LPGA Plans July Restart

Los Angeles (AFP) — The Women’s PGA Championship has been rescheduled for Oc-tober as the US-based LPGA Tour announced on Wednesday it plans to restart its 2020 sea-son in mid-July.

The major, one of five in the women’s game, was due to take place at Aronimink Golf Club in Pennsylvania in late June but has now been moved to October 8-11.

Other tournaments set to take

McIlroy, Johnson Headline Charity Match for COVID-19 Relief

by DOUG FERGUSON(AP) — Rory McIlroy and

Dustin Johnson headline a $3 million charity match for COVID-19 relief that will mark the first live golf on television since the pandemic shut down sports worldwide.

The May 17 match will be played at Seminole Golf Club in South Florida, a fabled course along the ocean where Ben Hogan once prepared for the Masters. It is to be televised by NBC networks, including Golf Channel, Sky Sports and the PGA Tour’s global TV partners.

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by MATT LAWELLSuperintendents across the

country have hurdled different challenges the last six weeks. The one constant is their ingenuity.

During his more than four de-cades as a golf course superin-tendent, Sam Samuelson has never ventured very far for very long. He might have stepped away from his work for two weeks, tops, for a vacation.

That was, at least, until the continuing COVID-19 pandemic surged into every corner of every life.

Samuelson is the superinten-dent at WildHawk Golf Club, a daily fee-course about half an hour southeast of downtown Sacramento, California. He is also 65 years old and considered to be square in the target demo-graphic for those at the highest risk of contracting and suffer-ing from the virus. He has not stepped foot on the WildHawk grounds in more than five weeks. He has also not missed a step.

Samuelson has been running his crew from home for the last five weeks, a story he shared earlier this week during the most

recent GCSAA COVID-19 town hall webinar. Tens of millions of American workers have carried on from their living rooms or dining rooms, but how many golf course superintendents are working from home? Samuelson is one member of an incredibly small group. “It has been inter-esting,” he says.

Before he headed home, Sam-uelson grabbed his work laptop, loaded with a handful of key apps, along with his 2020 wall calendar and some recent log books. He carved out a corner and designated a home office. “If I was going to run this from home,” he says, “I had to set it up so I had a rhythm like I have at work.”

Samuelson keeps his regular schedule, calling his crew for meetings at 5 a.m. each morn-ing, then checking his emails before calling up to the club-house around 6 a.m. Instead of hopping in a cart to drive around the course, he calls and texts crew members throughout the day. It is imperfect but it works.

The course is busier than ever

Without Promotions and Demotions, the Pipeline to the PGA Tour Is Clogged

by RYAN LAVNERMaking the best of a bad

situation, the PGA Tour an-nounced that no one will lose their Tour card this year and the best Korn Ferry Tour play-ers will have to wait until fall 2021 for a promotion.

Because of the shortened sea-sons caused by the coronavirus pandemic, these moves are sen-sible from both a fairness and business perspective. The Tour, first and foremost, can protect its own, and the very best up-and-comers can still force their way

to the next level via the three-win instant promotion.

But let’s be clear: This decision has significant ramifications as it trickles down into the devel-opmental circuits and even the college game.

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Golf’s Distance Problemby RYAN YOUNG

Tees have been an instrumen-tal part of golf for a long, long time.

Players of all levels, whether having fun at the local course to PGA Tour pros competing in the final round of a major championship, tee up their ball before hitting their drive to start each hole.

Nick Faldo wants to change that.

The three-time Masters cham-pion thinks that banning tees from the game would not only help with golf’s distance prob-lem, but also would make the

ir Nick Faldo looks on during a practice round prior to the 148th Open Championship held on the Dunluce Links at Royal Portrush Golf Club on July 17, 2019 in Portrush, United Kingdom. (Andrew Redington/Getty Images)

Hannah Green of Australia won the 2019 Women’s PGA Championship (AFP Photo/David Cannon)

Rory McIlroy, left, bumps elbows with an official as he packs his vehicle after the PGA tour canceled the rest of The Players Championship as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, Friday, March 13. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

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Vol. 32, No. 13 R O C H E S T E R Monday, May 4, 2020

Newest Updates from NYS Regarding Golf Carts and COVID-19 Guidance for Golf Courses

On Monday, the Empire State Development office provided some new, additional clarifica-tion to the Rochester District Golf Association regarding the use of golf carts amid the on-going COVID-19 restrictions for golfers and golf facilities throughout New York State.

The new clarification issued Monday allows for the limited use of golf carts under certain condi-tions, specifically if the carts are privately owned — and, if the intended cart use is for golfers designated as having disabilities.

Here is the clarification, as it was forwarded by the RDGA from the EDS office, to all RDGA Members and Member Clubs on Monday:

• Individuals may use a person-ally-owned golf cart as long as they are the only one in it (or they may ride with another member of their household).

• Disabled golfers may request a cart as an accommodation (however private courses are still not allowed to have extra staff on site so this must be handled by the allowed main-tenance or security staff).

This latest clarification addresses one of the more contentious as-pects of the most recently-updated Guidance of New York State’s COVID-19 Executive Order that was issued two weeks ago. That update officially allowed golf courses to permit individual golfers on their property for play — but

did not permit courses to have additional support staff on hand, which meant that the use of golf carts were not initially permitted.

Since the last update to the Guidance, many groups repre-senting disabled golfers, seniors and military veterans had peti-tioned the State to allow for golf cart use for those groups that needed carts in order to play. x

• • •RDGA Announces Changes to Schedule; Scramble, Qualifier Postponed, Junior Classic Canceled

Late last week, the Roches-ter District Golf Association an-nounced its first schedule changes affecting events on its 2020 tour-nament schedule, mostly for the month of May. These changes stemmed from concerns over re-strictions placed on golf facilities as a result of the COVID-19 out-break — including measures such as social distancing, limited staff on hand at facilities, no carts allowed and limited food service available.

The RDGA Two Person Scramble at Wayne Hills Coun-try Club, originally scheduled for Saturday, May 16, has been postponed to Saturday, June 20. The event will still be held at Wayne Hills. On Monday, the RDGA added that this event will be opened up to 100 players, or 50 two-person teams.

The RDGA District Champi-onship Qualifier at Chili Country Club, originally scheduled for Saturday, June 20, has been postponed to accommodate the new date for the RDGA Two Person Scramble. The new date for the District Championship Qualifier at Chili will be Sunday,

June 28.A week earlier, the RDGA had

also announced that its 2020 Junior Classic event at Penfield Country Club, scheduled for May 9, was canceled.

And last month, it was an-nounced by the USGA that the Local Qualifying rounds for the 2020 U.S. Open were canceled — accordingly, the U.S. Open Local Qualifier originally scheduled for Monday, May 4 at Ravenwood Golf Club was also canceled. Since then, the U.S. Open has been rescheduled for September 17 to 20 — however, there has still not been any new qualifying dates announced by the USGA.

