Johnson goes for sweep

Dustin Johnson is one victory away from something not even Tiger Woods has accomplished: a sweep of the four World Golf Championships in Austin, Texas.

All that remains is the Dell Technologies Match Play, and Johnson has to be considered a strong favorite. He is the No. 1 seed for the first time. He is coming off consecutive victories at Riviera and the Mexico Championship. His form has never been better.

And he won't have to worry about Mark Wilson.

Wilson isn't part of the 64-man field at Austin Country Club, but he illustrates why this might be the toughest World Golf Championship to win.

Anything can happen. Anything usually does.

On a Dove Mountain course in the high desert of Arizona that favored big hitters, Wilson eliminated Johnson in back-to-back years. Wilson showed that good putting makes up for a lack of distance off the tee in any format, particularly match play. And Johnson showed that power still requires a little bit of accuracy.

"I played in the desert a lot there," he said with a smile.

Even so, there is reason to believe Johnson might actually make it to Sunday for the first time in his ninth try.

While the seeds of the Match Play champions resembled lotto numbers in the early going of this tournament, that hasn't been the case recently. Over the last 10 years, the worst seed to win was No. 21 (Matt Kuchar and Hunter Mahan). And with the format changing to round-robin group play the last two years, the winners were Rory McIlroy at No. 1 in the world, and Jason Day, who went to No. 1 in the world.