Dustin Hunter Johnson has become one of the leading players on the PGA Tour. Johnson was born in Columbia, South Carolina and played collegiate golf at Coastal Carolina University. As an amateur, he played on the winning 2007 USA Walker Cup team. Johnson and partner Colt Knost claimed a day one half against Ireland’s Rory McIlroy and Jonathon Caldwell. Johnson turned professional following the Walker Cup and earned his 2008 PGA Tour card by finishing in a tie for 14th place in the 2007 qualifying school. Johnson won his first PGA Tour event, the Turning Stone Resort Championship in October 2008. Four months later, he won his second event at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, a tournament that was shortened to 54 holes when the final round was cancelled due to strong winds and heavy rain, leaving Johnson the winner by four strokes over Mike Weir.
Off the course controversy has courted Johnson. One month after his second tour win he was arrested in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and charged with Driving Under the Influence. "I made an error in judgment that I deeply regret," Johnson said in a statement released by the PGA Tour. "I have let myself down and others who support me. I am handling the matter privately, and rest assured, I will definitely learn from my mistake." That arrest wasn’t Johnson’s first brush with the law. In 2001 he found himself unwittingly linked to a murder charge. Johnson was among five teens involved in a burglary where somebody took a gun. According to court documents, Johnson was persuaded to buy bullets for the gun by a friend's menacing older brother. Later that month the brother, Steve Gillian, was charged with murder after shooting his victim multiple times in the head. Because of Johnson's connection to the crime, he had to pay restitution for the theft and agree to testify at the murder trail. Gillian is serving life without parole. "Eight years ago, I couldn't see myself being here,” Johnson said after his second Tour victory at Pebble Beach.
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