"I knew there wasn't any waste bunkers. But all the bunkers on the course had a darkish color to the sand. This was white dirt."

Doug Ferguson catches up with Dustin Johnson taking it easy after the PGA and notes that he was the first player to play in the final group of two majors in a season not to win since Ernie Els (2004), Phil Mickelson (2001) and David Duval (2000).

And this final clarification from Ferguson on the bunker situation.

What gets misinterpreted is the notion that Johnson could have avoided this mess if he had only read the rule sheet posted in the locker room all week.

Nonsense.

It's a safe bet that 75 percent of the field never read the sheet and still knew the rule.

Johnson said he knew without reading that every bunker at Whistling Straits was a hazard. If he had memorized the local rule the way school kids memorize the Pledge of Allegiance, he would have played it the same way.

"Rules are rules," he said. "Obviously, I know the rules very well. I just never thought I was in a bunker, or I would have never grounded my club. Maybe walking up to the ball, if all those people hadn't been there, maybe I would have recognized it as a sand trap. I knew there wasn't any waste bunkers. But all the bunkers on the course had a darkish color to the sand. This was white dirt."