Stuffed shirts at USGA should be eternally grateful to Dustin Johnson

Maybe Dustin Johnson is smarter than the average golfer after all.

The whispers around golf were that the most powerful player in the game didn’t have a head for the game.

The prevailing wisdom — fuelled by a pair of previous 18th-hole miscues — was that if he ever did win a major championship, someone else would have to give it to him.