According to his biography, he was born in the city of Columbia in the state of South Carolina. He played collegiate golf with Coastal Carolina University. While he was still amateur, he won Monroe Invitational and the Northeast Amateur. He played and won 2007 Walker Cup at Plamer Cup teams. He became the first player after Tiger Wood to be able to win once in the first seven season after his college.

Dustin Johnson became a professional starting 2007 and he earned the 2008 Tour Card when he finished as a tie at the 14th place in 2007 qualifying School. When he was about to finish his Rocky period, he won the first PGA Tour event in Turning Stone Resort Championship in the Upstate New York. In four months afterwards, he won the second event of AT&T at Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. It was shortened to be 54 holes since the final round got canceled because of too much rain and strong winds. He got the win with only four strokes over that of Mike Weir and he got five strokes over Retiel Goosen who is the second round leader. In 2009, he was ranked at 15th position at the list of PGA Tour money.

Dustin Johnson is of white ethnicity and of American citizenship. He is a tall man and has 1.93 meters. The weight is 86 kilograms and it is the right match to his height. He was born to Scott Johnson and his wife Kandee. His parents are known to be proud of what he has been able to achieve. He has got good money both from his games and from the appearance in advertisements. One day he was in the PGA Superstore and this appearance made a great impact. He has a net worth of 20 million dollars and this proves that he had been successful.

She dated paulina gretzky for sometime but they decided to be more serious and they got engaged. Paulina is a celebutante, signer and a model and her father is Wayne Gretzky. They have already a son called Tatum Gretzky Johnson. Even if he is known to be successful with a powerful swing, he had some share of the controversies including drugs use.