Jason Day cleared to play in Sunday’s U.S. Open finale

Jason Day’s medical team gave the 54-hole co-leader of the U.S. Open the go-ahead to tee it up in Sunday’s final round at Chambers Bay

Doctors went to the on-site motor home Day and his wife are staying in this week and performed a procedure on the golfer, according to Golf Channel’s Steve Sands. The move had Day feeling better, though “not 100 percent,” Sands said.

Day collapsed on the course during Friday’s second round with severe vertigo and gutted his way to a third-round 2-under 68 to attain a share of the four-way lead heading into Sunday’s finale.

The procedure Day underwent was likely the Epley Maneuver, which is used to treat sufferers of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, the diagnosis doctors have given for the three-time PGA Tour winner’s problem. It is not a serious condition, though it can debilitate sufferers, who have the sensation for several seconds that the world is spinning and for whom bending down or turning the head can be an excruciating experience.

The Epley maneuver, which involves several separate head movements, works by using gravity to put free-floating particles, or crystals, in the inner ear back in place.

Day has a 3 p.m. PT tee time with Dustin Johnson in the final pairing of Sunday’s final round. If he should not be able to start, DJ would likely play with a marker, but if Day has to withdraw sometime during the round, Johnson would probably continue on his own.