Zach Johnson having a great career - in the last seven months alone

So, let's recap what Zach Johnson (insert obligatory reference to him being a Cedar Rapids native here) has on the PGA Tour since last October.

His win at the Texas Open gave him three titles in that time, two of them at that San Antonio event. He has six Top Tens and $4,044,111 in earnings.

No player on the Tour has done as much in that time span.

Johnson's sixth career Tour win in less than six full seasons was probably his least artful, at least from a final-round perspective. He was grinding, seemingly all day, missing a lot of greens in regulation. But he gutted out an even-par 70 to force a playoff with James Driscoll after carding a 60 the day before.

Then, on the first playoff hole, Johnson knocked his approach to within 12 feet of the cup. He rolled in the birdie putt for the victory in sudden death.

Just like that, Johnson moved into the lead of the Tour's FedExCup point standings. He was 131st in the final FedExCup standings in 2008, having been eliminated from the playoffs after the first of the four FedExCup events.

Just like that, Johnson virtually assured himself a spot alongside Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods on this year's U.S. team in the President's Cup this October in San Francisco. It will be his second President's Cup appearance to go with one Ryder Cup berth.

This is an established golf star, period, case closed. His Masters triumph of 2007? That was four victories ago.

Remember what then-Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly said on Dan Patrick's ESPN radio show the week of Johnson's Masters win? Reilly said he wouldn't be surprised if in 10 years Johnson were waiting tables at Olive Garden.

Zach still has eight years before he starts passing out bowls for the bottomless salad, I guess.

Maybe the best thing about his win Sunday was that it came two weeks after he surrendered a two-shot lead in the final round of the Quail Hollow Championship and had an ugly 76 to tie for 11th. He got back on the horse, held on tightly, and hopped off a winner again.

He began Sunday two shots in front, but was a shot behind Paul Goydos with two holes to play. Goydos finished bogey-bogey. Johnson closed par-par, then went mano a mano with Driscoll.

Johnson is now 2-0 in Tour playoffs, having beaten Ryuji Imada to win the AT&T Classic two years ago.

Six wins is nothing to dismiss. Less than 25 active full-time Tour players have that many career wins, and all of them have been on the Tour longer than Johnson.

I'll have a post later tonight with comments from Johnson at his press conference.