Excellent points Revot33.

I don’t think the Champions Tour would be able to sustain what is going on with the PGA Tour.

That is one group that should not be traveling extensively.

The PGA Tour is extremely cagey with details regarding how their players contracted the virus. My hunch is that it is from their travel and not any ‘mistakes’ in the bubble. I think they’re getting it indoors.

Now I could be wildly wrong and it is from touching shared equipment like rakes and flagsticks.

We still know very little how it is transferred.

Edit: Yes, Booker I’m totally in agreement of let them play. I’m playing golf today. Traveling all of 20 minutes in my car and having a cart to myself.

LOL sense of smell. We aren't shutting down the world because a few people are losing their sense of smell. This isn't deadly to peak athletes. It's the responsibility to stay away from grandma sure. But acting like the plague has been unleashed on the PGA tour when a bunch of completely asymptomatic dudes test positive (and in once case test negative 3x immediately thereafter) or a dude with mild symptoms tests positive is insane hyperbole. This isn't the at risk demographic. I'm all for precautions but it's so overblown in this population at this point

125,000 folks in the USA dead in 5 months and your at 50,000 cases today and daily deaths are climbing. Though I agree of all the sports that can continue the PGA is one. I think even the Champions Tour cou players are in the 50-60 age range and many are fit.
Team sports are screwed as is the USA

I don’t get it why you would say the NFL isn’t coming back coupled with your statements that the virus isn’t that big of a deal.

And for the vast majority of younger people, it does appear to be just like the flu.

I don’t think a multi-billion dollar business is going to stop. If the PGA can plow through, I would think football would as well.

My only beef with the PGA is their locations and travel. They made this a far bigger issue. They should be playing in places that are far safer than South Carolina.

Just isolate players and do constant testing. No professional athlete is at risk of death. Start playing, keep testing and quarantining. As time goes on leagues, teams and players will learn what works. The world needs pro sports, people can't just sit around forever. Either accept that there are going to be positive tests or sit around and do nothing .

But LOL at thinking pro golfers should play for millions without a caddy and carrying their own bag.

I think both those things but with the insane melt down over completely healthy peak athletes asymptomatically testing positive while just having to play golf then lol at any team sports happening in the future or fans ever coming back.

Of course I think this is ridiculous but given the reactions from people like you team sports have 0 chance of happening. The virus is never going away. Ever.

Thoughts and prayers shout-out to Chad Campbell.

May you be as fortunate as Rudi Gobert and lose the least important of the five senses

I am creating a new thread for the discussion of Covid and the PGA Tour. Old posts on this topic will be moved from the PGA Tour thread into this new thread. All discussions of Covid & the PGA Tour belong in this thread.

Looks like 3 players on the Korn Ferry Tour have tested positive this week in addition to Chad Campbell from the PGA Tour.

I am just not sure how long they will keep this traveling roadshow going. I think, honestly, it depends on if the positive tests keep coming in drips and drabs. If they have a single week with say a dozen or more positives on the PGA tour, there will be a lot more discussion of shutting it down. Hopefully that won't happen but with all the travel by air, different cities etc., I will not be surprised if it does.

I also think fans back at any events in 2020 is a complete fantasy at this point.

lol, just noted that I'm credited with the OP of this ongoing shitshow of a thread. Guess I won't be unsubscribing.

I mean, feel free. COVID impacts all areas of life including pro sports. It's a legit topic. I'm sure the NFL, NBA, and MLB threads will also talk about the impact of the pandemic on the players and the leagues.

It's funny that people get so pissed off when real life interferes with their entertainment. These aren't regular times we're living in.

It was a forum software joke, sorry that wasn’t more clear.

And it is a topic worthy of discussion, just not with golfnutt. {appropriate emoji goes here}

Ah, my apologies if I misunderstood your meaning.

I do think golfnutt is both right in principle regarding the holes in the PGA's plan, as well as being perhaps a bit overboard regarding the long-term impact on the players themselves. But preventing spread of the virus is on everyone, even young healthy athletes who have little to fear themselves.

The PGA Tour has done a ‘great’ job normalizing a player getting the virus. It has happened so frequently that it isn’t big news anymore.

Very curious to see if they do have fans at the Memorial. I haven’t heard it called off yet.

And when we get to the Majors. That would put a serious asterisk on it if a bunch of players couldn’t play. Or Tiger doesn’t show.

I think a lot depends on how/if players recover.

If Tiger is healthy I'd say it's 0% he doesn't play a major.

‘Confident Webb Simpson says 'safest place anyone can be in the United States right now is on the PGA Tour'

http://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/...3fplatform=amp

Lololol.

Glad to know this info clown boy.

Traveling from Dallas to SC to Conn to Detroit is the safest thing one can do during a pandemic.

Fake bubbles. A player a day testing positive.

Who tf did they think they’re fooling?!

Cameron Champ in the field after two negative tests and a rule change.

Well, not everyone on the Tour can be a mad scientist like Mickelson or deChambeau.

Odd.

Same with Webb “the PGA Tour is the safest play to be” Simpson’s daughter.

Tested positive then negative twice. Allegedly.

I’ll bet a lot of money there are a lot more players that have tested positive than the Tour admits.


If you test positive at home, they don’t have to report it the media as a withdrawal. You just don’t show up to the tournament.

Scammers

Lol so Webb wasnt even positive but his daughter had a fake positive? Oops

Love how this is exposing the hyperbole of positive COVID tests. PGA GOAT

God is his co-pilot. Can't get any safer than that.

Charlie Rymer on being hospitalized with COVID-19: 'Very scary'

https://www.golfchannel.com/news/cha...-19-very-scary

Read this and tell me what they are doing is wise. And the health and safety of their members is their highest priority.

They exponentially increased risk with this crazy travel schedule. And the litany of players getting it is proof. Lol at creating bubbles in pandemic hotspots with zero testing for three weeks and thinking that was ok.

What’s their stipend if a player dies?

All avoidable.

Worst.Decision.Ever

I do not have an issue with them playing but I would think they would have 4 day bubbles for each event, mandate masks for everyone other than the players.

I am bit selfish though its nice to see some golf

They can’t create a bubble. They have hundreds of volunteers at this tournaments (even with no fans) and they aren’t going to get involved with even more testing and disclosing positives.

I am for golf too! In a safe location with minimal travel. What they are doing now is literally coast to coast in major cities.