{"id":113080,"date":"2020-11-16T17:36:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T14:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/dustin-johnsons-emotional-masters-interview-shocked-amanda-balionis\/"},"modified":"2020-11-16T17:36:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T14:36:40","slug":"dustin-johnsons-emotional-masters-interview-shocked-amanda-balionis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dustin-johnsons-emotional-masters-interview-shocked-amanda-balionis\/","title":{"rendered":"#Dustin Johnson\u2019s emotional Masters interview shocked Amanda Balionis"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Dustin Johnson\u2019s emotional Masters interview shocked Amanda Balionis<\/strong>”
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\n Amanda Balionis has been interviewing Dustin Johnson for nearly a decade, and the CBS Sports reporter was as surprised as anyone when the newly minted Masters champion broke down and cried during their chat following his breakthrough victory Sunday at Augusta.<\/p>\n

\u201cVery (surprised),\u201d Balionis told the Big Lead<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ve been interviewing Dustin since I started covering golf in 2011 and you kind of know what to expect. He\u2019s going to answer the question that you ask and he\u2019s going to underplay his performance and always chalk it up to executing and being in command. When he\u2019s not playing well, he\u2019s very honest about that too but he\u2019s general<\/a>ly unemotional. Even when he won his first major there wasn\u2019t a lot of emotion.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think what happ<\/a>ened, though, is he was wearing the green jacket on the practice putting green, (2019 champion) Tiger (Woods) had just put it on him and it really just hit him in that moment that he\u2019d accomplished his childhood dream.\u201d<\/p>\n

The normally stoic Johnson \u2014 who grew up barely an hour from Augusta in Irmo, South Carolina \u2014 fired a record-setting 20-under par to win the Masters for the first time in his career, breaking the tournament record of 18-under held by Tiger Woods in 1997 and Jordan Spieth in 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe grew up an hour away from this golf course. This was the one, and when I asked him the question, I think he really took himself back to when he was a little kid dreaming of the moment and it finally hit him,\u201d Balionis said. \u201cIt was pretty incredible to see because we usually see a very in-control Dustin Johnson and we kind of got a peek behind the curtain, which I think was wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 36-year-old Johnson had won one major tournament previously in his career, the 2016 US Open, and he\u2019d finished tied for second last year at Augusta. The world\u2019s No. 1-ranked player paused for nearly 10 seconds when he was asked Sunday what winning the Masters meant to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was clearly such a vulnerable moment for him and my job is to try to create space for the person to give their authentic feelings and emotions in that moment,\u201d Balionis said. \u201cI thought he was being his most authentic self and that\u2019s not something he always does in the public eye. I needed to give him space.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he can gather his words, great, but if he can\u2019t, that silence and his reaction probably says more than words ever could \u2026 In that moment, I was going to let Dustin be exactly where he needed to be.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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