OAKMONT, Pa.Why would it come easily?This was, after all, Dustin Johnson. Russell Wilson Hoodies Sweatshirts And it was the pointy end of a golf major.MORE: Trainwrecks happen when hes at the wheel at times like these.The debacles of the past, though, have at least been self-inflicted.He shot himself in the foot at Whistling Straits to throw away a PGA Championship, shanked a long iron at Royal St. Georges to gift Darren Clarke a Claret Jug, imploded at Pebble Beach with a big lead and, infamously, three-putted to lose the U.S. Open by one shot last year at Chambers Bay.But what happened on Sunday wasnt self-inflicted.It was as close to an attempt at public execution as golf gets.MORE: A kangaroo court has more justice than that meted out to Johnson on a steamy Sunday afternoon at Oakmont Country Club with only everything on the line.On the fifth green, Johnsons ball moved very slightly as he was about to putt. He hadnt grounded his putter and so he informed a rules official and was supported by playing partner Lee Westwood in his a sertion that he didnt cause the ball to move.The rules official told him to play the ball with no penalty.But like some sort of Kafkaesque plot twist,others within the United States Golf A sociation, an amateur body filled with to-the-manor-born lawyers and doctors and captains of industry, decided to investigate.Because thats what Steve Largent Jersey people who want to be important do.What happened next was a typically cowardly lawyers move.Instead of ruling one way or the other, Johnson was approached by USGA officials on the 12thtee and told that what happened on the fifth green would be reviewed after the round.The inference was clear: Apenalty was looming.So he,and everyone else in the hunt at Oakmont,played for two hours not knowing the score. Literally. Should he play safe with a one-shot lead or should he think hes going to be penalized and so needs to be aggre sive? And if he tries to push the envelope and makes bogey and isnt given a penalty? Golf had never seen such a nightmare.MORE: Its nothing new at this point, Johnson would later say of things not going his way on Sundays at majors.Its happened Seattle Seahawks T Shirts so many times, I kind of expect it now.What the callous move by the USGA did, however, was trigger one of as players took to social media to vent their anger and to support Johnson.This is ridiculous... No penalty whatsoever for DJ. Let the guy play without this crap in his head. Amateur hour from Rory McIlroy (@McIlroyRory) I feel sick. What has our game come to? Tony Jacklin CBE (@jacklin_tony) DJ took the high road to take that penalty. This ordeal cannot be overlooked because of a multiple shot victory Jordan Spieth (@JordanSpieth) Tiger Woods The USGA did, ultimately, deliver a one-shot penalty,effectively calling its newest champion a liar by insisting he Seattle Seahawks Women Jersey did indeed cause the ball to move but in the end it didnt matter.McCARTHY: Because the man with when the pre sure is on did the very opposite.Johnson showed steel that we and perhaps even he didnt think he had inside, capping a tremendous final round filled with clutch par putts with a shot he called the best hes ever hit a 6-iron into the last to 3 feet.Because of the penalty, he Bryan Mone Jersey won by three instead of four the pretenders to the title wilted under the pre sure:Shane Lowry shot 76, Andrew Landry 78, Lee Westwood had an 80 and afterward took the high road in playing down the USGAs insensitivity.It ended up that it didnt matter, but I know I didnt break that rule. I didnt cause that ball to move, he said.What was mattered most, he said, was getting that monkey off my back.Not something the USGA will be able to say anytime soon.