2019 champion Tiger Woods presents Johnson with the Green Jacket
(Picture: REUTERS)Dustin Johnson has won The Masters with a tournament-record total of 20 under par, becoming the first world number one to win at Augusta since Tiger Woods in 2002.
Johnson now has lifetime access to the infinitely preferable Champions Locker Room at Augusta National after surviving a shaky start to ease to a five-shot victory over Australia's Cameron Smith and South Korea's Sungjae Im.
Johnson - who tested positive for Covid-19 in October - entered the last day at Augusta with a four-shot advantage and on the previous four occasions he had held at least a share of the lead after 54 holes of a major championship, he had not gone on to win.
However, there was to be no slip-up this time as Johnson, who added a Green Jacket to his 2016 US Open title, raced to a history-making five-shot victory.
Having become the first man to reach 20-under par in the tournament, his total of 270 beat the previous best set by Woods in 1997 and Jordan Spieth in 2015.
Smith and Im's totals of 15 under par are the best by a runner-up in tournament history and Smith also became the first player to break 70 in all four rounds, but Johnson was a class apart and now has two wins, three runners-up finishes, a third and a sixth in his last seven starts.
Dustin Johnson wins the 84th Masters Tournament. #themasters pic.twitter.com/5oYa0do7dD
— The Masters (@TheMasters) November 15, 2020
Additional reporting by PA.
