After 91 days since the paralysis of the The Players Championship de golf, on June 11, one of the favorite sports en De Salas has returned to the fore, leaving the new tournament schedule Yes, with strict sanitary measures in this “new normal.”
The sporting consequences, in the United States alone, affected 25 tournaments in the United States alone. PGA Tour, with 11 canceled and 14 postponed, and some like the british open It will not be played again until 2021. But the green shine again, the fields are filled with 7-irons and the putter They look more shiny than ever.
In these first events of golf, there will be no public and both players and caddies will have to undergo rigorous medical questionnaires before and during the tournament, so much so that every day they will have to pass a Covid-19 and their temperature will be taken, developing a new medical questionnaire.
El Charles Schwab Challenge, the first tournament held post-pandemic, was played to failure and won Daniel Berger to his rival in the tiebreaker, Collin morikawa. Perhaps arriving with the pressure of being one of the sensations of the last generation was against him. Be that as it may, the news is that the golf has returned to our lives.
From now on, the competitions will be recovered little by little, always with the relevant health protocols in each place. For now, yes, the tournament calendar PGA Tour during the summer, began last June 8 in Texas and will continue, if nothing prevents it, until September 7 in the East Lake Golf Club of Atlanta, Ga.
Big like him U.S. Open, initially scheduled for June 18 to 21, will be delayed until September 17 to 20, in the Winged Foot Golf Club of New York, and where we can see some of the most relevant names in this sport.
He too Masters of Augusta, another classic among classics, has seen its celebration date postponed until the month of November, specifically between the 12th and 15th of that month, in which Augusta National Golf Club of Augusta, Georgia, of course. The Ryder Cup It will take place in September, between the 25th and 27th.
All the players have been enthusiastic about the idea of ​​being able to resume the tournaments, although they are aware of the restrictions that they will have to go through, something that seems secondary to them and, of course, necessary to prevent a sports break like this from happening again. this.
Here, in Spain, there are already many fields of golf open where you can enjoy practice, always with measures such as a mask, in groups of four and without touching the flag after playing the hole. The around 400 fields that we have are located in different communities so their de-escalation has been different, but they have all chosen to agree on the same protocol.
The football league is also back, but in De Salas We are especially excited to recover golf and its tournaments, it is a way of looking forward in this new normal to which little by little we are adapting.
Gala Mora
DESALAS Lifestyle
