You could see he didn’t go hard after that, clearly his lack of touch on the greens is starting to show itself again.
Smoked it... and a little luck...
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DJ drives # 6 on Friday and was a little long leading to a 3 putt. It's obvious he put more emphasis on where to leave the approach shot in the OP's video to improve his scoring....
http://golfweek.com/2018/01/06/dustin-johnson-nearly-makes-hole-in-one-at-382-yard-par-4/
I've dreamed about making a big catch in the World Series or Superbowl, and of bowling a 300 game, or a last round knockout in a middle weight title fight. All things that at one time I was at least physically able to do even though I never wanted to do the work to get to those situations. I can't even dream of driving a hole that long no matter how much downhill or downwind. Might as well dream that I'm making a Michael Jordan dunk from the free throw line.
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In a men's Open tourney a few years back a youngish lad in the group a couple behind me made an ace on a 358 yard straightaway par 4. It was an incredible feat not just because of the length of the hole ( there was a slight tail wind) but because the green on this hole runs on a diagnal from from left to back right , is severly sloped uphill to a crest 2/3 up then downhill with side slope from there. Pin was in back left corner . He won a healthy 5-6 hundred dollar skin for the feat.
On the same course a few years earlier i came within 18 or so inches ( i think it gets closer each time i tell the story) of an ace on another par 4 , this one only 301 yards but requires you to fly the ball onto the surface as you cant run it up. That eagle netted me a $700 skin. Nit quite the million$ DJ won yesterday 
I saw the highlight today, as he’s walking up the fairway, he says “ caught it a little thin, left it short”. He might be my new favorite golfer just based on that Hahahaha.
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ZWExton He was playing the M4 at 9.5, if it were only 9.
My SIL once drove a 300yd par 4 that had a slight dog-leg left. It was his first time on that course. We could not see the shot result due to the dog leg, but I knew it was going to be good. We found his ball about 3 inches from the cup for a nice tap-in eagle. That was fun to watch. I told my daughter that if she ever broke up with him, I was keeping him. 
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The 12th at Kapalua has always been drivable by the longer hitters, depending on the wind. The hole plays about 50-60 yards shorter on a calm day, given the topography of the hole. Add a helping wind and it plays more like 350-360 yards. Which nevertheless is impressive, mind you...
Bubba's shot on his 2nd shot @ 18, with his second shot with driver off the deck from 305 yards, leading to eagle back in 2011 was a wee bit more impressive imo.
Yes, these guys are good. Especially if they have the luxury of a 6-7 shot lead and don't have to fret over a perchance bogey if their aggressiveness is penalized.
Dear Heaven, if I could only do that on a few of my second shots!
Not enough club.
Provisional Why would you want to hit driver off the tee on your 2nd shot? 
Well,
Pause (old Jack Benny routine)
I really miss seeing my ball roll into a green on a 440 yd parr 5 second shot and I can't hit my driver off the deck too good...yet...
Distance is the second thing to go with aging.
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I hit a drive on #18 today that went 302 yards. The fact that we had a 20 plus mph wind behind us and it hit the cart path may have had a little to do with it also. Longest drive I've ever had on that hole or any other hole for that matter. Not bad for a 90 mph swing speed.
It was 362 yards and I had 60 yards to the middle of the green. Of course I nutted my 60 degree wedge that flew the green and proceeded to get a bogey 5. 
Sneakylong
They should start playing a soulful violin melody for us when we do this .
Like the one played for calling the monster in "Young Frankenstein".
If so, I'd hear a lot of them .