One event that the RDGA an-nounced that will continue — at least tentatively, pending changes in State-mandated restrictions — is its first major championship event of the season, the RDGA Men’s and Senior Match Play Championships. As it currently stands, this event will be hosted by the Golf Club at Blue Heron Hills on May 29 through 31.

In its announcement last week, the RDGA added that there are likely to be additional changes in format for these postponed events by the date that they are played — based on the updated health and safety guidance provided by New York State at that time. Once

registration for these events has closed, these changes will be announced in detail. x

• • •New York State Golf Association Postpones All May Events on its Schedule

Due to current restrictions under the NYS on Pause Ex-ecutive Order and the evolving situation regarding COVID-19, the New York State Golf Associ-ation (NYSGA) has postponed all tournaments scheduled in May of 2020 as follows:• NYSGA Amateur Series

(Irondequoit CC on May 11): rescheduled for September 8.

• NYSGA Amateur Series (Kaluhyat GC on May 14): rescheduled for October 8.

• NYSGA Amateur Series (Shenendoah on May 15): rescheduled for October 9.

• NYSGA Amateur Series (Leatherstocking GC on May 19): new date TBD.

• NYS Men’s Four-Ball Cham-pionships (Leatherstocking GC, May 17-18): rescheduled for September 21-22.In its announcement, post-

ed to its website on April 28, the NYSGA said that no deci-sions have yet been made about events scheduled for June. x

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DRIVERS ON THE GOLF COURSE: Since NYS Guidance on COVID-19 restrictions allowed golf courses to permit individual play two weeks ago, the use of golf carts has been prohibited. In new clarification to that guidance announced on Monday, people will be able to use their own golf carts — and clubs will be allowed to offer carts for use by disabled golfers. (Dave Eaton)

SCRAMBLING FOR A NEW DATE: One of the more popular annual events on the RDGA schedule is the Two Person Scramble, such as this one at Greystone in 2016. This year’s RDGA Two-Person Scramble has been postponed to June 20 and will be hosted by Wayne Hills Country Club. (Dave Eaton)

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Captain Immelman: I’m Ready to Build on Ernie’s Legacy

by TREVOR IMMELMANAnyone growing up in South

Africa knows the name Ernie Els. He’s obviously a legend in not just our country, but throughout the entire world! I have been particularly lucky to call that legend a close friend. I’ve spoken to Ernie regularly throughout the course of my life, quite frankly, since I first met him when I was six or

seven years old.Given that, for me to be able

to follow in his footsteps as captain of the International Team at next year’s Presidents Cup is very, very special to me. Ernie has been a great friend and mentor to me throughout my life and someone I’ve been able to rely on for advice and guidance. To carry on the mo-mentum he created as captain is something I don’t take for granted. I’m truly humbled by it.

Though we were unable to deliver Ernie a win at Royal

Melbourne last year, the legacy that he established in his time as captain is something I hope to build on moving forward. I can’t wait to continue adding to the platform he created for us in 2019, and I anticipate that once we put the whole team together that we’ll all look for-ward to having another crack at it in 2021 at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Ernie knew that he needed to find a way to create a fam-ily dynamic among our team, and we felt that over the years that might have been what was missing. It’s a pretty big hur-dle to try and overcome when you have players coming from seven, eight or nine different countries and regions — with their own cultures and own lan-guages — in just one week.

We spent a lot of time trying to get all of the different players who could possibly be on the squad together, trying to get

to know one another and feel more comfortable around each other in that team environ-ment. Ernie really went out of his way to build unity amongst the group, and we learned a lot through that process. We learned about ourselves, about the different players, and I think that worked in our favor.

That was something he want-ed to create not just for himself and the 2019 team, but for further down the road, too. He really felt like our team needed a bit of guidance and some kind of identity. With the creation of a new International Team logo, that identity was born.

We had amazing chemistry in our team room in Australia. I’m sure everybody could see that and feel that. And it translated onto the golf course, where our guys really did compete as one unit, and we came so close to almost pulling off one of the biggest upsets, shucks, that I can think of in sports.

All of that was a credit to Ernie. When he came into the team room, the whole team could feel his aura and pres-ence. We could feel his intensi-ty. We could feel his emotion. We could feel how badly he wanted to turn this thing around and get our team to be compet-itive. And that really rallied our troops. When Ernie spoke, he said things that were truly im-pactful. He’s not always a man of many words. He likes to fly under the radar a little and let his clubs do the talking.

Those are literally and figura-tively massive shoes for me to fill. But I think we have a nice plan going forward. I’m going to draw on all sorts of different things that I’ve picked up over the years from a leadership standpoint from successful peo-ple all over the globe and all walks of life. But we’re going to have a great time. We’re going to have great communication. Just like everything in my ca-reer, there’s going to be a lot of attention to detail.

What Ernie showed me in his time as captain will no doubt play a big part in that. I spoke to him recently about how I would like things to unfold, just showing him the respect of keeping him up to date with

everything taking place, and to reiterate to him that what he has created for our team is going to be a massive part of our culture moving forward.

What he did for us is going to be a turning point for the In-ternational Team. We sat down after the Presidents Cup and tried to figure out where we went right and where we went wrong, the things we need to keep and the things we need to improve on. We have the blueprint that will hopefully lead us to victory, and he’s going to be part of that, albeit from a distance. He will always be there for us. And maybe now, with his help and enduring legacy, we can finally win this Cup again. x

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United States1. Justin Thomas 1,4032. Brendon Todd 1,1103. Webb Simpson 1,0834. Patrick Reed 1,0775. Lanto Griffin 1,0266. Kevin Na 8277. Xander Schauffele 8048. Cameron Champ 7279. Bryson DeChambeau 72110. Scottie Scheffler 69111. Tom Hoge 65412. Harris English 63013. Tyler Duncan 59214. Tiger Woods 57115. Patrick Cantlay 561

International1. Marc Leishman AUS 192.942. Hideki Matsuyama JPN 187.113. Louis Oosthuizen RSA 184.684. Adam Scott AUS 180.305. Abraham Ancer MEX 160.396. Haotong Li CHN 128.637. C.T. Pan TPE 125.778. Cameron Smith AUS 124.179. Jason Day AUS 120.5710. Jazz Janewattananond THA 113.8611. Sungjae Im KOR 112.0412. Justin Harding RSA 109.6713. Corey Conners CAN 102.3414. Shugo Imahira JPN 100.4715. Byeong Hun An KOR 97.26 x

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Remembering The Time Tiger Woods Saved Mark Calcavecchia $300K on a Putt

by WILL GRAYTiger Woods’ competitive

streak is well-documented, but even Woods sometimes lets his guard down to show a softer, gentler side. An eight-shot lead on the cusp of an eight-figure payday proved to be just the combination to unlock one such instance.

