaut parades. Thousands of fans standing, cheering as you take the last few steps toward immortality.
So when Dustin Johnson, winner of the 2020 Masters, walked up the hill toward his destiny and heard nothing at all, it was … a little strange. Sure, there were only a few hundred people ringing the green — members and their guests, Augusta National workers done with their shifts, media and family — but they were silent, as if waiting for a cue.