The captain of 4 Aces GC, Dustin Johnson, faced the captain of HyFlyers GC, Phil Mickelson, in the first singles match of the LIV Golf Team Championship’s semifinal on Sunday at the Trump National Doral, Miami.
Johnson defeated Mickelson by a margin of 2 & 1. His team defeated the latter’s team by 2-1 to proceed to the final day of the event, reserving their spot in Tier 1. They will now fight for the $14,000,000 prize money on Sunday.
While the win that Dustin Johnson registered looked smooth, there was an unforgettable moment in the match for the 39-year-old as he shanked his shot on the 15th hole.
Two of the RangeGoats GC’s players came to Johnson and asked about the forgettable shank. At first, Harold Varner III enquired about the shot, to which the American golfer replied by saying that it wasn’t a shank and went up straight right.
However, when Bubba Watson came in and took a jab at Dustin Johnson, he unwillingly accepted it and called it a solid shot. Speaking on the shank, Johnson was quoted by The Palm Beach Report as saying:
Dustin Johnson also commented on his match with Phil Mickelson, saying that he knew what to expect given the two have played quite a lot of golf with each other in the past.