The scene was the 2007 Tour Championship, the first of the FedExCup era. Woods was his usual dominant self, and teed off with the lead in the final round alongside veteran Mark Calcavecchia. Calcavecchia was 47 at the time, enjoying a re-surgent season in the twilight of his career that included a win at Innisbrook earlier in the year.

While Calcavecchia tied for

the lead with a birdie on the first hole, the result wasn’t in doubt the rest of the way as Woods distanced from the 30-man field. By the time they reached the final hole, Woods was up by eight and about to close out the Tour’s first $10 million payday as the season-long champ. But as Calcavecchia explained on the Talk of the Tour podcast, the dollar figures for the rest of the field were still hanging in the balance.

“I do remember on 18 though, the long par-3. ...I hit it on the green and I was tied for second,” Calcavecchia said. “Tiger hit it 20 feet from the hole. I blasted my first putt about 8 feet by, so I said, ‘I’ll finish.’ And he walked by around me and said, ‘Take your

time. This is an important putt, take your time. Take your time and knock this one in, will ya?’”

Calcavecchia heeded Woods’ advice and knocked in the par save to retain a tie for second alongside reigning Masters champ Zach Johnson, eight shots behind Woods. That gave him a $619,500 payday, while a miss would have meant a tie for third with Sergio Gar-cia and only $409,500. Throw in his $600,000 bonus he got for finishing eighth in the sea-son-long standings, which would have been reduced by at least $50,000 with a miss, and the season-ending putt had some serious financial repercussions.

And in Calc’s view, he had Tiger to thank for the extra

bump to his bank account.“He knew it was probably a

$300,000 putt or something. And somehow I took my time and made it,” Calcavecchia said.

“I’ll never forget that, that he came up and said that to me at the time. So that was pretty cool.” x

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1. Rory McIlroy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NIR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.452. Jon Rahm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.483. Brooks Koepka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.734. Justin Thomas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.415. Dustin Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.456. Adam Scott. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.977. Patrick Reed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.877. Patrick Cantlay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.879. Webb Simpson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.8410. Tommy Fleetwood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ENG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.5811. Tiger Woods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.4412. Xander Schauffele . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.3813. Bryson DeChambeau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.1514. Justin Rose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ENG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.0215. Marc Leishman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.7916. Tony Finau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.6217. Matt Kuchar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.4318. Gary Woodland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3819. Louis Oosthuizen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SAF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3320. Shane Lowry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IRL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.2721. Tyrrell Hatton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ENG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.2322. Hideki Matsuyama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JPN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.1423. Sungjae Im . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.0424. Paul Casey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ENG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.9925. Matthew Fitzpatrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ENG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.7926. Bernd Wiesberger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.7727. Rickie Fowler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.5028. Francesco Molinari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ITA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.4629. Abraham Ancer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1330. Kevin Na . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1131. Lee Westwood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ENG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.0732. Henrik Stenson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SWE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.0633. Danny Willett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ENG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.8634. Billy Horschel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.7335. Cameron Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.7236. Kevin Kisner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.7037. Chez Reavie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.6938. Sergio Garcia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.6239. Jazz Janewattananond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.6040. Victor Perez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FRA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.6041. Shugo Imahira . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JPN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.5942. Erik van Rooyen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SAF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.5843. Matt Wallace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ENG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.4944. Collin Morikawa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.4645. Scottie Scheffler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.4046. Rafa Cabrera Bello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.4047. Christiaan Bezuidenhout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SAF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3948. Brandt Snedeker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3849. Graeme McDowell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NIR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3850. Byeong Hun An . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.36

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The Latest: Serena, Venus, Sharapova in Tennis Gaming Event

(AP) — The Latest on the ef-fects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world:

Serena and Venus Williams and Maria Sharapova are sched-uled to compete in a video game tennis tournament for charity called the “Stay at Home Slam.”

The IMG agency says Naomi Osaka and Kei Nishikori are also among the tennis players participating Sunday.

Other competitors include Ari-zona Cardinals receiver DeAndre Hopkins, Tennessee Titans quar-terback Ryan Tannehill, model Gigi Hadid and singer Seal.

Participants will each pick a charity to receive a $25,000 donation. The winner of the tournament will choose who gets an additional $1 million donation.

The event will be streamed on Facebook.

The Madrid Open set up a video game tournament for this week, with Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray and Angelique Kerber among the entrants.

All professional tennis tourna-ments have been postponed or canceled until at least mid-July.

Switzerland’s federal govern-ment says professional sports teams can resume training on May 11, with a view to playing games in empty stadiums four weeks later.

The government is set to make a final decision on May 27 as to whether games can re-sume in June. That will depend on the coronavirus pandemic. Games will have to be played in empty stadiums because of a federal order banning gather-ings of more than 1,000 people through August.

The Swiss top-tier soccer league was paused in February with 13 rounds left. St. Gal-len leads defending champion Young Boys on goal difference.

It is still unclear whether the Aug. 20 Diamond League track meet in Lausanne or the Euro-pean Masters golf tournament at the end of August at Crans-Mon-tana in the heart of the Swiss

Alps can be staged.A leading medical official at

UEFA says soccer competitions should be able to resume this season.

Soccer has been brought to a halt due to the coronavirus pan-demic, with some leagues — in-cluding France and the Nether-lands — canceling their 2019-20 seasons following government orders. FIFA’s medical com-mittee chair has also expressed doubts about completing this season.

Tim Meyer, chairman of UE-FA’s medical committee, says all soccer organizations planning for resumptions need to produce “comprehensive protocols dic-tating sanitary and operational conditions” to ensure the health of those involved in the games is protected.

Meyer says “it is definitely pos-sible to plan the restart of com-petitions suspended during the 2019-20 season” under these conditions and if local legislation is respected.

Meyer also is chairing the newly established UEFA medi-cal sub group which is examining the health issues surrounding a return to football.

The Women’s PGA Cham-pionship has been rescheduled for Oct. 6-11 because of the coronavirus outbreak.

The major championship was to be played from June 23-28 at Aronimink Golf Club in Penn-sylvania.

The ANA Inspiration and the U.S. Women’s Open are the other U.S.-based majors in the women’s game. They have al-ready been rescheduled.

There are five women’s ma-jors. The Evian Championship and the Women’s British Open are both scheduled for August and have yet to be postponed.

Sebastian Coe says he is “gen-uinely hoping that the pandemic will have been curtailed” by next year so the Tokyo Olympics can open in July 2021.

Coe is the president of World Athletics. He says “it’s pretty

clear though that you couldn’t go on forever postponing an Olympic Games. There comes a point where you do have to start posing questions. I hope we’re a little way off that yet.”

IOC President Thomas Bach and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said last month when the delay was announced that the Tokyo Games would not be held beyond the summer of 2021.

Coe also says he doesn’t “know enough to even speculate about vaccines.”

