He signed autographs and posed for pictures with fans on No. “That’s pretty good,” he told the awestruck foursome.
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He whipped out his driver and unleashed a smooth and powerful swing. 18 tee, Johnson whipped out his yardage binoculars to eye some distant rocks in the Pacific Ocean. “He was standing on the lip (over the sand), too,” said Johnson’s caddie and younger brother, Austin. 15, when he used his 52-degree wedge to put his approach from 96 yards out in a fairway bunker to two inches of the hole. “No, it would have hurt my ego more than anything,” Johnson told the fan.Ī hole late, Johnson rocketed in a 20-foot uphill putt. “I was ready to say I saw the season-ending jump,” one fan teased. His toe caught the grass, but he regained his balance. Johnson almost took a face-plant while trying to jump out of a bunker on No. He had a few trip-ups Tuesday - one literally - but rebounded with some doozies for shots, too. And I didn’t hit enough fairways off the tee.” I made three bogeys with wedges from the fairway, which is terrible. I hit a lot of great putts, it’s just nothing went in on Friday. “My game, I felt last week, was good, just a little rusty as far as competition-wise,” Johnson said. Prior to that, Johnson hadn’t competed on the Tour since missing the cut at the RBC Canadian Open in July. He missed the cut with an even-par 144 total, but rebounded from a first-round 74 with a 70. Johnson made his return to Tour action last week at the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines. Several fans yelled support to Johnson as he tore his way through Pebble Beach in perfect conditions Tuesday. Johnson said he played or practiced pretty much every day during his off time. During his off time, Johnson and fiancé Paulina Gretzky celebrated the birth of their first child, Tatum Gretzky Johnson.