Official word last week was that the playing of the 2020 Masters was “postponed.”
Note, “postponed” as opposed to “cancelled.”
The owners of those wonderful Green Jackets kept things a bit positive, hoping by some miracle that there could be a Masters staged next fall.
Jack Nicklaus doesn’t believe that will happen.
We’re with Jack.
Augusta is at it’s beauty peak in April. It closes not long after The Masters, typically in May. The club doesn’t re-open until October, typically.
They spent those four months making changes to the course, they undertake construction projects and spent the time getting ready for the tournament in April.
Can anyone vision a Masters in October or November? It would be really, really tough in the fall of 2020.
This is a Summer Olympic year. It’s also a Ryder Cup year. Then throw in the PGA Tour’s “cross-over” season that now occupies most of October and November.
Augusta National said the “postponement” puts them in position to perhaps host the Masters “at some later date.” Fall is the only remote possibility.
Nicklaus can’t see it happening.
“In all practicality, they are postponing, but I can’t see any way they would play it at a later date,” Jack said last week. “How in the world could they work it into the schedule? It wouldn’t be fair to any other tournaments that are later. I think we are probably going to miss the Masters this year, that’s just my opinion, but I think it makes logical sense.”
We totally agree with Jack.
The calendar is too crowded and right now, things are so very uncertain moving forward.
At this point, it’s tough to see what the 2020 PGA Tour season is really going to look like.
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baxter cepeda
I do not want to disagree with Jack, especially since he is a member there, but I have to. If nothing else I need the hope.
A lot of golf geeks want to see The Masters played in a unique way in this unique year; we will take a sans green Masters. We will take any Masters.
As for the schedule, Augusta has one week on the schedule, Masters week. It is not Augusta Nationals problem that the pga tour saturates the calendar with event after event, all of which are built on the backs of the Masters and the other majors.
Monahan is a good man but the concern is that he has not shown the biggest ability to recognize the big picture.Hopefully he can see the big picture moving forward. Once life resumes Fans want to see the Masters above all else.
The tour will need to find a way to facilitate the Masters, the Olympics and the other 3 majors. If the tour plays hard ball with these events the tour would lose.
If the tour did not saturate the schedule with regular events, maybe fans would long to see pga tour events. But at this point most pga tour events are a dime a dozen, while those other events are not simply because there is only one of each of them.
This will be a tough year for golf fans, but it would be a whole lot better if we could just somehow someway get our majors in, especially the Masters, whenever that may be.
I for one need that hope everyone in golf will work together to make it happen.
Tom Edrington
At this point, Baxter, seems like the world is in a holding pattern…..