First day of the tournament and already you broke this agreement.

Covid discussion has now been quarantined to its own thread!

The PGA Tour thread is now completely virus-free

Bubbled.

"Symptomatic" COVID withdrawee Webb Simpson seems to have recovered pretty well!

It was his daughter who tested positive. And then negative twice. That we were told. No idea if it is true. Or if he even has a daughter

Lol

golfnutt GOAT WOAT

Looks like they got through this tournament successfully.

It just shows how things change so drastically. Back when they made this schedule, Michigan was a hot mess and Florida was relatively safe. Now things have totally reversed.

It seems the majority of cases came out of South Carolina.

I actually think they will be fine for the next two tournaments in Ohio. Let’s see if they still allow fans though.

I wonder how Ohio numbers have been looking, I haven't checked lately.

*In the last 24 hours, 968 cases, 4 deaths and 61 hospitalizations were reported. There are 40,460 presumed recovered cases.*

They are totally in the clear there. Sounds super safe there.

These two stops, I am totally in favor. I would be surprised if there is more than 1 or 2 cases over the next two weeks.

PGA covid positive survivor Cam Champ looked pretty good today!

That’s a little weird, isn’t?

I am actually happy they got through a tournament without someone being yanked off.

I am not making any more predictions. Things are radically changing.

I have no idea if baseball is coming back. Or the NBA.

The sport I would bet against is College Football.

Golf will get by due to their depth. 90% of the tour is filler. The tour/public has gotten very used to Tiger not playing. He doesn’t make or break it anymore. He does add to the excitement.

I think he’ll come back to the Memorial with no fans. He has to give notice by Friday. We’ll see.

Very weird!

2 guys who you blasted the PGA for and essentially implied their careers might never be the same are back just a week later and crushing it.

Def betting on the next guy you try to make a COVID example out of

Finally, something I agree with 100%. There isn't any way to create or tighten any kind of bubble with CFB, the number of persons involved is too large and the athletes have to play school for the NCAA to maintain the veneer of amateurism.

Did some digging around the Ohio public health sites, looks like they've created a 4 level rating system by county for risk. Muirfield Village is in Dublin which spans three counties, the most likely county where the club is is in level 2, Orange, which indicates spread and advises a high degree of caution. Franklin County, which covers the south part of Dublin, is in level 3, Red, high exposure and spread, limit activities. No county in the state is in level 4, Purple, stay home as much as possible.

IMO if the numbers tick up much at all no fans for sure.

Tiger has to come back then. PGA isn’t that far away.

I give them serious props for making it through the tournament with 0 cases. Finally.

I was right that they should avoid travel but I was really off on my suggestion of staying in Florida and Arizona. That would be an epic disaster now to stay in those places for weeks on end. You want to avoid hotspots.

There really isn’t any safe spot anymore. We are just going to have to learn how to deal with it.

I am giving the Commissioner a free pass. I hope he succeeds. Very challenging time for everyone.

They have my blessing to continue.

Hotspots really aren't going to matter. The majority of these players come to the golf tournament and play golf and then go home and do basically nothing.

Really all the PGA has to do is mandate everyone wear a mask except the players when they are playing.


And Cam Champ could've definitely had the virus and was just on the tail-end of it. The whole 2 week thing is clearly a precautionary thing especially when there was a lack of testing, so instead of continually testing, you could just say someone is clear by then.

Seems like a good policy would be to verify any positive test. Someone tests positive, and he quarantines until the next test the next day or something.

I don’t think the golf course is the issue. You don’t see players getting it in groups. It is individual cases. They are getting it from travel, hotels, and restaurants. The PGA isn’t sharing the data, but O suspect South Carolina. You know they know.

I see smooth sailing for the next two weeks.

No fans for Memorial. Smart decision, not worth the risk with how smoothly things have been going.

This should mean Tiger returns too.

Finally the PGA Tour makes the right move.

It's a great policy. Golfnutt was basically saying these guys are risking their lives and careers though. They're obviously not and getting this isnt a big deal for them individually

Problem is the reliability of the tests aren't there yet. If a player tests positive, then negative a day later, which one do you believe? There have been both false negatives and false positives with these tests.

Other than the Ryder Cup and maybe the Masters and Open I prefer no fans

There is a risk to the lives and career that the league should protect. You saying that it isn’t a big deal for them individually is why we have this crisis.

They are spreaders as well. The virus didn’t stop with them. It continues. It will hit someone hard and kill them.

And, who knows really long-term what this does. A lot of varying reports. You are right though that
it isn’t deadly for the most part. We certainly shouldn’t be making this effort if everyone suffered the same fate as a PGA pro.

I am totally for professional golf being played. Their schedule they are going through is rife with risk. Looking at the travel schedule that baseball released. They did an amazing job of limiting travel.

They realigned everything. New divisions for one year. DH in the NL. I think they changed extra-innings rules to speed play.

Golf didn’t adjust. I think they got it under control now. I hope so.

Last I saw MLB had 31 players test positive for COVID and they haven't even started playing yet. Golf adjusted massively, wtf are you talking about?

The corona group.

Thoughts and prayers one of them makes the cut.

They just need to pair them together and contain the spread. EZ game.