Can Dustin Johnson Whistle Past Nick Watney for PGA Title?
Filed under: PGA, PGA Championship SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — They call this place Whistling Straits. It became Whistling Golfer after Saturday’s third round. “At this point it’s just another golf tournament,” Nick Watney said. “That’s the way I need to look at it. Obviously it’s not.” That is what’s known as whistling past the graveyard. You pretend you’re not scared, when really all you want to do is hop in the nearest bunker. There are more than 1,000 of them at Whistling Straits, and so far Watney has done a remarkable job of negotiating the sand, the wind, the slopes and getting hit by one of Tiger Woods‘ wild shots. But after 54 holes of work, he hasn’t done anything yet. Well, that’s not exactly true. Watney has eerily aligned the planets in a formation we last saw on June 19. On that day, a golfer shot 66. He looked smooth and unbeatable. He had a three-shot lead going into the final round. It was his first lead going into the final round of a major. He did a bit of whistling as he left
