30 days following Geoff Ogilvy's second straight victory in the SBS Championship (that could now carry a brand latest label, the Hyundai Occasion of Champs), Dustin Johnson started out 2010 the identical way- simply saying the AT&T Pebble Shore National Pro-Am. When the US Open, furthermore held with Pebble, rolled all-around, several believed that his good results on the Monterey Peninsula would likely bode well for Johnson, while others considered that the difficult Open setup may remember any advantages. He obtained the first few days at a fairly pedestrian velocity, but their 66 in the third spherical shot them to the top of the leader plank. A few arrived to the final rounded convinced that his or her 3 shot lead would probably store, while others thought that he may struggle to hold off the sturdy leader board that consisted of Graeme McDowell, Tiger Woods, Ernie Els, and Phil Mickelson. Manley not merely relinquished the lead, but he achieved it in ancient fashion, firing a final round 82 to finish T8. McDowell may ultimately win the contest, while little-known Frenchman Gregory Havret seemed to be the runner up.
After a solid T14 conclude in the Open Championship, Johnson went to the PGA Championship from Whistling Straits shopping poised to produce another run at a major. His initially 3 reliable rounds put your ex 3 shots back of in a single day chief Chip Watney, and Manley seemed ready to challenge for his or her first major. After Watney did what exactly shall from now on be generally known as "pulling a Dustin" conducted by simply shooting an Eighty one in the last round, Johnson's birdies upon 16 and Teen gave your ex a one way up lead going into 18.
Subsequent flaring his push to the best suited, he made what appeared to be a bogey that might have put them into a 3 approach playoff with Martin Kaymer and Bubba Watson. About holing out, that it was deemed of which Johnson grounded his club in the fairway bunker, which often cost him a couple stroke punishment and a spot in the playoff. Kaymer could carry on taking control of Watson in that playoff, presenting Dustin Johnson their 2nd main loss inside of a three four week period span.
