Dustin Johnson and the 15 Golfers Who Best Represent the Future of American Golf

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Published: May 25, 2011

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Recently, I said that the era of Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson being the golf standards of professional golf is beyond us.

Woods will be 36 at the end of the year and Mickelson turns 41 in June. Truthfully, it's not just them. Other than Tiger and Phil, Jim Furyk, Zach Johnson, Lucas Glover, David Duval, Ben Curtis, Todd Hamilton, Stewart Cink, David Toms, Rich Beem and Shaun Micheel are the only Americans to win majors since the year 2000.

Some of them are still going strong, while some have fallen into virtual obscurity. Regardless of which of those categories these golfers are a part of, none of them are younger than 30, and only Curtis and and Glover have yet to turn 35.

Golf's a game where players enjoy success into their 40's, so we may still see some of these names for a while, but their best days are likely past us.

Currently, German Martin Kaymer and South Africans Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel are the only under-30 golfers to have won major championships. It is worth noting that those three represent the last three major champions.

In recent years, we have also seen a huge influence of young, International players. We have seen Edoardo Molinari (30) and his younger brother, Francesco (29). Their countryman, Matteo Manassero, has already won two tournaments in Europe, and he just turned 18 years old.

Ryo Ishikawa has already won several tournaments in Asia, and he has yet to turn 20. Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy is ranked sixth in the world and climbing. He lost a big 54-hole lead at Augusta, but at 22, his future seems extremely bright.

In that tournament, we also saw 24-year-old Australian Jason Day have one of the best performances of all-time for an Augusta rookie.

The question remains, where are the young Americans? Is the future of the world of golf going to be completely dominated by International players? It very well might be, and there's nothing wro...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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