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DORAL, Florida — For Dustin Johnson, making more than $35 million in five months on the LIV Golf Series didn’t quite reach his expectations.
“It was pretty good,” Johnson said. “I feel like it should have been a lot better. My season, I played good. I didn’t play my best.”
Yet Johnson, one of the original defectors from the PGA Tour, won LIV’s triple crown. He topped the money leaders list, won the individual championship and on Sunday captained 4 Aces to the team championship at Doral’s Blue Monster.
Johnson, Patrick Reed, Talor Gooch and Pat Perez split the $16 million first-place prize money Sunday shooting 7-under, one stroke better than Cameron Smith’s team.
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All of that equals $35.6 million for Johnson, including the $18 million bonus for winning the season-long individual title. Add to that a reported $125 million, four-year contract to defect from the PGA Tour and the $1.6 million he made for playing 12 events on the PGA Tour, and DJ pocketed $68.5 million this year. He made about $75 million in 15 years on the PGA Tour.
Not a bad year. Or lifetime … or multiple lifetimes even if it left Johnson feeling as if he left money on the green.
The weekend was a snapshot of LIV’s inaugural season with the biggest purse ($50 million) in the history of the sport and a champagne celebration on stage with The Chainsmokers as the entertainment.
This was everything Greg Norman dreamed of coming together.
“All the pushback, all the negative comments we’ve gotten, I don’t care,” said Pat Perez, part of Johnson’s team.
“I’m paid. I don’t give a damn.”
4 Aces won despite having a target on its back. Smith was asked Saturday if there were any rivalries developing in LIV Golf because of the team concept.
“I think everyone is out to beat 4 Aces,” Smith said. “Personally, they are the one.”
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