Johnson collapse ties PGA record

Justin Rose, who began the final round trailing Dustin Johnson by eight shots, won a shocker at the HSBC Champions in Shanghai when the No. 1 player in the world went into the PGA Tour record books for all the wrong reasons.

Instead of becoming the first player to win three World Golf Championships in one year, Johnson tied a record for losing the largest lead in the final round. Six shots clear of the field, Johnson didn’t make a single birdie on a wind-blown Sunday for a collapse that even Rose didn’t see coming.

“The beginning of the day, I was playing for second,” Rose said.

As Rose completed a five-under 67, he looked up and saw Johnson’s last hope for eagle on the 18th tumble off the side of the green and into the water. Johnson shot 77, his highest final round with the lead since an 82 at Pebble Beach in the 2010 U.S. Open.

“I just could never get anything going and didn’t hole any putts,” Johnson said. “It was pretty simple.”

Johnson matched the record for losing a six-shot lead, most recently by Sergio Garcia in 2005, most famously by Greg Norman in the 1996 Masters.

Only two other players in PGA Tour history have come from more than eight shots behind on the final day to win — Paul Lawrie (10 shots) in the 1999 British Open and Stewart Cink (nine shots) at Hilton Head in 2004.

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