You realize the players are the Tour right? It appears that you don't have a basic grasp on some of the basics you keep pontificating about.

The players are independent contractors.

The caddies are independent contractors of the golfers.

The volunteers work under a separate entity.

All ostensibly operate under the auspices of the PGA Tour.

There is also the PGA Players Advisory Committee which is a quasi-union.

It is very loosely-knit compared to the NFL or NBA. Those players are under contract.

Complex.

Edit: I don’t know exactly how it works. Never sniffed the PGA. I got left behind on the local mini-tours which are equivalent to a poker tournament with the house taking a huge rake. If you don’t come in top 3, you lose money.

Who "threw their players into a tizzy"?

The PGA Tour announcing that golf was back just like before with the same prize money and number of tournaments. They were all excited. And I don’t think that many players were privy to the plans.

And just last week you had McIlroy borderline harassing Europeans that were concerned about traveling and losing World Points to qualify for tournaments.

You can keep poking away at me on details.

I have been steadfast this was a terrible plan and avoidable.

It sounds idiotic (risky) to travel from South Carolina to Hartford just to shoot a television show. Look how quickly they picked up a spot when a state turned them down. Matter of days to get Muirfield.

It was a very solemn press conference. They should have been having a conference celebrating their successful return instead of getting multiple questions of how long they plan to continue.

That's brutal for Chase to Monday qualify and now be out.

If I had an open sponsor's exemption in a later event I'd throw one his way.

I'm not sure what your agenda is. I do know that you're full of **** though.

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/golf...c1tftgmvr0f2jf

https://www.gamingtoday.com/race_spo...ce_amid_crisis

Webb Simpson out after a family member tests positive.

http://www.sports.yahoo.com/amphtml/...190832346.html

Come’on!!!

This isn’t starting to get ridiculous. It is ridiculous.

Every 15 minutes we are getting a new name!


***PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan held a press conference Wednesday to announce the positive tests and promise "serious repercussions" and consequences for any golfers who break the protocols in place for tournament events. He also said testing will be beefed up next week at the Rocket Mortgage Classic.***

Good job waiting until multiple players, caddies, and family members get it to start testing. Which won’t matter much anyway now.

If Slugger White is going to be the one enforcing the rules and handing out the consequences for breaking them, then you have cause to be concerned.

Why is Webb Simpson family member getting COVID the PGA fault?

Isnt the protocol working if Webb withdraws immediately without symptoms and without a positive test?

The real reason I think Webb may have withdrawn?

He has symptoms too. Everyone is better off with him withdrawing instead of another playing testing positive onsite. Graeme McDowell said he is experiencing symptoms too now.

And if the storyline is true? Players shouldn’t be traveling with their family members.

I find it slightly suspicious that Simpson would withdraw when he is onsite and the tournament starts tomorrow.

Link to him saying he has symptoms? I mean the symptom's for COVID are pretty wide ranging. I feel pretty sore and achy the morning after a 10k run. I think I'll go with the negative tests rather than what the player feels.

You've gone completely conspiracy theory now. All sports leagues are dealing with positive tests, it was inevitable with starting things back up and doing full scale testing even without symptoms and still not a lot of players have test positive.. Hopefully they are learning what protocols work and don't and we can keep golfing and other major sports can start playing ASAP.

I had no idea that golfnutt wrote for Golf Magazine. Huh.

*McDowell himself tested negative on Monday and has shown no symptoms. He felt slightly fatigued last week in Hilton Head but attributed that to resuming golf and the aftermath of a friend’s funeral.*

Whatever the ‘case’ may end up being, he didn’t stick around to get tested.

No, this was not inevitable three weeks into the tour. Well, perhaps if you go from Texas to SC to Connecticut with hundreds of different people over a course of a Gee weeks.

With literally zero testing. When I say testing, I mean you don’t go to the golf course unless you get negative results.

From today’s DFP


Dear lord. They’re not changing anything. By the time the tournament roles around it’s too late (see Watney)

Real shocker there.

What an unmitigated disaster. Commissioner should resign immediately. Complete embarrassment.

Sports Illustrated joining bandwagon of this was a colossal mistake today.

Joke all you want. This was an enormous mistake. This is devastating press. All around the world. You have sponsors associated with serious negative news.

Agree I'm not sure how people can still be saying that the PGA plan is adequate. The decision to travel all over the country goes against all health guidelines and common sense. Even MLB (which probably ain't gonna work either) is trying to reduce travel by scheduling games geographically.

That article is spot on, hyperbole about Keopka and Webb Simpson notwithstanding.

I really don't care what happens. I need my bread and circuses.

Right back at you for nailing this early. March 13. What turned out to be the beginning of hell.

This thread delivers quality analysis. Much better than the MSM.

This COVID crushed us. Tough enemy.

Was the tour restarted with the idea that no one would get this? Athletes are getting this everywhere and seasons havent started yet. They also all seem to be doing overwhelmingly well and it hasnt seemed close to life threatening in that population.

Again I maintain they are adults playing an individual sport. They are responsible enough to review the risks and make an informed decision whether or not they want to play in spite of the risks

Limited personal choice. There are quarantines.

They snuck in this week’s event a day before the 14-day quarantine went to into effect. How convenient.

Why put your players in the position of making a difficult choice? Find a better location. Limit travel. Play every other week.

This is terrible publicity for them. All avoidable. Tiger ain’t playing for ages.

You were wrong about no golf in 2020 and you'll be wrong about Tiger. Stick to pearl-clutching and not predictions imo.

Then why aren't the players speaking up and making a bigger deal out of it? It seems to bother you much more than it seems to bother them.

And at this point I dgaf if Tiger plays. Sports are back and I'm watching more golf than I have in my life, including Thursday and Friday.

It doesn’t bother me quite as much as it once did. We have basically given up in America.

What irks me is that they when they announced their return, they made a big production of how important the health and safety of their members was going to be.

With that in mind, they chose to crisscross the country and do no testing. Virtually ensuring multiple members would get the virus.

Every other sports league is trying to avoid travel at all costs and will institute strict testing.

The PGA does whatever they want. They don’t care at all. The position they find themselves was avoidable.

Let’s see how the players and caddies come back.

It doesn’t bother me quite as much as it once did. We have basically given up in America.

What irks me is that they when they announced their return, they made a big production of how important the health and safety of their members was going to be.

With that in mind, they chose to crisscross the country and do no testing. Virtually ensuring multiple members would get the virus.

Every other sports league is trying to avoid travel at all costs and will institute strict testing.

The PGA does whatever they want. They don’t care at all. The position they find themselves was avoidable.

Let’s see how the players and caddies come back.