Japan Medical Association president Yoshitake Yokokura said Tuesday it would be difficult to hold the Olympics unless ef-fective vaccines are developed.

IOC President Thomas Bach says the future of sports after the coronavirus pandemic might mean fewer international events.

Bach cited “financial pressure” on organizers and the need to address climate change and says “we may also have to look more closely into the proliferation of sports events.”

The IOC president cautions in a letter to Olympic officials and athletes worldwide “the current health crisis will lead to a long and deep economic crisis” which will affect sports.

Bach says “governments must include sport in their economic support programs” so it can be part of a worldwide recovery.

The IOC has proposed saving money on staging the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 to help offset the Olympic body’s extra costs of hundreds of millions of dollars because of the postponement.

The Italian sports minister says it is increasingly unlikely the soc-cer season will resume.

Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte announced Sunday that professional sports teams can re-sume training on May 18. That means Serie A could resume playing games in June.

But Vincenzo Spadafora tells Italian television channel LA7 that “resuming training abso-lutely does not mean resuming the season.”

He adds that he sees “the path to restarting Serie A getting ever narrower” and that if he was among the presidents of soccer teams “I would be thinking about next season.”

The French government called off the season in that country on Tuesday and Spadafora says that could push Italy to do the same.

The Spanish Vuelta cycling race will not start in the Nether-lands as originally planned.

This year’s race was set to begin in the Dutch regions of Utrecht and North Brabant but the changes in the cycling cal-endar because of the coronavirus pandemic forced organizers in the Netherlands to cancel the country’s participation.

Dutch organizers say the proj-ect “had been designed as a big summer party” which would not be able to happen because of the changes in the Vuelta’s original

dates. They say they “preferred to request the official departure’s cancellation.”

Spanish organizers say they hope to plan a new start in the

Netherlands “in the very near future.”

This year’s Vuelta was set to start on Aug. 14. New dates have not been announced. x

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It will be the first golf event at Seminole shown on television.

McIlroy and Johnson, major champions who have reached No. 1 in the world, will be partners in a Skins match against Oklahoma State alumni Rickie Fowler and Matthew Wolff.

McIlroy and Johnson are play-ing for the American Nurses Foun-dation, while Fowler and Wolff are playing for the CDC Foundation. The match is titled, “Taylor-Made Driving Relief.” All four players have endorsement deals with TaylorMade.

McIlroy, currently No. 1 and the reigning PGA Tour player of the year, announced the match on the “Today” show with Carson Daly, with whom McIlroy has a podcast.

He described it as a chance to “do a small part to raise some money and raise some aware-ness.”

Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson are to play an exhibition match with NFL greats Tom Brady and Peyton Manning, though details of when and where that match is to take place have not been disclosed.

Live golf was last seen on TV on March 12, the first round of The Players Championship. The tour-

nament was canceled that night, and the earliest golf would return is June 11-14 at Colonial in Texas.

Golf courses in Palm Beach County, where all four players live, were closed until late last week. McIlroy said he had gone some seven weeks without playing until getting out to the range a few days ago.

Some details of the Seminole

match were still being worked out as it relates to safe practices. Officials say spectators will not be allowed.

Along with the $3 million to the two groups, Farmers Insurance has pledged $1 million for a bird-ies and eagles pool that will benefit “Off Their Plate,” a charitable organization helping healthcare workers. The PGA Tour is setting up a “text-to-donate” plan online to allow viewers to make addition-al contributions. x

game that much harder.“If they banned tee pegs, if

they went and played a tour-nament with no tee pegs, the guys would have to go out and alter their drivers,” Faldo said on Geoff Shackelford’s podcast, via Golf Digest. “They’d say, ‘Alright, you’re allowed to place it on the grass.’ You wouldn’t be using [a driver that’s] six de-grees. You’d need to use one that can get airborne a bit. And that would seriously change it.

“Sure, they could hit 3-wood. And that would be their opti-mum. They could hit 3-wood off the ground, Rory would still hit it 285 yards in the air. But it’d be a tough hit to hit a driver off the deck.

“I think that’s what we have to get out there. It’s about the quality of the strike. And that would bring in a little more in-consistency.”

Faldo also suggested shrinking the size of the driver’s face.

“If you brought back the size of the face down, so there would be some serious mis-hits ... that way, the sweet spot for the pro would be a real sweet spot, not a sweet face,” Faldo said, via Golf Digest. “That’s what it is now, it’s the whole thing.”

Golf’s Distance ProblemThe USGA and R&A released

a report in February that found both hitting distances and golf course lengths have been in-creasing throughout the game across the world, something that they say “is detrimental to the game’s long-term future.”

“This report clearly shows a consistent increase in hitting dis-tance and golf course lengths over the last 100-plus years,” USGA CEO Mike Davis said in a statement. “These increases have had a profound impact on costs to build, modify and oper-ate golf courses and they have impacted golfers at all levels.

“We believe this problem will continue unless this cycle is brought to an end. With col-laboration from the entire golf community, we have an oppor-tunity to stem this tide and help ensure golf remains sustainable and enjoyable for generations to come.”

Neither the USGA nor the R&A provided any solutions to the problem, but are currently researching potential options. Possible rule changes could in-clude restricting certain types of clubs or balls.

Would Banning Tees Actually Work?

It’s not an awful idea, as the move would certainly force golfers to adapt and prohib-it them from hitting longer drives.

If the goal is to solve golf’s distance problem, however, this probably isn’t the solution.

Like Faldo himself said, play-ers would need a new type of driver that could get the ball up in the air more if they aren’t using a tee. It wouldn’t take long for companies to figure out a driver that would work well under those circumstanc-es.

To truly make a difference, restricting types of clubs or balls that could be used would likely make a much larger and lasting impact.

Though if Faldo got his way, it could force the average golf-er to simply use their 5-iron off the tee every time. If there was ever a surefire way to elim-inate a slice from your game and keep your drive out of the woods, it’s that. x

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Though understandable, the 2020-21 mega-season is a frus-trating scenario for the Korn Ferry Tour elite. Even in limited action, players like Davis Riley have shown they’re ready to make the leap but now will have to wait as various hangers-on get another year of Tour eligibility. If the Korn Ferry Tour players are able to restart June 11, in a new event at TPC Sawgrass’ Dye’s Valley Course, they’re expected to play 11 more events, with no breaks and seemingly no immediate re-ward. Instead of the top 25 grad-uating to the big leagues, only the top 10 will receive limited access to the 2020-21 PGA Tour (through opposite-field events and perhaps a few other weaker tournaments), and they’ll all have to wait another year for a full promotion. There is also the unsettling scenario that a player could be in position for a full card after 2020, only to hit a rough patch next year and fail to be one of the top 25 graduates.

