Amid the ongoing hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, the PGA Tour informed its members that players currently ranked 1-150 in the FedEx Cup standings are entitled to receive a cash advance.
So what happens when the music stops, the big top folds up and no one is certain when the show will go on? Answers vary, depending on who you are and what you do.
As golf’s various stakeholders – the PGA Tour, European Tour and LPGA Tour, Augusta National, the PGA of America, the USGA and the R&A – cancel and postpone their own events and explore potential alternative dates, all are working with the assumption that the Olympics would go on as scheduled.
The new tournaments now to be cancelled include the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town in South Carolina, the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, and the Byron Nelson in Dallas.
Days away from hosting the Valspar Championship, tournament officials absorbed the sad news that there event was off for 2020 and braced for the impact it would have on the event and the community.
