perhaps The most encouraging news was published, the PGA Tour, before on Thursday at the Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, the first Golf shots at the Charles Schwab Challenge were carried out: According to the three-month forced break of this tournament series was the first of five “Spirit of the tournament” all 467 Corona-Tests for players, Caddies, officials and auxiliary staff in Texas negative. Only in the Korn Ferry Tour, the second division, were tested in a professional and three Caddies positive for the Virus.
Because of these cuts, however, were taken before arrival to the tournament in Ponte Vedra Beach (Florida), and the positively Tested pulled back into home quarantine, had no effect on the sporting. Aside from the lack of spectators, was the glossy-only tournament on the 1940-built club in the greater Dallas/Fort Worth, largely as usual.
The professionals and their bag-carriers tried by the rules of “social distancing”, signs reminded the players not only with the measure of six feet, but also for golfers closer to the opposite two club-lengths, largely to comply with, refused to shake hands and hugs, but in between fell the bosses and their employees were always in the usual working mode: Almost all, contrary to the recommendations of the Tour the clubs. Especially the Caddies had to clean the equipment after each stroke. The flags of the holes were also disinfected in accordance with the Putting.
Harold Varner III is in focus
At the end of the first day, which had been suspended at 8:46 PM – a symbol for the number of minutes that had knelt by the policeman on the neck of the slain George Floyd – a minute of silence, sent the restart of the PGA Tour, if you will, a message of equality between Black and White. After a brilliant round of 63 strokes, seven under the space standard of 70, led namely, the English Olympic champion Justin Rose and Harold Varner III, in addition to Tiger Woods is the only African-Americans with full eligibility to play on the most lucrative tournament series in the world, the 148 strong field.
While Rose, who won this tournament two years ago, belongs to the wider circle of favourites, had to play the 29-year-old Varner, in the world rankings only ranked 124, because of the protests in the United States due to its origin in the run-up to a main role. He took in well-chosen words to the incidents in the country’s position, described in an interview with Jay Monahan, the head of the PGA Tour, his role and excelled in the course.
Varner was celebrated in December last year at the Australian PGA Championship, a tournament that counts both to the Australasian, as well as to the European Tour, his first victory as a professional. He plays for 2016 on the PGA Tour but is still on his premiere success.
