The PGA Tour has abandoned its proposed May restart at The Colonial.
Now the Tour is looking towards June and hoping that there will be a major turn in the Corona Virus battle.
With the NBA, NFL and Major League Baseball on hold, golf is the first professional sport with a restart date.
Will the Tour be able to stage The Memorial at Jack’s place in 71 days? If you listen to the news, that seems like a pipe-dream.
With the Open Championship cancelled and the other three majors announcing their tentative dates, the Tour is pondering what things will look like this summer and how they’ll affect the FedEx Cup playoffs, which are now scheduled to start in August and end with the final round of the Tour Championship on Labor Day — Monday, September 7.
The Tour has to be considering the possibility of playing its events with few to no spectators on site and very few volunteers.
One reason the Tour has prospered through the years is that its business model is built around free labor — basically the hundreds of people who show up and work the events at no cost to the Tour. Many of them are retirees over the age of 60 and they fall into that “most vulnerable” category of the Corona Virus pandemic.
Some have called the Tour’s plan “irresponsible.”
At best it may be wishful thinking.
Tour events will also be subject to rulings by the Governors of the various states where the events will be played. If a particular Governor says “no'” — then the Tour is spit-out-of-luck.
Stay tuned and good luck to The Sheriff Of Nottingham (aka Tour commish Jay Monahan) and his Band Of Sinister Henchmen.
They’ll need it.
2 Comments
baxter cepeda
It’s definitely wishful but again, there’s is some credibility since they are getting information from Augusta National and the White House.
The pga tour was a bit slow to initially catch on so there is reason to believe Ponte Vedra could be too aggressive to return.
Imo There no harm to reschedule the tour aggressively so long as they learned its lesson: If needed To postpone or cancel in the most timely, responsible, fashion possible.
Tom Edrington
Things change day-to-day with the COVID fight; The markets are telling me there’s more light emerging from the other end of the tunnel.