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Dustin Johnson commits to Farmers Insurance Open

Suspension or leave of absence, Dustin Johnson will have been away from the PGA Tour for six months when he returns to competition at the Farmers Insurance Open in two weeks.

On Friday, tournament officials confirmed Johnson has committed to the event to be played Feb. 5-8 at Torrey Pines near San Diego. The official deadline for the field is the Friday of next week's event, the Waste Management Phoenix Open.

Johnson has not competed on the PGA Tour since missing the cut at the RBC Canadian Open in July. On July 31, 2014, Johnson announced he was taking a leave of absence to address "personal challenges." Shortly after, golf.com reported Johnson had been suspended six months for failing a third drug test under the tour's anti-doping program. The report also claimed two of those failed drug tests turned up cocaine. Johnson and tour officials have denied that the South Carolina native was suspended.

In multiple interviews this week in anticipation of his return, Johnson has said he has "issues" but denied cocaine was one of them. Johnson didn't enter rehab during his leave of absence.

The return follows a blueprint detailed months prior, suggesting Johnson wouldn't return to golf until fiancee Paulina Gretzky had given birth to the couple's first child. Gretzky gave birth to a boy, Tatum, on Monday in a Los Angeles-area hospital.


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