Cameron Champ Covid 19

[Trap Junior]

Think its only a matter of time before the Tour is cancelled again. There will be new cases every week.

[j8979]

This is going to keep happening until a vaccine is found. Are you suggesting cancelling the tour indefinitely until then?

[00steven]

The outcry will be too much. I believe the tour will be postponed. Odds are we won’t get back to normal until spring.

[Darth Putter]

It's only a matter of time until this thread is locked, because we're not allowed to talk about this.

 

In the meantime, here are the Bee Gees...

 

 

[mcputter]

I don't think he played last week at Harbor Town. I think he caught it outside of the Tour. Life happens, he's a seemingly otherwise healthy 25 year old- he should be OK. Hope he gets over it quickly and returns to the Tour.

[bscinstnct]

Put it this way.

 

If people can go to Walmart

 

These guys decide if they want to play.

[Mr. Grumpy]

People at Walmart ain't protecting others, I see maybe 50% masks. This will not end well...

[Rob G 89]

Where in the forum rules does it say? Always see people talking and science and health In other threads

[golfandfishing]

Why? The point of testing is to identify infected people then separate them from the healthy. This is what is supposed to happen. It will be 10 years before no one has this any longer. At least.

[Trap Junior]

I dont know what the answer is. I cant see the tour continuing if each week say 3 or 4 guys are diagnosed and then 2 days later some new player shows symptoms. ITs a bad look.

The young guys will be. Its the people they come in contact with that's the problem.

From watching tv the players and caddies are not taking it seriously. They were fistpumping in week 1. They were not supposed to have caddies touching clubs and they do. The caddies were supposed to stay 6ft away. They didnt. The tour were supposed to all travel together. That hasnt happened. Players are going out to restaurants and mixing with the public. No surprise at all.

I dont see 2021 going to plan either. This virus is going to hang around for a long time and do a lot more disruption and deaths before its done.

[Soloman1]

Now now, boys and girls. The Chinese government, I mean the censors, don't want you talking about "you know what." They'll be along any minute to shut this down.

 

Here, look at this shiny new putter over here.

[bscinstnct]

 

Exactly, and people still go. imagine if to go to Walmart, everyone who went in had to be tested first?

 

 

I think with the resources the tour has, they can figure out how to let these guys play a game where you don’t have to come within 10 feet of each other.

[Trap Junior]

Social distancing can easily be done but the players and caddies don't seem to take it seriously enough . Personally I blame a cushy lifestyle where they don't really live in the real world in their gated communities and think they are immune from normal life. They need to wise up and get real.

[Krt22]

He said he felt perfectly fine. As testing ramps and is more widespread, we will just see more and more mild and asymptomatic cases.

[Jagpilotohio]

In before the lock!

 

Multiple threads on this have been locked. They all degenerate into something that isn’t really golf related. Anger, name calling, politics, etc.

[Mr. Grumpy]

Which is why it will be extremely difficulty to continue. Like Trap said, they could not get the first week right. People are just not taking is serious enough to protect each other, even with golf being one of the safer sports to participate in. Should be a no brainer, but it's proving to be difficult. And at the end of the day COVID don't care.

[Ronnie Mundt]

Sure, but having it and getting over it is starting to not sound as peachy as it once was. Like a cold you can get it again. If you get it again, you may have antibodies to ward it off, or you may not if the virus mutates. We just don’t know enough about it to say unequivocally that if you have it and recover, that you will be OK in the long run. The tour is playing with fire here, but at the end of the day, they are a business just like any other. Look no further than the airline industry to be reminded of how nuts things are right now. I can drive to an airport after I’m done typing this and fly pretty much anywhere in the world and I won’t be told to wear a mask or have my temperature checked through any of it? Why? Well because that would be a massive business hurdle and the airline lobby is strong; maybe the strongest of them all. Air travel is the most regulated activity, perhaps of them all, and yet there is been no imposition of requiring passengers to wear masks or be tested before hopping on a plane with potentially hundreds of other people and practically sitting on top of each other. Bonkers, really.

[Mr. Grumpy]

Most if not all airlines now require masks to be worn..

[PhilsFanDrew]

The reason the Tour shut down at first was because the virus was a wildcard, an unknown and they were doing their part along with the rest of the country to flatten the curve. Also the downtime allowed the Tour to piece together it's policy and procedures to deal with operations in the midst of a pandemic.

If people were expecting for this to go on and only a handful of players/personnel would test positive over the span of the rest of the season they were kidding themselves. There are NHL, MLB, and College FB teams that have more than a handful of players that have currently tested positive. I think as long as they can reasonably field events they will keep going.

[ChillyDipper]

Who wants to give me odds there will be 2 additional player or caddie cases by Sunday?

[bscinstnct]

Look, these guys on now live!

And you sayin the golfers can’t walk like 2 miles apart from each other.

Pahhh (my first use of, “pahhh”, must be getting old ; )

 

[Ronnie Mundt]

It’s the situation where one thing is being said, but hop on a plane and see what transpires. There should be a whole host of other restrictions. Back to golf though, I’m curious to see what the Tour does here. I think reminding the players and caddies about what they should be doing, and the players/caddies obeying and setting a good example would be a great move. Hell, even enforce some stroke penalties if they won’t do it for slow play!

[Mr. Grumpy]

No I totally get it, much the same with anything public. People seemingly just do not care. No matter where I go, I see people casually going about as if there is no virus. The PGA being the first(?) pro sport to resume should try to set an example for other to follow.

My best guess is that they will begin to cancel events. Sadly this seems to be happening with all sports, well maybe not E sports.

[tiderider]

the chance he got it from the tour is probably very small, compared to other sources ...

[Man_O_War]

if they keep their mouth shut...and not sneeze...

[Mr. Blutarski]

Kind of like the flu vaccine?

[Man_O_War]

Tiger's had fusion surgery and umpteen others... he is smart for staying away.. a friend with similar surgery was advised to be uber careful.

[dalehead]

How about no caddies? Players use push carts, get their own yardages(maybe range finders), read their own putts. One volunteer is stationed at each green to rake bunkers. No touching the flag stick, leave it in the hole.

[oikos1]

Where he got it from is completely irrelevant. That's the problem with understanding how this virus moves through the human population. The point is he is on The PGA Tour and is infected. That jeopardizes everyone else on the tour. Period. End of story. This is going to be a problem.

[nsxguy]

"Anger, name calling, politics, etc."

THIS

At least one mod made it clear these threads were locked because posters can't control themselves.

I suspect if you keep anger, name calling, etc. OUT of your posts and discuss the subject like adults the thread will stay up.