Claude III on his famous family, famous pupils and the blank canvas that was tiger woods.
US OPEN AT PINEHURST, 2014. During practice rounds, players are asking Dustin Johnson his strategy on the par 4s and 5s. On every tee they ask, “What are you going to do here?” His answer was always the same: “Sending driver,” he said, meaning he’s just going to bash driver everywhere. Today it’s part of the vernacular among my guys and my dad’s. Ask Rickie Fowler, Jimmy Walker or even their caddies what they’re going to do on a hole, and they say to each other, “Send, bro, send. Gonna send it.” It’s an inside joke. They all know that nobody sends it like Dustin.
DUSTIN IS THE POSTER CHILD
for everything sport psychologists recommend but what nobody is really able to do. After he three-putted the last hole at the 2015 US Open at Chambers Bay and lost to Jordan Spieth, we all knew he’d be crushed. An hour later, I was in the garage of his rental house, loading up the cars to go to the airport. Dustin came out, looked at me and smiled. “I played so (bleeping) good today,” he said. And that was it. He never mentioned it again, at least not to me.
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