Waugh: PGA Championship Prepared To Play Without Fans

GolfDigest.com’s Daniel Rappaport sums up PGA of America CEO Seth Waugh’s comments to satellite radio.

In short, the PGA of America is confident they will play a “fairly normal” PGA at TPC Harding Park rescheduled for early August.

“If the safest and/or the only way to [hold the PGA] is to do it without fans, we’re fully prepared to do that,” Waugh said. “We believe that having it as a television event is worth doing regardless of whether there’s fans there or not.

“Obviously that’ll change the experience, but we think the world is starved for entertainment—particularly in sports—and we think golf has the unique ability to be first out among sports in that we’re played over a couple hundred acres.”

Oh no, the acreage thing again.

Anyway, Gavin Newsom, the Golden State’s Governor, spoke today and presented primary issues as part of a three-state effort to restart the west coast economy. He indicated that large gatherings will almost assuredly be unlikely this August:

Gov. Newsom: “The prospect of mass gatherings is negligible at best until we get to herd immunity or a vaccine.”

But... “Things can change radically” if there’s therapeutics and tracing.

Says any sort of large gathering of strangers in June, July, August is extremely unlikely

— Dieter Kurtenbach (@dieter) April 14, 2020

Here is the clip of Waugh speaking to Sirius/XM’s Dave Marr:

.@PGA CEO Seth Waugh currently has 3 plans for the @PGAChampionship scheduled August 6th-9th at @TPCHardingPark:

Plan A) Hold it as normal with fans
Plan B) Hold it as normal without fans
Plan C) Stage it at another site pic.twitter.com/uc6CeT5vPf

— SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio (@SiriusXMPGATOUR) April 14, 2020