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AT&T Byron Nelson 2017: 5 groups to watch in Rounds 1 & 2

By Luke Norris

May 27, 2016; Fort Worth, TX, USA; Jordan Spieth (right) and Matt Kuchar on the 10th hole during the second round of the 2016 Dean & Deluca Invitational at Colonial Country Club. Mandatory Credit: Erich Schlegel-USA TODAY Sports
May 27, 2016; Fort Worth, TX, USA; Jordan Spieth (right) and Matt Kuchar on the 10th hole during the second round of the 2016 Dean & Deluca Invitational at Colonial Country Club. Mandatory Credit: Erich Schlegel-USA TODAY Sports /
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Feb 23, 2017; Palm Beach Gardens, FL, USA; Cody Gribble hits his second shot on the sixteenth hole during the first round of The Honda Classic at PGA National (Champion). Mandatory Credit: Jason Getz-USA TODAY Sports
Feb 23, 2017; Palm Beach Gardens, FL, USA; Cody Gribble hits his second shot on the sixteenth hole during the first round of The Honda Classic at PGA National (Champion). Mandatory Credit: Jason Getz-USA TODAY Sports /

3. Cody Gribble, Dustin Johnson, Louis Oosthuizen

Round 1: 1st tee, 12:40 p.m. CT

Round 2: 10th tee, 7:40 a.m. CT

I’m betting you thought you’d see a picture of Louis Oosthuizen or world No. 1 Dustin Johnson here, didn’t you? But hey, don’t those guys have enough. Let world No. 217 Cody Gribble have the spotlight for just a minute.

Obviously, Gribble does look a little out of place in this group but that doesn’t mean the 26-year-old lefty can’t play. Sure, he’s struggled a bit recently, missing the weekend in seven of his last 10 events, but he does have a win under his belt, emerging victorious at the Sanderson Farms Championship and comes into the Byron Nelson with high hopes of getting that second win. He tied for 48th at THE PLAYERS.

Louis Oosthuizen didn’t quite have the finish he was looking for at TPC Sawgrass, shooting a pair of 73s on Saturday and Sunday to finish tied for second, three strokes behind winner Si Woo Kim, but his game has been solid. He’s made 19 consecutive cuts, not missing a weekend since last year’s Open Championship, and finished inside the top ten in six of those events and inside the top 25 on 12 occasions.

And then of course there’s the best player in the world, Dustin Johnson, who didn’t have his best game at THE PLAYERS but still managed a T-12 finish, which outside of a missed cut at the Farmers Insurance Open, is his lowest finish in 2017. He tied for sixth at the SBS Tournament of Champions, tied for second in Abu Dhabi, took solo third at Pebble Beach, won his next three tournaments and after unfortunately missing The Masters due to that freak injury, he came back to tie for second at the Wells Fargo Championship. DJ is still the best player in the world and has to be the favorite in any tournament he enters right now, including this one.

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