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IT’S ALL COMING up Dustin!

The American golfer Dustin Johnson captured the PGA Tour’s season opener overnight.

And today it emerges he’s seeing the high-profile daughter of ice hockey legend Wayne Gretzky.
Golf.com reporter Alan Shipnuck reported on the 36-hole lollapalooza in Hawaii and added this little tidbit:

“If the laid-back Johnson looked strangely comfortable on the Plantation Course it comes from the extra time he’s spent here. Needing to break in new irons and a new driver, Johnson arrived early and played six practice rounds. (That also allowed him to spend some quality time with his new squeeze Paulina Gretzky.)”

Well, that’s news to us. Paulina is in fact vacationing in Hawaii right now, she keeps us up to date on her whereabouts on her infamous Instagram and earlier posted a photo of a rainbow over Hawaii:

And she’s been there for a while, she posted a photo of herself in a bikini captioned “Aloha” a week ago, probably while she and Johnson were spending some quality time before the event. GolfDigest.com is also reporting that Gretzky was present and followed Johnson as he golfed the course.

There are no photos of the couple together yet, but we assume Paulina will post one on her Instagram any day now. An example from Paulina’s Instagram…

Paulina Gretzky/Twitter

And Dustin golfing…

Pic: AP Images

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