Bryson DeChambeau Checks Optimistic For COVID-19, Out Of Tokyo Olympics

Bryson DeChambeau gained’t be competing on the Tokyo Olympics after testing positive 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 Workforce 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 crew. I want Workforce USA the very best of luck subsequent week in Tokyo. I’ll now give attention to getting wholesome, and I look ahead to returning to competitors as soon as I’m cleared to take action.”

Patrick Reed, who represented america on the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro however didn’t medal, will take his place on Workforce USA and spend the weekend present process testing protocol. He’s at the moment ranked thirteenth within the World Golf Ranking, seven spots behind DeChambeau.

Reed will be a part of the remainder of the boys’s crew — Justin Thomas, Collin Morikawa and Xander Schauffele — for the primary spherical of males’s golf competitors Thursday.

Sadly, DeChambeau isn’t the primary Workforce USA athlete compelled to tug out of the Video games because of the virus. Bradley Beal isn’t taking part in with the boys’s basketball crew after coming into well being and security protocols, and ladies’s gymnastics alternate Kara Eaker examined constructive Monday.