Who won last year’s US Open?

Who won the 2016 US Open?

The US Open is widely regarded as the toughest of the four major tournaments on the PGA Tour to conquer. With the narrow fairways, oatmeal-thick cuts of rough and the mental strain it takes on figuring out greens from hole-to-hole, it’s a hard task for anyone that tees up a ball during the weekend.

In the 2016 edition of the United States Open, the best golfers on the planet attempted to tame Oakmont Country Club in northeast Pennsylvania, with Dustin Johnson coming out on top at -4 overall with a 269 on the weekend, including a 69 on the final day of the tournament.

Johnson, who previously had two runner-up finishes in major tournaments during his career (The Open Championship, 2011 and US Open, 2015) held off Shane Lowry and a surging Jim Furyk to win his first career major championship on the PGA Tour.

Of course with Johnson, nothing came without a little bit of controversy.

On the fifth hole at Oakmont during his final round, Johnson had a par putt lined up to keep him at -4 on the tournament, but out of nowhere, his ball moved ever so slightly. It appeared on television that Johnson may have nudged it himself. He immediately alerted a rules official on the course on what happened with his ball’s position. Johnson made the putt, stayed at -4, but was later accessed a one-stroke penalty after he already clinched the title.

Despite a strange back injury that forced him to withdraw from The Masters, Johnson will come into the 2017 US Open as one of the big favorites at Erin Hills in Wisconsin.

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No golfer since American golfer Curtis Strange in 1988 and 1989 has won back-to-back US Open tournaments, so there’s also some history on the line for Johnson entering his title defense.