The PGA Tour plans to announce that the remaining events of this season will be played without fans or pro-am, multiple sources told Golf Channel.
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Next week’s Memorial was scheduled to be the first event since the COVID-19 pandemic stopped the game in March to be played with fans, although the plan included a limited footprint of around 8,000 fans per day. Last week the Tour reversed course and announced that the event will take place without fans.
PGA Tour changes course: no fans are admitted to the Memorial
On Monday, the Tour will extend that plan to play fanless to the remaining nine events of the season, including FedExCup’s three playoffs and next month’s PGA Championship.
The move to play fanless for the rest of the season is a response to the rise in coronavirus epidemics across the country.
In last week’s announcement that they had no fans at the Memorial, Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan referred to “the broader challenges communities are facing” and said that attention was now focused on “health and safety of everyone involved “. The commissioner added that the tour would welcome fans, “when the time is right”.
It is unclear whether the Tour plans to allow fans in the fall at the start of the 2020-21 program.
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