This week’s one-time visit to Muirfield Village Golf Club for the Workday Charity Open should not be considered in any manner a warm-up for the annual Memorial Tournament that promptly follows.
For the week, DeChambeau ranked first in distance, hit the longest drive of the week and picked up nearly six strokes on the field in strokes gained/off the tee, also ranking first.
With the PGA Tour a month into the resumption of its season after hitting pause because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the 23-year-old Norwegian has kept on driving, from one tour stop to the next.
In the aftermath of Watney being present at the golf course while he waited for his ultimately positive test, the PGA Tour changed its policy as of Saturday at the Travelers Championship.
Reigning champion Matt Jones is unlikely to return to defend his Australian Open title for the second time in his career as the PGA Tour deals with a second positive test to coronavirus.
After receiving a negative result on a COVID-19 test that he requested Saturday morning, Jason Day played the third round of the Travelers Championship as a single as a precautionary measure.