Bryson DeChambeau will not be competing on the Tokyo Olympics after testing optimistic for COVID-19.
USA Golf introduced the information Saturday night time.
“I’m deeply disillusioned not to have the ability to compete within the Olympics for Group USA,” DeChambeau mentioned in an announcement from the PGA. “Representing my nation means the world to me and it’s was an amazing honor to make this workforce. I want Group USA the perfect of luck subsequent week in Tokyo. I’ll now deal with getting wholesome, and I sit up for returning to competitors as soon as I’m cleared to take action.”
Patrick Reed, who represented the USA on the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro however didn’t medal, will take his place on Group USA and spend the weekend present process testing protocol. He’s at present ranked thirteenth within the World Golf Rating, seven spots behind DeChambeau.
Reed will be part of the remainder of the boys’s workforce — Justin Thomas, Collin Morikawa and Xander Schauffele — for the primary spherical of males’s golf competitors Thursday.
Sadly, DeChambeau is not the primary Group USA athlete pressured to drag out of the Video games because of the virus. Bradley Beal is not taking part in with the boys’s basketball workforce after coming into well being and security protocols, and ladies’s gymnastics alternate Kara Eaker examined optimistic Monday.
