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Detroit 46 32 s 40 25 pc
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delivery
5 Spread apart,
like fingers
10 Los Angeles
footballers
14 Yoked farm
animals
15 Get away
from
16 Radiate
17 You may pay
with them
19 ___ colada
20 On cloud nine
21 Noble gas
that’s about
1% of the
atmosphere
22 Main computer
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tournament held
in Augusta,
Georgia
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30 Shows with
vendor booths
31 Common tattoo
site
32 Take apart
36 High-five sound
37 Features of
17-, 22-, 47-
and 58-Across
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overthrow of
a government
40 Belgrade resident
41 Frying need
42 Pumpkin eater of
rhyme
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measurement
47 Popular
cylindrical snack
container
51 Detection
system with
pings
52 Puzzle with a
quotation
57 “___ for All
Seasons”
58 Casino fixture
60 Singer Horne
61 Seriously
overweight
62 Placed, as a bet
63 Tavern
frequented by
Homer Simpson
64 Rapper Elliott
65 Cedar or sequoiaTheWSJDailyCrossword|Edited by Mike Shenk
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for short
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creations
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5 Distinct district
6 Makes braids in
7 Clumsy move
8 Put two and two
together
9 “You are correct!”
10 Xeroxed, say
11 Spanish girlfriend
12 Inconsequential
13 Get to one’s feet
18 Calms down
21 1860s president,
familiarly
23 Wyatt of the
Wild West
24 Tachometer
units: Abbr.
25 Stateofasty
26 Wheel connector
27 Practice in the
ring
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innocence
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couple
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Grand Ole ___
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summer breeze
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Abbr.
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an ID badge
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on “SNL”
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48 Juliet’s love
49 Ridiculous
50 “Land ___!” (old
cry of dismay)
53 Shaker sprinkle
54 Ski lift type
55 Tennis legend
Nastase
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58 Toy dog, for
short
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suggested by HOLLYWOOD ENDING, taking the
last letters of each word in the six film titles in the
clues (“Elf,” “ThelmaandLouise,” “ApartmentZero,”
“Cobb,” “HotelRwanda” and “JurassicPark”) spells
the contest answer.ASNER ALG I D ROB
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shot a 10 on the par-3 12th hole
before finishing at 1 under par.
But Johnson did what he hasn’t
so many times in the past: he
straightened himself out. He fol-
lowed up his back-to-back bogeys
with a birdie on the par-3 sixth.
The only tension left, at the end,
was his quest for the record books.
Consecutive birdies on the 13th,
14th and 15th holes put Johnson at
20-under and set a new standard at
this iconic venue. He was so locked
in that as he walked up the 18th
fairway, he turned to his brother
and caddie to ask where he stood
on the leaderboard.
“He had no clue,” Austin Johnson
said.
“I did not,” Dustin Johnson said.
“I mean, I assumed I had the lead.”
Johnson’s history of miscues
and misfortune had lasted for so
long that the sport he had domi-
nated had changed dramatically
since he last won his first and only
major. Players like Brooks Koepka
and Bryson DeChambeau emerged
as powerful forces, Woods won his
first major in more than a decade
at last year’s Masters.
The first time Johnson entered
the Sunday of a major with a lead
he had his most epic breakdown. At
the 2010 U.S. Open, he went into
the day with a three-shot lead and
finished five strokes back after a fi-nal round 82. Then he was tied for
the 54-hole lead at the 2015 and
2018 U.S. Opens, too, only to come
up short. Earlier this year, he was
in the same position outright at the
PGA Championship before watching
someone else take the title.
“There was doubts in my mind,
just because I had been there. I’m
in this position a lot of times,” he
said Sunday. “Like when am I go-
ing to have the lead and finish off
the golf tournament or finish off a
major?”
Koepka, who has won four ma-
jors since Johnson’s last, blew all
of this into the open when he said
he indicated that he liked his
chances entering the final round of
the PGA Championship because
Johnson, the leader, hadn’t taken
these big events. “He’s only won
one,” Koepka said then.
