Perry's final-nine 30 lifted him to a T-6, his sixth top-10 in eight tournaments
"As a player, that's what you practice for, to hit the shots when it's time to hit them, and he did it," said Duke, whose runner-up finish was the second of his career. "That's the way it goes. You just have to keep going and put yourself in that situation and, you never know, it might be your turn sometime."
Johnson, incidentally, thought about drowning his putter the week before. Instead, he went to the practice green and rid himself of his technical approach to putting. "I'm more of a feel putter," he said. "I went back to just aiming at a spot and trying to putt more with feel. I guess that's what I should have done in January."
He figured it out soon enough, at any rate, in time to rescue a season that until last week seemed destined to be a lost one.
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