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The Latest: Willett will to take 'risk' to play at Olympics (The Associated Press)

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TROON, Scotland (AP) -- The Latest on the British Open (all times local):

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Masters champion Danny Willett says he's ''willing to take that little bit of risk'' and play at the Olympics because the likelihood of contracting the Zika virus is lessening every day.

Speaking a day after Jordan Spieth became the latest high-profile golfer to withdraw from the Rio de Janeiro Games, Willett says it's been a ''tough decision'' but that ''you don't know how many times you will be in the Olympics, if it will be in the Olympics again.