PGA Tour To Continue Without Fans For Remainder Of Season

There will not be fans at any PGA Tour event for the rest of the 2020 season

PGA Tour To Continue Without Fans For Remainder Of Season
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There will not be fans at any PGA Tour event for the rest of the 2020 season

PGA Tour To Continue Without Fans For Remainder Of Season

There will be no fans on-site at any of the PGA Tour's upcoming events this season due to Covid-19.

Fans were due to return at this week's Memorial Tournament but that was scrapped due to rising cases in Ohio.

The three FedEx Cup Playoff events announced today that they will go ahead without spectators, as will the upcoming 3M Open, WGC-FedEx St Jude Invitational, USPGA Championship and Wyndham Championship.

“As we have said from the start, our number one priority remains the health and safety of everyone in the communities where we are invited guests each week,” said PGA Tour chief tournaments and competitions officer Andy Pazder.

The 2020 season concludes at the Tour Championship at East Lake in early September, with the US Open taking place the following week at Winged Foot in New York.

There has been no official announcement from the USGA regarding their plans for having crowds on-site as of yet.

New York City reported its first day with no new Covid-19-related deaths at the weekend so there could be some cautious hope that fans might be able to attend the US Open.

However, that does still seem unlikely.

The Ryder Cup was due to take place the following week but that has now been officially postponed as fans would have been unable to attend.

It is also still unknown whether the year's final Major at Augusta National will have fans or 'patrons' on-site either.

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Elliott Heath is our News Editor and has been with Golf Monthly since early 2016 after graduating with a degree in Sports Journalism. He manages the Golf Monthly news team as well as our large Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. He covered the 2022 Masters from Augusta National as well as five Open Championships on-site including the 150th at St Andrews. His first Open was in 2017 at Royal Birkdale, when he walked inside the ropes with Jordan Spieth during the Texan's memorable Claret Jug triumph. He has played 35 of our Top 100 golf courses, with his favourites being both Sunningdales, Woodhall Spa, Western Gailes, Old Head and Turnberry. He has been obsessed with the sport since the age of 8 and currently plays off of a six handicap. His golfing highlights are making albatross on the 9th hole on the Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa, shooting an under-par round, playing in the Aramco Team Series on the Ladies European Tour and making his one and only hole-in-one at the age of 15 - a long time ago now!

Elliott is currently playing:

Driver: Titleist TSR4

3 wood: Titleist TSi2

Hybrids: Titleist 816 H1

Irons: Mizuno MP5 5-PW

Wedges: Cleveland RTX ZipCore 50, 54, 58

Putter: Odyssey White Hot OG #5

Ball: Srixon Z Star XV