Dustin Johnson has always carried an air of contradiction. On one hand, he’s the laid-back superstar who made golf look absurdly easy. On the other hand, his career has been shadowed by late-night habits and personal battles that nearly derailed it all. Those who knew him before the green jackets and world rankings remember both sides clearly. And one of them, former PGA Tour pro Colt Knost , just shared a story from their amateur days that captures Johnson perfectly.

Knost, appearing on a Skratch podcast , remembers traveling the Northeast circuit with Dustin Johnson as a young amateur. “ DJ was the best. Him and I room together a lot like at these big amateur events. ” They would attend tournament after tournament together, and then stay with the same host family. That gave Kn

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