How The PGA Tour Plans To Keep Its Players Safe During Tournament Weeks
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- Category: Inside Golf
- Published: 2020-05-13
By ZEPHYR MELTON, Golf.com
The PGA Tour will test for the coronavirus multiple times during tournament weeks, house players in a single hotel, and comply with social distancing, as it looks to resume play in a month, according to the Tour’s new “Health and Safety Plan.”
The report from Golf Channel says that the Tour’s chief operations officer Tyler Dennis sent a memo to players outlining the plans for when play resumes June 11 at Colonial.
The memo comes on the heels of Memorial Tournament director Dan Sullivan sharing some of the protocols that his tournament will utilize this summer, such as limited spectator capacity, spectator tracking through RFID in tournament badges, and the absence of grandstands.
“At any time we can know, around the golf course, how many people are collecting in a certain area,” Sullivan said. “We’re considering every venue to be very much like a restaurant or bar … We’re going to manage as the state has mandated at that time.”