Prior to the Masters, Johnson won the Dell Technologies Match Play, the Genesis Open at Riviera Country Club and the WGC Mexico Championship.
According to oddsmakers at BetDSI, Dustin Johnson is listed as the favorite to be the top American finisher, as he has 5/2 odds. Rivals Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth and Jason Day are all considered close contenders, with 12/1 odds of taking first place. He won three events in a row heading into the Masters, the PGA Tour's longest winning streak since Rory McIlroy also won three in a row in the 2014.
If Johnson manages to win again this week, he will become the first player in nearly 30 years to successfully defend the tournament after Curtis Strange in 1989.
Second-favourite McIlroy, 28, will be eager to impress at the U.S. Open having fallen slightly short at the Masters in April, finishing tied for seventh but six shots back from victor Sergio Garcia.
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Johnson is the No. 1-ranked golfer in the world entering this weekend.
Spieth is fifth in the world rankings right now.
This wouldn't be the first time that the birth of child interfered with a star player's U.S. Open trip. He was second in 2014 and 10 in 2013.
Golf Digest added that Johnson has a press conference at 4 p.m. Wisconsin time at Erin Hills on Wednesday, so it's all set up for DJ to be around for his second kid's birth and to play. In 1998, Phil Mickelson played the major while his wife could have gone into labor at any moment, which would have forced him to withdraw.
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