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Dustin Johnson shoots 66, shares early lead at Players

May 11, 2018 04:10·
Dustin Johnson tops the rankings ahead of The Players Championship

Dustin Johnson tops the rankings ahead of The Players Championship

Johnson boasts a terrific record around this week's venue, the TPC Sawgrass, where he has made 12 cuts in 13 visits. Among the 21, Dustin Johnson, the world's No. 1-ranked player, Webb Simpson, ranked No. 41 in the world, and 18th-ranked Alex Noren all shot opening round 6-under 66s to share the early lead. The course is in immaculate shape, and it's going to firm up as the week goes on. I'm going to still go back next week and try to get it back. "It's fun to play golf courses that are this well-kept".

"You've got four par-5s-given the right wind, even I can get to all four of them".

Starting at the 10th, some 20 minutes apart, Simpson and world number one Johnson got things rolling quickly. You can quickly make a big number. "I mean, I like being No. 1, so I want to stay there". The Korean, who is attempting to become the first player to repeat as Players champion, was tied at 5-under along with American Keith Mitchell, South Africa's Rory Sabbatini and Venezuela's Jhonattan Vegas.

Johnson however can prevent that outcome if he manages to finish 10th or higher.

I've never hit so many good putts I thought were going in that didn't. "I've been using the Spider for the previous year or so and this was kind of in between".

Four players have a chance to surpass Johnson for No. 1 this week.

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Kim, meanwhile, reached seven-under after 16 holes, but ran up two straight bogeys as he got a late case of the hooks.

Johnson, who has held the No. 1 ranking for 15 months, can lose his spot atop the rankings if one of four players wins here this week: Justin Thomas, Jon Rahm, Jordan Spieth and Justin Rose.

"So, this week if I play really well I'll still be number one". "Not that I was going to tell them if they were right or wrong, but I just wanted to see what they have come up with".

"Yeah, I'm definitely surprised, but I think a lot of it has to do with putting, " Johnson said.

Temperatures at the Stadium Course were in the upper 70s and low 80s most of the morning and the breeze out of the east didn't impact the play. Casey's withdraw left 49 of the top 50 players in the field, meaning the 2016 U.S. Open is still the most recent tournament to feature the full top 50. He aggravated the injury on the driving range Wednesday when a golf cart drove in front of him, forcing Koepka to check his swing.

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