Dustin Johnson completes WGC Slam with Dell Technologies Match Play win

Johnson’s recent dominance continued throughout the entirety of his week at Austin Country Club, never falling behind during a single match. In the Lone Star State, his firepower was so assertive he didn’t trail in any match (he played 112 holes), won the first hole six of seven times, and reached the 18th hole just twice all week. Rahm will face Johnson in the Championship Match, scheduled to begin at 3:15 pm ET.

His big rally was a little short. After driving his ball beyond the green on the 356-yard 18th hole, which he hadn’t seen all week, Rahm was startled by a closing port-a-john door that led to a bad eagle chip. But Rahm went on a tear on the back nine.

“I definitely didn’t play my best today in the first match or the second”, Johnson said.

When he missed the birdie putt, Rahm found himself just two down with thee to play and there was a sense the momentum was in his favour.

Anyone who’s even just once played 18 holes on a weekend afternoon at the local muni understands this concept. Then, he had to make an eight-foot par putt to beat Tanihara and avoid extra holes.

However, Johnson then chunked a wedge at the next and Tanihara pitched to four feet and holed the chance, and he converted another excellent approach to six feet at the 14th to level the encounter. Johnson stretched his lead to 5 up with yet another bogey by Rahm, and it looked as though this match might be over early. “I think he’s learned from what he’s done in the past and he’s embracing it now and that’s why he’s winning tournaments”.

However, Rahm won the ninth, tenth, 13th, 15th and 16th holes to peg it back to 1UP – Johnson won the 12th – but pars for both players on the final two holes meant that the American clung on. “Its fun and its exciting to watch”, Johnson said.

Johnson, who is now the first player to win all four World Golf Championship events, beat Zach Johnson, Alex Noren, Hideto Tanihara and Rahm once out of pool play. It’s one of my favourite tournaments to play every year.

Three-time Masters victor Mickelson had not trailed this week until Haas opened their match with a birdie. Donald was ahead in 91 percent of his matches.

He previously won the Mexico Championship, Bridgestone Invitational and HSBC Champions.

“I feel like I didn’t really give him any holes except for 10…”