Then look deeper.If the PGA Tour isn’t promoting

or relegating players after this cur-rent season, then it’s reasonable to assume that the Korn Ferry Tour won’t, either. Which means that the other feeder tours in Latin America and Canada and China would have to be at a standstill, too.

With Korn Ferry Tour Q-School already canceled for this year, the pipeline is clogged.

And what, then, for the best college players in the country?

Next month is typically when the amateur elite turn professional and scoop up sponsor exemptions throughout the summer, hoping to earn enough points to earn a

Tour card or at least advance to the Korn Ferry Tour Finals. Those opportunities seem likely to be in short supply, however, with every Tour type itching to play following a three-month hiatus.

With the national championship canceled, the NCAA extended a lifeline to college seniors, granting them another year of eligibility. A couple of top-5 players in Baylor’s Cooper Dossey and Oklahoma’s Quade Cummins have already announced they’re coming back for a fifth season, while the pre-sumptive National Player of the Year, Pepperdine’s Sahith Thee-gala, previously said that he won’t return. These are difficult and per-sonal choices, and no matter the obstacles ahead, some players will simply be ready to move on and bet on themselves. But with fewer entry points, it’s a risk.

Some perspective is needed here, so let’s use Cummins as a real-life example. Returning to Oklahoma for a fifth year means that he won’t turn pro until June 2021. Entering that summer he’d have no status and few sponsor exemptions because of the deep-er talent pool. Though he could go lights-out and parlay a few spot starts into a Tour card, the more likely outcome is heading to Canada, then to Q-School, and hopefully earning access to the Korn Ferry Tour in 2022, which means that — at the earliest — he could reach the PGA Tour by fall 2022. If he does absolutely every-thing right.

It’s unfortunate, and it’s messy, and it’s a problem without an easy solution. But here’s a painful truth: The path to the PGA Tour just got a little more complicated. x

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— averaging about 300 rounds per day since reopening earlier this month, compared to about 175 to 200 before shutting down. “Golf is in high demand,” he says, “because people can’t do a lot of other outdoor things safely.”

Samuelson is not the only member of the WildHawk main-tenance crew not on the course. There are a couple others, he says, who are also in their 60s and have been staying home. Their health — their life, really — is far more important.

“You have people coming to work for you,” he says. “They’re putting their health at risk, they’re putting their fam-ily’s health at risk. Say thank you. And then say thank you again.”

There are so many unique stories in the industry right now. Every superintendent is dealing with different details and different challenges. The number of open courses has exceeded 50 percent. Some never closed, some are in vary-ing stages of reopening, some are thriving. During another GCSAA town hall webinar ear-lier this month, National Golf Course Owners Association CEO Jay Karen indicated the difference between survival and shutting down could be whether the course was closed at all. Uncertain times.

What is certain is the ingenu-ity of superintendents.

At Legends Club in Prior Lake, Minnesota, Scott Thayer described his last six weeks as “a roller coaster.” Governor Tim Walz issued the statewide stay at home executive order on March 25, with only essen-tial workers permitted at their workplaces and offices. Course maintenance was not consid-ered essential.

Thayer and other superin-tendents around the North Star State were required to complete a deed to be added to the es-sential list. They also worked with the Minnesota Golf As-sociation’s allied associations to contact legislators to allow maintenance. But nothing was passed quickly.

Those early shuttered days were beautiful, Thayer says, and “we could have gotten a lot done.” Instead, courses were closed for maintenance until the afternoon of April 8 — more than two full weeks — and, of course, an Easter Sunday snow-storm followed four days later.

The next hurdle arrived around noon on April 17, when Thayer and other Min-nesota superintendents learned courses would open to golfers — the next morning. The tee sheet filled up in less than half an hour. Thayer mobilized his skeleton crew of three others “to do as much as we could do” in the remaining five or six daylight hours. At one point, Thayer headed to Walmart for

supplies, including a pool noo-dle for cups. There were none, so he borrowed one from his children, cutting it up into 18 chunks.

The last two weeks have been happy but hectic. Thayer has been clocking in each of his crew members on his computer to cut down on the number of touchpoints, staggering lunches, sanitizing equipment before the day begins and limiting equip-ment — including carts for play-ers — to a single person. “I hate seeing four golf carts and four guys,” he says, “but we all make our sacrifices. They’ve made it work with the golf carts. We’ve had to get 10 extra golf carts in. It’s been a full tee sheet almost every day.”

Mark Jordan has witnessed even fewer golfers on the course than Thayer. As the natural re-source leader at Westfield Coun-try Club in Westfield Center, Ohio — a club owned and op-erated by Westfield Insurance — he helped make the decision to keep the club closed after Gov-ernor Mike DeWine announced the state’s initial shelter-in-place order March 22. Golf courses could remain open, but West-field Country Club would be closed through April 30.

“We didn’t want to play ping-pong about whether we were opened, whether we were closed,” Jordan says. “We had 45 days to develop a plan, and we wanted to develop a golf course opening plan and a plan for all of our employees to re-turn to work.”

Like so many other courses, Westfield Country Club is ask-ing golfers to arrive 15 min-utes prior to their tee time and depart immediately after the round, with tee times scheduled for every 20 minutes. Carts will not be allowed. Among the notable differences is that the earliest tee time is 9 a.m. and those first spots on the sheet are reserved for golfers 60 and older.

Jordan is also staggering the size of his crew and the scope of his maintenance over the next month. He worked with only eight fulltime employees through April 28, then added eight part-timers on April 29 and will add 10 seasonal work-ers who have previously worked at the club on May 15 and 14 more seasonal members new to the club in late May. Mainte-nance, in turn, will be ramped up from the bare minimum in April to early spring standards in mid-May and the full standard from mid-May through late Sep-tember. “We want to identify what’s working and what isn’t working,” Jordan says. “It gives us an opportunity to react.”

At Traverse City Golf & Country Club in Traverse City, Michigan, superintendent Steve Hammon is expanding the defi-nition of flexibility, affording his crew the opportunity to work whatever hours work for

them — in line with both social distancing and caring for fam-ily. Need to work only morn-ings? Only afternoons? Need to squeeze a week’s worth of hours into three or four days? Go for it.

The only parameters to the flexible schedule — which will likely work far better for smaller crews — is that hours must be clocked between 5 a.m., when Hammon’s mechanic arrives, and 5 p.m., when Hammon leaves for the day, and that the hours count at the end of the week still needs to be 40.

“With only three hourly em-ployees,” says Hammon, the 2020 Golf Association of Mich-igan Superintendent Award of Merit winner, “it’s pretty easy to watch each other.”

The crew will peak around 15 in the summer. “We’re going to keep it clean,” Hammon says, noting that he started wearing a mask during his personal hours in mid-April and that he should have started wearing one at the course around the same time. “It’s out there.”

