Hockey players have a superstition about not touching the Stanley Cup unless they’ve won it. Jordan Spieth, however, wasn’t spooked about getting his hands — and lips — on the British Open trophy he just missed out on winning. Spieth and Open winner Zach Johnson flew home to the United States on the same private […]
Zach Johnson makes it two albatrosses in two days at Bay Hill
March 22, 2015 by
There had never been an albatross made in the Arnold Palmer Invitational until Daniel Berger broke the ice on Saturday. On Sunday, Zach Johnson made the second. Using a 5-iron from 207 yards in the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational, Johnson made a 2 to go from 5 under to 8 under on […]
Teeing Off: Is Zach Johnson on his way to the Hall of Fame?
January 9, 2014 by
Welcome to Teeing Off, where Devil Ball editor Shane Bacon and national columnist Jay Busbee take a day’s topic and smack it all over the course. Suggest a future topic by hitting us on Twitter at @shanebacon and @jaybusbee. Today we talk about Zach Johnson’s potential as a Hall of Famer. Bacon: On Monday afternoon, […]
Tiger Woods blows four-shot lead with eight holes to go to Zach Johnson at his own tournament
December 9, 2013 by
It was an ending like no other on Sunday at Sherwood Country Club, with Zach Johnson taking down Tiger Woods at the Northwestern Mutual World Challenge in the most unusual of outcomes. Tiger Woods missing a short putt to lose a tournament? It happened. Zach Johnson hitting an 8-iron from the middle of the fairway […]
Zach Johnson posts 3-under 67 to stay in the hunt at Colonial
May 26, 2012 by
Fort Worth, Texas — Zach Johnson is one of the quieter guys on the PGA Tour. But following Friday’s 3-under 67 (his 14th consecutive round in the 60s at Colonial), he waltzed into the media center, grabbed PGA Tour media official John Bush’s microphone and bellowed, “Zach Johnson is in the hooooouseee.” It was a […]
Showdown, Week 21: Rickie Fowler vs. Zach Johnson
May 24, 2012 by
So in an attempt to inject a bit more life and interest into tournaments, and because we’re all inveterate gamblers who are one bad card from being out on the streets, Jay Busbee and I are playing a golf version of a football suicide pool: We each pick one golfer per tournament and see how […]
