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Dustin day I started moving a someone who has dealt
Johnson little bit. Yesterday I did a with his share of setbacks.

Continued from Page 17 little bit of chest and arms. In a 2015 interview, when
Moving up and down, I’m asked his biggest disap-
Good luck finding some- fine. If I’m twisting, it’s a little pointment, Johnson said,
one who can relate to sore. And I’m making some “I’ve had a lot of (stuff)
Johnson’s experience at swings, but I’m not hitting happen to be me, but I
the 81st Masters. any balls.” came out better on the
Sure, there have been As bad as the timing was, other side.”
times when a No. 1 play- it could have been worse. His short memory might be
er had to withdraw from Johnson had scheduled one of his great assets.
a major. But not when the next three weeks off, so For all blunders on the
the player was coming there will be no temptation golf course that he quick-
off three straight victories to play before he is fully ly forgets about, this one
against the strongest fields recovered. His next tour- shouldn’t be much differ-
of the year. Not when that nament is the Wells Fargo ent. He is still playing the
player was five minutes Dustin Johnson talks with media after deciding not to play in the Championship that starts best golf of his life. He still
and 20 yards from the first opening round of the Masters golf tournament at the Augusta May 4, the first of three in a has a chance at his next
tee. National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga., Thursday, April 6, 2017. row. tournament for a fourth
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And never has an injury to thought my back was bro- out. And while it hurt to watch straight PGA Tour victory,
a No. 1 player been so bi- ken.” “The more I thought about the Masters on TV, it felt which would be the longest
zarre on so many levels. He still thought about play- it, there was no chance,” good to see Garcia win. streak since Tiger Woods,
He had finished his final ing when he left the prac- he said. “It just took a while “Sergio and I are friends,” who won five straight over
nine holes of practice tice range Thursday, only to to convince myself.” he said. “I was rooting for six months.
Wednesday before the realize on the putting green There was a small measure him. It was cool to see him “One reason I’m good at
storms rolled in. Johnson that he couldn’t. Johnson of relief that tests revealed get that first one. I know a golf is because I try not to
had gone to the gym and said he was hitting his 4-iron only a bruise. When he flew little bit of what he’s been let it bother me,” Johnson
had just returned to his about 200 yards in the air (it home to Florida, he said, through. He’d been close said. “It sucks. It sucks right
rented house at Augusta usually flies 235 yards) and his lower back hurt for two quite a few times, just like I now. But I woke up this
when it started raining and he had no idea which di- days. Now it’s in a confined had been close. It took him morning, and it was a good
he wanted to move his car. rection the ball was going area near the bruise. He a lot longer.” day.”
Wearing only socks, he until he hit it. Over the next has returned to a routine, People talk about how it And he still has a large col-
slipped down the staircase, 15 minutes, on the cart ride which includes work in the takes time for that first ma- lection of trophies at home.
crashing onto his back and to the putting green and gym. jor to sink in. Johnson might Johnson laughed.
left elbow. a few more full swings be- “I’m not really doing never grasp his unfortunate “That doesn’t hurt,” he
“It was terrible,” Johnson tween putts, reality won much,” Johnson said. “To- turn of events, even for said.q
said. “And the weirdest
part is, I never walk around Forbes: Yankees worth
in socks. For some reason if
I walk around barefooted, big league-high $3.7B
my left foot starts to hurt.
That’s why I always have NEW YORK (AP) — Forbes worth $3.7 billion, up 9 per-
shoes on. But I just got back ranks the New York Yan- cent from last year. The
from the gym and wanted kees as baseball’s most Dodgers are next at $2.75
to run down and move the valuable team for the 20th billion, a 10 percent in-
car over. And I slipped.” straight year and lists the crease.
Johnson said it was the Tampa Bay Rays with the Boston was third at $2.7 bil-
worst pain he has ever felt. lowest valuation. lion, followed by the Chi-
“I thought I broke my back Forbes said Tuesday it es- cago Cubs ($2.675 billion),
in half,” he said. “I really timates the Yankees are San Francisco ($2.65 billion)

New York Yankees’ Gary Sanchez greets his teammates be-
fore a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays at Yankee
Stadium, Monday, April 10, 2017, in New York.
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and New York Mets ($2 bil- Oakland ($880 million), Cin-
budgetaruba@setarnet.aw lion). At the bottom were cinnati ($915 million) and
the Rays ($825 million), Cleveland ($920 million).q