Kevin Sunderman would pre-fer at least one mulligan, too. The superintendent at Isla Del Sol Yacht and Country Club in St. Petersburg, Florida, Sun-derman reduced weekly hours for his staff at the start of the pandemic, from 40 to 30. Had he known then how long the pandemic might last, he would not have cut back so soon, “be-cause now I can’t add those hours back,” he says.

Sunderman schedules no more than half his staff at any one time, in part to cut down on the amount of time employees are around others, and in part to operating with economic re-sponsibility and not lay off any-body. “From Day 1, we have made safety our No. 1,” he says. “We were going to do whatever was required to pro-vide a safe environment for ev-eryone here.” Meetings moved outdoors, virus education was incorporated, and everybody learned for the first time since probably elementary school ex-actly how to wash their hands — “something we maybe took for granted,” Sunderman says.

“If you put your hands on it, as soon as you put it down, you disinfect it. Before you pick it up, you disinfect it,” he says. “Did you clean every doorknob? Did you clean every light switch? Did you wipe down the refriger-ator handle? If you touched it, is it clean? If you breathed on it, is it clean?”

The course is modified, too. Flagsticks are wrapped with streamers, divot sand is long gone, carts are sanitized and not even golfers who live together are permitted to share one. “I don’t want to be part of the reason golf is not allowed in the state of Florida,” Sunderman says.

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place in Michigan, Arkansas and Ohio in June and early July have also been postponed.

“One thing that has become clear is that there will be no ‘opening bell’ regarding a return to safe play in this new normal of the COVID-19 pandemic,” said LPGA commissioner Mike Whan.

“To be honest, being ‘first’ has never been the goal when it comes to returning to play in this new normal. We have built a schedule that we think is as safe as possible.”

The LPGA Tour is now due to resume on July 15 at the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invita-tional tournament in Michigan

followed by events in Ohio and New Jersey.

The LPGA also announced in-creases in prize money at many of the 2020 events.

The ANA Inspiration and the US Open, originally scheduled to be the first majors of the year, were previously rescheduled for September and December.

The Evian Championship is scheduled to be held in France in early August but the major appears unlikely to go ahead as planned as the French govern-ment has banned all sporting events until September.

Only four LPGA events have been contested this year, two in Florida in January and two in Australia in February. x

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Justin Thomas, Rickie Fowler Turn Back Clock with Persimmons, Vintage Ball

With people cooped up in-side during quarantine and the coronavirus pandemic, many have turned to new hobbies, like puzzles, exercise or reading. But for two of the game’s top play-ers, they turned to a different on-course challenge.

Justin Thomas and Rickie Fowler hit up Medalist Golf Club in South Florida on Sunday for a throwback match, equipped with vintage persimmon clubs

and balls. Thomas even rocked the old-school tie-and-cardigan combo, similar to what he wore during the 2017 Open Champi-onship at Royal Birkdale.

Hitting persimmon clubs on the screws is one of the more pleasurable sounds in life. As Thomas pointed out in the cap-tion, “The audio on some of the shots today were niiiiiice.”

Thomas is already pleading for another go around, saying,

“Safe to say, I will be asking for rick as a partner next time we do this.” Imagine how fired up the home crowd at Whistling Straits would be if they saw Thomas and Fowler emerge from the tunnel to the first tee rocking old-school Ryder Cup uniforms and then immediately pulling out a persimmon driver.

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Here’s Further Proof that The Golf Gods Do Exist.

An emergency-room nurse from Olivet, Michigan, recorded her first hole-in-one in just her third round of golf, according to a story by the Battle Creek Enquirer. The ace came at the 125-yard, par-3 16th hole at Cedar Creek Golf Club in Battle Creek, where Spitz recently be-came a member.

Spitz, who works at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, hit driver on the hole and said her ball took a bounce off the cart path before dropping in the hole. It was also Spitz’s first green in regulation on a par 3.

“I was just excited to hit a good shot,” Spitz said. “So, when I saw it hit the green I was super excited. Then it kept rolling, and rolling and then it disappeared. Some friends we were playing with ran up and saw the ball was in the hole and started yelling that I had a hole-in-one… I didn’t believe it at first,

then I looked into the hole and there it was.”

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Jordan Spieth Denied Hole-in-One by Coronavirus

by JASON OWENSJordan Spieth returned to the

golf course on Thursday.He hit a hole-in-one.That’s how it reads in his re-

cord book, at least.Playing with proper social dis-

tancing guidelines, the three-time major winner teed off at his home Maridoe Golf Club outside of Dallas on Thursday in a fundraising event for the club’s caddies. Tony Romo also took the course.

Spieth took dead aim at the 110-yard, par-3 17th hole, ac-

cording to Golf Channel.“We were playing a little two-

on-two match and my part-ner was already on the green, about 12 feet, so I said, ‘I may as well go right at it, right?’” Spieth told Golf Channel. “It never left the stick, and I knew it was going to land somewhere around the hole. And sure enough it landed in the hole.”

But there was a problem.

Spieth Denied by Safety Measure

Spieth’s ball bounced out after it hit a device called a social-dis-tancing spacer. A spacer is a plastic tool placed in holes to make them shallow amid the coronavirus pandemic so golf-ers don’t have to risk touching the pin.

To add insult to injury, Spi-eth’s ball landed in the water adjacent to the green after it bounced out of the hole. The spacer had also bounced out, providing further evidence of Spieth’s would-be ace.

So how did it go down on the scorecard? Romo and the rest of Spieth’s opponents didn’t cut him a break. Spieth finished out the hole for a double bogey.

But he insisted that in his own personal record book, the shot would stand as an ace, his first in around four years.

“I’m going to count it,” Spieth said. “It was one of those ones where it would most likely have stayed in. ... I’ve been shut out for a while, so hopefully this is a good omen.”

GOLF opinion & commentGrateful to be Back to Golf During a Pandemic, PGA Life Members Record One of the Game’s Rarest Feats

by by BOB DENNEYWhen you get a couple of PGA Life

Members together for a round of golf, there’s no telling what might happen. Sometimes it’s off the charts.

Husband and wife Steve Howe and Carolyn Barnett-Howe of Appleton, Wisconsin, teamed for a weekly best-ball event among PGA Members Wednes-day at PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie, Florida. They came away having accom-plished one of golf’s rarest feats.

Steve and Carolyn, each using a 7-iron, made back-to-back holes-in-one on the testy 158-yard, par-3 No. 6 hole on The Dye Course. The Howes’ balls came to rest in the Styrofoam sponge collar just inside the hole. The collar follows COVID-19 safety guidelines to prevent golfers from touching the metal flagstick.

The excitement overshadowed the 74th birthday of playing partner Fred Gipp of Port St. Lucie, another PGA

Life Member. Even so, playing from the white tees he hit a 9-iron from 130 yards to within five feet of the flagstick. Gipp rolled his putt home for a birdie and the trio won the event. If there was a down-side, neither Steve or Carolyn could claim the “giant skin” prize, their aces cancelling each other out for the lowest score on that momentous sixth hole.

