World number one Dustin Johnson, whose recent bid to repeat as Masters champion resulted in a missed cut, said on Wednesday his game is trending in the right direction ahead of this week’s Valspar Championship in Palm Harbor, Florida.
Johnson shared 13th place at the RBC Heritage at Hilton Head the week after the Masters and is now working to limit mistakes with his irons.
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“I feel like it’s really close,” Johnson said at Innisbrook Resort when asked about the state of his game. “I just haven’t put it all together, especially for a week.
“But I feel like I’m driving it good again. Just a little off with the irons at Hilton Head. Obviously, I hit a lot of good shots, but just didn’t hit enough and made too many costly mistakes with the irons.”
At the 2019 Valspar Championship Johnson entered the final round one stroke behind Paul Casey but closed with a 74 that snapped his streak of 14 consecutive rounds in the 60s and left him in a share of sixth.
The long-hitting American missed the cut in his two previous starts at the event in 2008 and 2010.