Though both men said they’d been discussing the move for a while, the inevitable was accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, with Rose living in the Bahamas and Foley based in Orlando, Florida.
How will this affect those from Europe and others unable to tee it up for the foreseeable future? Like everything else in the new normal, time will tell.
Brooks Koepka has already made his feelings known about the idea of September’s Ryder Cup being held without fans. He doesn’t like it. Thursday, he took things a step further.
PGA Tour officials have offered further details on their health and safety plans with a 34-page “Participant Resource Guide”, which was sent to players overnight.
The John Deere was scheduled to be the fifth tournament on the revamped PGA Tour calendar, but the first one that might have potentially allowed fans to attend.
The resumption of the PGA Tour’s season is still two weeks away, but players are already being reminded of steps they’ll need to take and the new normal in a COVID-19 world.
Holding a Ryder Cup without spectators, however, would eliminate one of the central elements of the biennial competition, a fact that isn’t lost on organisers.
Chief among the plan’s tenets is that COVID-19 testing will be required of players as a condition of competition, similar to that of the organisation’s drug policy.
The PGA Tour announced its plans to resume the 2019-’20 season on June 11-14 at the Charles Schwab Challenge – without fans in attendance – while also unveiling a re-configured tournament schedule for the remainder of 2020 in the wake of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
As the tour looks to follow health and safety guidelines set by government and health officials, upcoming tournaments are expected to be played without spectators.
So what happens when the music stops, the big top folds up and no one is certain when the show will go on? Answers vary, depending on who you are and what you do.
Cowen, who was at the Players Championship working alongside his stable of players 11 days ago, said he believes he picked up the coronavirus on his flight home to England.
The new tournaments now to be cancelled include the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town in South Carolina, the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, and the Byron Nelson in Dallas.
One by one, players made their way into the clubhouse at TPC Sawgrass on Friday morning. Many arrived dressed in shorts and t-shirts or hoodies and thongs, to pack their bags, uncertain of what lay ahead
The 32-year-old Aussie, who shot a four-over 76 in the opening round of the Players Championship, played for the first time since withdrawing from last week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational
As more sports leagues and events began to shut down amid growing coronavirus concerns, it became apparent, however, that the PGA Tour might soon follow suit.
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