“I’ve made 14 holes-in-one, but I’ve never seen anything like it in my life,” said Gipp, a former PGA Head Professional at West Sayville (New York) Golf Course. “It was my birthday present. That was two for the Gipper.”

The Howes are no slouches when it comes to holes-in-one, either: Steve now has 10 and Carolyn five. Carolyn, 57, is a two-time Women’s PGA Stroke Play champion (2006, ’08), while Steve, 69, served as Wisconsin PGA President from 1984-86.

“All the stars aligned for this,” said Carolyn, who completed an eight-week

coaching program for 100 prep golfers in Wisconsin just before the health crisis shut down the spring sports season. “It was surreal. Steve hit first, so his was easy. The pressure was all on me.”

It was the first time in five weeks that the Howes used golf carts. Each was driving their own cart in accordance with safety guidelines during the health crisis.

“Everything happened at once,” said Steve, “And it was great seeing Freddy get excited. I wish we could have had a party, but the clubhouse is closed. Once it reopens, we will celebrate.

” Aside from a big day on the course, Carolyn said she and Steve feel “incredibly blessed” to be able to golf during a health crisis.

“Golf has its own way of social dis-tancing,” she said. “Golf is in a unique position to help us out of this. I think that people can enjoy the outdoors as we all transition.” x

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No Fans Means Same Sport, Different Arenaby DOUG FERGUSON

(AP) — Rory McIlroy contemplated what golf would be like without fans. This was five days before there was no golf at all.

“I’d be OK with it,” he said at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, unaware the new coronavirus was about to shut down golf for at least three months. “It would be just like having an early tee time on the PGA Tour.”

And then he added with a laugh, “I guess for a few guys, it wouldn’t be that much different.”

McIlroy had one of those early times when he was a 20-year-old rookie on the PGA Tour. He teed off in the second round of the Honda Classic at 6:59 a.m.

So this will be going back in time for McIlroy, along with the rest of the sport.

The PGA Tour set a target of June 8-14 at Colonial in Texas to resume its schedule, with no fans for at least a month. Even if the Charles Schwab Challenge doesn’t prove to be the return, golf will be without spectators whenever it starts.

Will it matter?Low score still wins, no matter who’s

there to see it.But it will be a new arena.“I could play without fans, but I don’t

think I’d play as well,” McIlroy said Tues-day on his GolfPass podcast with Carson Daly and Stephen Curry. “Especially on a Sunday, back nine, you feed off that energy. You hear roars on other parts of the golf course and you sort of know what’s going on. All those dynamics are in play when you have people there.”

The dynamics go beyond noise, of course.

Nathan Grube, the tournament direc-tor of the Travelers Championship in

Connecticut, is preparing it to be the third tournament, the last weekend in June, if golf resumes on schedule. There is hope. There is excitement.

There are no grandstands being erected.That wouldn’t be a big problem at the

TPC River Highlands, which features a stadium design and allows for good viewing, especially over the closing holes.

But imagine other courses without stands, without hospitality suites, with nothing but green grass, white sand in the bunkers, the occasional water hazard.

Think about Mackenzie Hughes trying to play a cut into the 18th green at the Honda Classic, only to pull it into the middle of the bleachers. He was given a free drop. Years ago, the safe play on the 18th at Doral was to put it into the grandstands beyond the green to take water out of the equation, knowing there would be a free drop.

“They’re not going to catch errant shots on some holes,” said Mark Russell, a senior rules official on the PGA Tour.

They are temporary immovable ob-structions, and they are a big part of modern golf.

That’s why the USGA, and then the R&A, created a number of drop zones (white circles) in front of the grand-stands around the 18th hole, starting with Winged Foot in 2006, to avoid tak-ing too much time figuring out where to drop for shots into or behind the stands. In a few cases, it allowed for a player to advance his ball closer to the hole with-out hitting it.

Speaking of Winged Foot, consider that no fans on the course means the rough will remain just that. Phil Mickel-son, as an example, has been known to hit tee shots so far off line that the ball comes to rest in an area where gallery

traffic has trampled thick grass and led to a reasonable lie.

(Maybe if there were no fans at Winged Foot, he would have had to play toward the 18th fairway instead of hitting 3-iron, which led to double bogey and a run-ner-up finish in the 2006 U.S. Open.)

Fans were Arnold Palmer’s best friends - literally, in so many cases, but also keeping some of his wild shots from straying too far off line.

Tiger Woods once came to the 18th hole at Bay Hill tied for the lead when he pulled his tee shot. It was headed out of bounds but instead struck one of the thousands of spectators in the neck. From grass that had been flattened by the gallery, he hit 5-iron to 15 feet and made birdie to beat Mickelson by one shot.

No gallery? It’s happened before, most recently in Japan because of flooding. Before that, Congressional had no fans for the third round of the AT&T Nation-al because of trees downed by a wind storm. Woods, the biggest draw in golf, won both tournaments.

Sound is underrated in golf, especially at scenic Augusta National. Woods spoke to studying every leaderboard so when he heard a roar, he would have a better idea of who did what.

Max Homa recalled his first PGA Tour victory, a year ago this week at the Wells Fargo Championship, and how electric it was walking up the 18th fairway.

The next tournament he plays will be different.

“It will be weird,” Homa said Tuesday. “I imagine the first person to win, it prob-ably will be the strangest of their lives. It sounds very selfish of us to not want to play in front of fans because it won’t be electric. But people are craving sports, craving entertainment. I’d carry my bag

in front of nobody if needed.”Without fans, without noise and excite-

ment, it won’t be the same.But it will be golf. And for the time

being, that will do.• • •

The Similarities and Differences Between Golf’s Return Now and of That After 9/11

by REX HOGGARDOn Sept. 21, 2001, Mike Piazza led

the New York Mets to a 3–2 come-from-behind victory over the Atlanta Braves with an eighth-inning home run to cap one of the most memorable and emotional nights in American sports history.

It was the first baseball game in New York City after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and is still celebrated as a re-turn to something approaching normal during a time when nothing felt normal. It’s an iconic moment in U.S. history, but it wasn’t the first sports event played in the aftermath of the attack.

A day earlier on Sept. 20, the PGA Tour returned to action not far from an-other scar left by the terrorists’ actions.

“You could almost see the crash site from where we played. It was chilling,” remembered Olin Browne, who tied for 18th at the 2001 Marconi Penn-sylvania Classic. “We had just been attacked for the first time on American soil since World War II and it was a weird feeling.”

Laurel Valley Golf Club, site of the ’01 Pennsylvania Classic, was located just a few miles from Stonycreek Town-ship where the fourth plane, United

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Airlines Flight 93, crashed.It was a surreal scene when

play restarted soon after and near to the 9/11 attacks. And although not a perfect com-parison, “surreal” could also describe what we’ll witness when play restarts in June at the Charles Schwab Challenge.

