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Jason Day is the defending champion at the US Open  2017 Live Stream  Players, so he’s obviously a huge threat this year. While day hasn’t won a tournament since that title, he also admitted he was dealing with burnout and his mother’s cancer treatment, per Iain Strachan of the Sporting News:

 

“For a moment there after I lost my number one world ranking, I kind of lost the desire to be there, and I think it was just because I was mentally burnt out from everything that had gone on. With what had happened earlier this year with some off-course stuff, my mind was kind of elsewhere, as you probably could imagine… [but] finally I can kind of take a breath and sit back and go, OK, I need to kind of start my trip back to up the mountain again. What I’m trying to focus on is getting back to that winning form, getting back to the workload that I was doing and the practice and the work ethic, and hopefully the results will come after that.”

Of course, nobody is playing better golf than current world No. 1 and US Open 2017 winner Dustin Johnson. He took that distinction from Day, who took it from Spieth after his epic 2015 season, who in turn took it from Rory McIlroy after he was golf’s top player in 2014.

So any conversation about the Players inevitably revolves around those four talents. The conversation in golf, generally speaking, revolves around them as well.

Johnson and McIlroy—along with Justin Thompson—will form the most star-studded group to start play at TPC Sawgrass. One thing is for sure: No matter what the moment is or who the opponent, don’t expect Johnson’s demeanor to change or his pulse to quicken.

“It’s beating—not very fast,” he said of that pulse, per the Associated Press (via USA Today). “Sometimes it gets going pretty good. It just depends if I’m walking up a steep hill or something.”

Spieth, meanwhile, has an AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am win under his belt this year, but his performance at the Masters—he finished 11th overall—left a bit to be desired for the 2015 winner, who also finished tied for second in 2014 and 2016.

A strong performance from Spieth could get him back on the dominant track he showed during the 2015 season.And then there’s Sergio Garcia—this year’s Masters winner—who should also have a say at the Players. And you can never discount players like Phil Mickelson, Rickie Fowler or Patrick Reed. Don’t sleep on Jon Rahm, either.

But the safe money is probably on a player from the foursome of Johnson, Day, Spieth or McIlroy. They’ve been the four pillars of golf over the past three seasons, and it would hardly be surprising if one of them emerged victorious this weekend.US Open Golf 2017 Live Si Woo Kim won The Players Championship.

Notes: The field is particularly strong this year with four of the top six in the world — Dustin Johnson, Jason Day, Sergio Garcia and Jordan Spieth. … Garcia will try to become only the fourth back-to-back winner since the tournament began in 1944, and the first since Tom Watson in 1980. The other successful title defenses belonged to Jack Nicklaus (1970-71) and Sam Snead (1957-58). … Spieth’s best finish in his hometown event was a tie for 16th in 2010,

when he was a 16-year-old in high school. … The tournament is leaving the TPC Four Seasons Resort next year for Trinity Forest, which was designed by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw. … The top 60 in the world after this week receive an exemption into the U.S. Open. Two weeks remain before the top 50 are exempt to the British Open. … Garcia’s two victories at the Byron Nelson were in playoffs, against Robert Damron in 2004 and against Brooks Koepka last year.Many golfers walked away from Wednesday’s U.S. Open Local Qualifier at Wildwood Golf Club grumbling about how tough the conditions were.

Allison Park’s Mike Wickett was among that group.Wickett, a member and former club champion at Wildwood, and Pittsburgh’s Kevin Shields shot 3-over-par 74. The dream is to reach the U.S. Open on June 12-18 Erin Hills Country Club in Wisconsin.

The first alternate was Yardley’s    Joseph Gunerman, who is headed to Q-school in China. The second alternate went to McKees Rocks’ Mike Van Sickle, who defeated Wexford’s Gene Walters, Wexford’s Beau Titsworth and Irving, Texas’, Austin Connelly in a playoff.

Wickett, 48, works New York Life Insurance. The Sioux Falls, S.D., native has lived in Pittsburgh for the past 20 years. He played golf at South Dakota State.

“Course knowledge helped me a lot,” Wickett said. “The greens are tough, and knowing them made it easier for me. To play well here, you have to keep the ball in the fairway and below the hole.”

Wickett had three birdies (Nos. 5, 7 and 16) and six bogies (Nos. 2, 8, 11, 14, 15 and 18). He called the bogey on the final hole a good one. He made a 9-foot putt after his drive missed the fairway and his third shot spun off the green.

“When I chipped in for birdie on No. 7, I said to myself I had a chance,” Wickett said. “This was my first attempt at trying to qualify for the US Open  2017 Live I thought this is the day that you can do something you’ve never done before.”