After a five-month PGA Tour layoff, Woods will try to adjust to competing without his usual throng of spectators at the Memorial Tournament this weekend. “It’s just a silent and different world.”
The organizers of four upcoming tournaments announced on Monday that they would hold those events without spectators.
Morikawa made up a three-shot deficit on the final three holes in regulation and beat fifth-ranked Justin Thomas in a three-hole playoff to win the Workday Charity Open.
A handful of companies and labs quickly overhauled themselves to fulfill the sudden demand for coronavirus testing from the major American pro leagues.
Missing a short putt worth hundreds of thousands of dollars is a golfer’s nightmare, but PGA Tour veterans have ways of psyching themselves up to try anyway.
Many of the world’s top golfers had objected to holding the tournament without fans, threatening to drop out of the biennial event if it was not postponed.
The event, held Aug. 20 to 23 at the Royal Troon in Scotland, will be the first women’s major tournament of 2020.
The event had the approval of state and local officials to host a limited capacity of spectators when it opens in Dublin, Ohio, on July 16, but scrapped those plans citing rising Covid-19 cases.
DeChambeau shot 7-under in the final round, using his long drives to erase a three-stroke lead by Wolff at the start of play Sunday.
Sahith Theegala is starting his PGA Tour career just as the coronavirus infiltrated pro golf’s caravan.
A stopgap budget with $4 billion in cuts also includes an opening for private development in state parks, like a long-desired expansion of a golf course into Liberty State Park.
Johnson shot a career low 61 on Saturday and held on late Sunday to stretch his tour wins streak to 13 consecutive seasons.
Tour officials sent golfers a health tracking device and expanded testing protocols as eight golfers pulled out of the Travelers Championship because of positive tests for the coronavirus.
DeChambeau gained 40 pounds and is now routinely hitting drives 50 yards past the competition. “I have to chase down the most scientifically efficient way to get the golf ball in the hole.”
Men’s golf’s first major tournament of the year will be held Aug. 6 to 9 at San Francisco’s T.P.C. Harding Park. After initially expressing pessimism, California health officials approved the plan.
After a three-hour storm delay, Simpson ran off five birdies in a six-hole stretch on the back nine for a one-shot victory over Abraham Ancer.
Nick Watney is the first golfer, caddie or tour official to test positive. Nearly 1,000 tests have been administered for the virus since the PGA Tour returned last week.
PVC pipe, cardboard boxes, even bobblehead dolls can all be part of a backyard nine.
“If I was living in America,” one England-based player said, “I’d be playing right now.”
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