As the PGA Tour wrestles with exactly what golf will look like when competition resumes, the ’01 Pennsylvania Classic provides a snapshot of what players might experience.

“Getting on an airplane, which was empty, to fly up there was surreal,” recalled Tripp Isenhour, a former-Tour-player-turned-Golf-Channel-an-alyst. “That was definitely an experience. It was a somber mood. The fact we were play-ing just miles from where the plane crashed threw even more gravity on it.”

If play begins again at Colo-nial in June players should an-ticipate similar moments at the airport, at the rental car counter

and certainly at the golf course, which will include no fans for at least the first four events.

“The similarities are, am I safe? Is my family going to be OK? That’s the thing about this virus, you can die from this thing. Our safety had been taken with 9/11 and our safety has been taken away from us now,” said Billy Andrade, who tied for 33rd at Laurel Valley.

A lengthy quarantine didn’t follow the 9/11 attacks, but the lengths to which everyday life was altered then and has been now are similar.

“My only experience with anything like this would be the first few tournaments follow-ing 9/11,” said Andy Pazder, the Tour’s chief tournament and competitions officer. “We had players that were uneasy about air travel. That’s one of the beauties of being a PGA Tour member; you’re an in-dependent contractor. You’re not required to be at any PGA Tour event. They may or may not feel comfortable. But that’s an individual player decision.”

But then skipping the ’01 Pennsylvania Classic wasn’t re-ally an option for most players, much like skipping the Charles Schwab Challenge, whenever it’s played, probably isn’t a con-sideration.

Here’s how the updated PGA Tour schedule looks, from June-December

“I was always going to play [in 2001]. If I was in the field at Colonial I’d be playing there as well,” Steve Flesch said. “I

never thought about not playing Pennsylvania.”

There are limits to the sim-ilarities between the events, most notably the idea that sports would carry on following the 9/11 attacks. There will be sports after the coronavirus shutdown eases, but what that looks like is wildly uncertain.

It remains unclear when fans will be allowed back at Tour events and in stadiums, and the circuit continues to work with health officials on testing proto-cols when play resumes. Social distancing is now a mandated way of life.

“The whole country just shut down [after 9/11]. Air travel, everything just stopped. But I think this supersedes [the 9/11 attacks] because you have to treat everybody like they have the virus,” said Flesch, who opened In 69-67 at Laurel Valley before finishing tied for 22nd place. “Everything about the game of golf changes. You walk on the first tee and shake hands, you see them on the range or the equipment trailer, it’s about the camaraderie. Now it’s like, hands off. Before it was a threat to the country; this is a threat to everyone.”

In simplest terms, both mo-ments in history changed the world and certainly altered the sports landscape, but the dif-ference between life after 9/11 and what players are expecting in the wake of the coronavi-rus shutdown is that, at least in retrospect, there wasn’t the level of uncertainty following

the attacks that COVID-19 has caused.

“To come back without a vaccine is almost like playing Russian roulette. You’ve got people cooking your food at the course, the locker rooms that aren’t very spacious. That first tee at Colonial is about as big as two king-sized beds,” Andrade said. “All it takes is one person in any sport [to test positive for coronavirus] then everything shuts down again.”

The common theme for both events is the uncertainty and Colonial will undoubtedly have a similarly bizarre feel. But the biggest difference is, when Piazza launched his game-winning home run the stadium erupted for a collective celebration. Perhaps golf’s return will ignite similar emotions, only the high-fives and hugs will be metaphorical. x

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To make it official, he offered to buy a round of drinks at the clubhouse.

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Tiger Woods Says This Exercise Early in His Career ‘Destroyed’ His Body

If you had one thing you could go back in time and tell your younger self, what would it be?

Tiger Woods was asked the question during a recent GolfTV Q&A, to which he an-swered: “Yeah, not to run so much.”

In his early years on the PGA Tour, Woods’ daily workout rou-tines including a heavy running workload, which Woods said took a serious toll on his body.

“Running over 30 miles a week for probably my first five, six years on Tour pretty much destroyed my body and my knees,” Woods said.

Woods, 44, has had numerous injuries during his storied pro career, including back, knee and Achilles issues. He’s had four

back surgeries, the most recent in April 2017, and five proce-dures done on his left knee, the latest coming last August.

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NHSGA & New England PGA Host College Golf Recruiting Webinar

The National High School Golf Association and New En-gland PGA hosted a webinar for

prospective student-athletes and parents on YT Wednesday night.

‘The Ins and Outs of College Golf Recruiting’ brought togeth-er top players, coaches, junior golfers and recruiting experts to tell their stories and help parents and high school students navi-gate the college golf recruiting process.

The event supported the Golf Emergency Relief Fund aid golf industry employees during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Guests included Jennifer Kup-cho, Keegan Bradley, Buddy Alexander, Herb Page, Katie Brophy Miles, Aidan Thomas, Jessica Meyers, Mike Bender and Trillium Rose.

To learn more and donate to the Golf Emergency Relief Fund visit relief.golf. The full three-hour event is available below.

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Qualification for Olympic Golf Competition Extended to June 2021

by WILL GRAYWith the Olympic Games

pushed back one year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Golf Federa-tion announced Wednesday that qualification for the men’s and women’s golf competitions have been adjusted accordingly.

The qualification window was originally slated to close in June, but that was before the Tokyo Olympics were postponed to 2021. Now the period to make the 60-person field has also been pushed back one year, with men’s qualification ending on June 21, 2021, and women’s qualification ending on June 28, 2021.

“Having received from the IOC confirmation of the dates for when the Tokyo 2020 Olym-pic Games will be held and the qualification principles, the fair-est and most equitable way to determine the qualifying athletes was to align the previous quali-fication system with these new dates,” said IGF executive direc-tor Anthony Scanlon. “We are pleased that the IOC swiftly ap-proved these changes to provide clarity on this important area.”

The field for the men’s com-petition will still be based on the Official World Golf Ranking, while the women’s field will be

drawn from the Rolex Rank-ings. Both systems operate on a two-year rolling window of re-sults, with the most weight given to the results in the 13 weeks prior to the cutoff. That means that finishes from tournaments played next spring will play a large factor in determining who heads to Tokyo.

Golf was on the cusp of that 13-week spring window this year before competition ground to a halt because of the coronavirus. The world rankings were official-ly frozen on March 20, and an official plan for the resumption of the rankings has not yet been announced.

The qualification format will still include a maximum of two players per country, with the limit raised to four players per country if all are ranked inside the top 15. Based on the latest rankings, the Americans in posi-tion to qualify would be Brooks Koepka, Justin Thomas, Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed, Nelly Korda, Danielle Kang and Lexi Thompson. Johnson previous-ly announced that he did not plan to compete in Tokyo, and the next American man in line would be world No. 7 Patrick Cantlay. x

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