Top-ranked Dustin Johnson said Saturday that travel issues around golf tour events have prompted him to opt out of consideration for the US squad to compete at the Tokyo Olympics. "It's a lot of traveling at a time where it's important for me to feel like I'm focused playing on the PGA Tour," Johnson said after Saturday's third round of the US PGA Tour's Players Championship. 

The reigning Masters champion said last year he would not have played in the Japan Games had they been staged as planned in 2020 because he was making the US PGA's playoffs a priority and those events began two weeks after the Olympics. The Olympics was postponed to this July and Johnson won last year's FedEx Cup playoff crown to achieve that career goal. But this time, Johnson doesn't like the July 29-August 1 Olympic tournament being so close to the British Open, set for July 15-18 at England's Royal St. George's, and the WGC St. Jude Invitational in Memphis August 5-8.