Johnson had never entered Sun-
day atop the leaderboard here, but
his knack for having the wrong
things happen at the wrong times
was most apparent at the Masters.
He was playing perhaps the best
golf of his career entering the 2017
Masters, until he reportedly fell
down a staircase at the house he
was staying at just before the
tournament and had to withdraw.
This year, Johnson’s problem
wasn’t unique to him. More than 11
million Americans in 2020 have
been confronted with the samecondition: he tested positive for
Covid-19.
His result came a month before
the start of the Masters and he was
forced into quarantine and out of
action at a time when he was once
again playing phenomenally. In his
prior five PGA Tour events, he had
finished first twice, second twice
and sixth at the U.S. Open.
“You sit in the hotel room for
two weeks, it doesn’t do a lot for
the golf game,” he said.
But he returned last week—in a
tune-up he wouldn’t have normally
played—without any problem, card-
ing a second place finish. That rees-
tablished Johnson’s perch as one of
the favorites at this bizarre, pan-
demic edition of the Masters.
He began the week shooting a 65
and 70 in the opening two rounds,
placing him 9 under par and in a
five-way tie for first—tied for the
most players ever tied for the lead
at the tournament’s midpoint.
Then, with a 65 in the third
round, he became the first player in
Masters history to post two rounds
of 65 or better in the same week.
All that was left was playing like
he had for the first three days. Af-
ter an early scare, he did just that
with a final-round 68.
There was only one thing left for
Johnson to do after he sank his fi-
nal putt: slip on the most iconic
piece of clothing in sports.Augusta, Ga.
Since Dustin Johnson won his
first major four years ago, no
player had experienced such a
spectacular series of calamities. He
blew late leads at majors and once
had to withdraw from the Masters
when he was at the top of his
game because he injured himself in
a fall. A month ago, he tested posi-
tive for the virus that shoved this
year’s Masters to an unusual spot
on the calendar in 2020.
Throughout those years, John-
son spent more time than anyone
else ranked No. 1 in the world—
and won exactly zero more majors.
When he stepped up to the tee box
on the mostly empty first hole
here at Augusta National on Sun-
day—to a smattering of applause
from the handful of people on
hand keeping it from being totally
silent—his commanding lead
hardly seemed too secure.
It wasn’t. His four-shot lead
winnowed to one after just five
holes. His history looked to be re-
peating itself until he cemented a
new piece of history: Dustin John-
son is a record-breaking Masters
champion.
Johnson, a 36-year-old Ameri-
can and the world’s No. 1 golfer,
won this year’s green jacket with
an unforgettable showing in an un-
usual year. He finished 20-under
par—the lowest Masters score
ever—and five shots clear of Sung-
jae Im and Cameron Smith to win
golf’s last major of 2020.
“I’ve had the lead a couple
times and haven’t been able to fin-
ish it off,” he said. “I couldn’t be
more happy, and I think I look
pretty good in green, too.”
The entire tournament was a
strange sight. Typically played in
front of throngs of fans in April,
when Augusta National’s azaleas
are in full bloom, the Masters was
one of the first major events post-
poned as the Covid-19 pandemic
upended both the country and the
sports world. Instead, this Masters
was accented by fall color and only
attended by friends and family of
the players and members of the
exclusive club.
Against this backdrop, Johnson
entered Sunday chasing records
and his own past. He was 0-for-
in his career when entering a ma-
jor with a share of the Sunday
lead, but at 16-under par he was
just two strokes shy of the Mas-
ters record, set by Tiger Woods in
1997 and matched by Jordan
Spieth in 2015.
It didn’t take long for the drama
to emerge. He mishit shots, mis-
fired putts and missed the preci-
sion that placed him atop the lead-
erboard. After he bogeyed the
fourth and fifth holes, he had just
a one shot lead. It only took a look
at Woods to see how quickly
things can unravel on this course.
The five-time Masters champion
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