Johnson coasts to win, top rank
Genesis Open victory by fifive strokes ends Day’s streak at No. 1.
Dustin Johnson went to No. 1 in the world with a world-class performance at Riviera.
Johnson turned a marathon fifinish into a Sunday stroll in the Genesis Open. He finished the third round in the morning with a 7- under 64 to build a fifive- shot lead, stretched it to nine shots in the fifinal round and coasted to a 71 and a fifive-shot victory.
“It sounds good,” Johnson said when asked about being the top player in the world. “I played really great all day. I couldn’t have driven it any better. That was a big key.”
Johnson became the 20th player to reach No. 1 since the world ranking began in 1986, ending Jason Day’s 47-week stay at the top.
Johnson won for the fourth time against some of golf ’s strongest fifields dating to his U.S. Open victory last summer. All he cared about Sunday was winning at Riviera, one of his favorite courses where he has had chances in four of the last fifive years.
There was no doubt this time. Johnson had a one - shot l e ad when he arrived Sunday at Riviera, which lost 10 hours the previous three days to fog and torrential rain. Johnson had such command of his game that his longest par