That didn’t take long.
On Friday, the PGA Tour announced that Nick Watney has tested positive for COVID-19.
Watney missed the cut last week at Colonial and did not fly to Hilton Head on the tour’s charter flight. He played on Thursday and shot a first round 74. On Friday, he woke with symptoms consistent with the virus. After consulting a physician and undergoing another test, he was found to be positive. He withdrew from the RSM Classic.
The Tour will now do contact tracing for anyone who was in contact with Watney, including his first round playing partners — Luke List and Vaughn Taylor.
Watney will now be required to self-isolate for a minimum of 10 days. He lives in Las Vegas so it’s not feasible for him to drive home.
Watney is the first PGA Tour player to test positive. One Korn Ferry Tour player tested positive two weeks ago along with three caddies on that tour. This week, only two caddies on the KFT tested positive.
Tiger Woods Passes On The Travelers:
The deadline for next week’s Travelers event in Cromwell, Connecticut, came and went and once again, Tiger Woods is staying at home.
Wood is expected to remain idle until the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village on July 16.
Still, the Travelers will have a good field that includes the top seven players in the world. Pat Cantlay, who didn’t play in either of the two opening events, will play next week.
5 Comments
baxter cepeda
Lol. Toms June 15 article
“pGA Tour safety protocol proves itself at CS Challenge”
Is still on the most popular list on this page.
Who knows whom and what Watney contacted?
Next headline:
Now we begin to see the pga tourS safety protocol has a long way to prove itself.
Tom Edrington
One guy is not need to throw water on the protocol; Look at the other sports that haven’t even started — Clemson University, MLB, and so on…..
baxter cepeda
I’m looking at them no different.
It’s rushed. Watney spent 2 days around the site, almost a full day after feeling sick enough to get a test. Lerner mentioned they need to look at that, which they obviously do.
If a player is feeling anything, they must withdraw. There is no way the tours protocols can be considered good with guys playing and left icing an extra day just in case they are negative. Seems pretty dumb really.
Tom Edrington
Justin Thomas refutes you, says he feels totally safe with Tour protocols.
baxter cepeda
That is my golfer (if tiger out)
But he is also 27. Im becoming a Man this week; I’m 40!
Of course they feel safe. I’m going to courses for $0-50 per hour. I would run to the safety of a golf course for a chance to win 1.5$ mill.
And I don’t run much these days.