Dustin Johnson to skip postponed Tokyo Olympics, states concentrate on PGA Tour events

PONTE VEDRA Beach front, Fla. – No. 1-rated Dustin Johnson reported Saturday he will not take part in the men’s Olympic golf event in Tokyo this summer time.

Citing the hectic plan that surrounds this year’s Summer months Games, postponed from 2020 for the reason that of the coronavirus pandemic, Johnson — the reigning FedEx Cup champion — explained he prefers to concentrate on the PGA Tour.

“It is really right in the middle of a major extend of golfing for me, so that was the purpose I was variety of waffling on it a tiny little bit,” Johnson explained from the Gamers Championship, wherever he is out of rivalry. “It is a very long way to travel, and I assume the WGC (Entire world Golf Championship occasion) is the 7 days suitable right after it. The British is a few weeks prior to.

“It is really a great deal of touring at a time in which it is really critical to experience like I am centered actively playing on the PGA Tour.”

Johnson is the to start with American to announce he will not compete in the Olympics, which will acquire two players for each country — but up to four for any country that that has gamers rated among the leading 15 in the planet at the conclusion of the U.S. Open. There are presently 11 People in america ranked in the top rated 15.

The Open at Royal St. George’s in Sandwich, England, is scheduled to close July 18, with the men’s Olympic golfing match beginning just 11 times afterwards, on July 29, and concluding on Aug. 1. The WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational in Memphis, Tennessee, is scheduled to start times later, on Aug. 5.

Two months afterwards, the 3-match FedEx Cup playoffs start off. The Ryder Cup, like the Olympics, was also postponed to 2021 since of the pandemic.

“I feel if there was a small extra time, especially if you weren’t hoping to fly appropriate from Tokyo to Memphis and enjoy the WGC, I certainly would have assumed about it a great deal extra,” Johnson claimed. “It was a lot more a tiny extra room between there for absolutely sure.”

Johnson, who will defend his Masters title future thirty day period, had also resolved very last yr not to compete in the 2020 Olympics, prior to the postponement.