News of the PGA Tour’s revised, post-COVID-19 hiatus schedule elicited a common response from many golf fans: when will we next see Tiger Woods compete?
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.
As golf’s various stakeholders – the PGA Tour, European Tour and LPGA Tour, Augusta National, the PGA of America, the USGA and the R&A – cancel and postpone their own events and explore potential alternative dates, all are working with the assumption that the Olympics would go on as scheduled.
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.
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