Johnson irons out wrinkles in game ahead of PGA Championship

World number five Dustin Johnson said he went"back to basics" after an inconsistent spell in which he won the Travelers Championship in June, only to miss the cut three weeks later at the Memorial Tournament in Ohio.

FILE PHOTO: Aug 4, 2020; San Francisco, California, USA; Dustin Johnson hits his tee shot on the second hole during a practice round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at TPC Harding Park. PHOTO: Reuters/ Kyle Terada-USA TODAY SportsSAN FRANCISCO: World number five Dustin Johnson said he went"back to basics" after an inconsistent spell in which he won the Travelers Championship in June, only to miss the cut three weeks later at the Memorial Tournament in Ohio.

Johnson joins a stacked field at the PGA Championship this week and said he has fine-tuned his game after the disappointing showing at Memorial and subsequent withdrawal from the 3M Open a week later due to back problems."I was swinging terribly. My back was bothering me just from swinging back. I didn't hurt it doing anything. I hurt it swinging just because I was swinging so poorly," Johnson told reporters on Wednesday in San Francisco.

Johnson, who won the U.S. Open in 2016 and finished runner-up at the 2019 Masters and PGA Championship, will attempt at TPC Harding Park to secure a second major title."After you win the first one, you also - you know you can do it so it definitely makes it easier, but it's never easy to win a major," he said."Every part of your game needs to be on point, and that's the difficult part about winning a major.

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