No fans, just have 1 player tee off at a time. We are talking about a golf course. Players cant stay away from each other ? Yes. No ?
I dont see why the PGA cant play right now?
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Yup. There's herd immunity and there's herd mentality.
Golf is easily a sport they could play without fans. Wouldn't make one iota of difference.
I agree, at this point I believe it’s just optics. Golf is seen as an elitist sport. They don’t want to come off as having it look like the “rules” don’t apply to them.
Local economy was not the question at hand. Simply whether or not golf could be safely played.
Our course closed for a month and reopens to members on Thursday. The closure was totally needless in that courses remained open all over South Carolina. The only things our club did correctly were not billing dues for April and aerating the greens while they were closed.
I’m so ready to watch some golf I’ll pay a few of you duffers to tee it up in the field beside my house.
I had signed up to buy tickets to the PGA Championship in Kiawah next May. I got an email a little while ago that they’re delaying the window for ticket purchases until July. Not the tournament itself, but just the purchase window. I’m so over this BS.
I’m guessing it’s money. Sure they have large TV deals but they also have large purses to pay out, employees to pay, and overhead. My guess is they’d lose money with no fans. Able to collect insurance for the events being cancelled. They’ve planned to be back in June.
Right now, if I played in front of you, you would bill me for subjecting you to it.
For sure, golf is one sport in which social distancing is easiest for the participants. Basketball is probably one of the hardest.
How much of an impact do fans have on performance for professional golfers? We know that fans do impact baseball, football, and basketball players (i.e., cheers and jeers), which may make the coming season for each sport "surreal".
Such may also be the case for golfers, for all I know. Even though golf protocol requires spectators to be quiet while a shot is being taken, what impact does their mere presence have on the golfer?
How much of an impact do fans have on performance for professional golfers? We know that fans do impact baseball, football, and basketball players (i.e., cheers and jeers), which may make the coming season for each sport "surreal".
Such may also be the case for golfers, for all I know. Even though golf protocol requires spectators to be quiet while a shot is being taken, what impact does their mere presence have on the golfer?
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Golf, yes. PGA, not so simple.
If money isn't a goal, golf can obviously be played. The PGA's goal and the goal of the golf courses that host tournament is to make money. I don't know, but I would imagine that there are a lot of deals with local economies that come in to play. You can't separate the play on the course from the money it generates.
Fans do have an impact on golf, ask those guys who were behind Jack in 86 in Augusta. Think about "Tiger roars". It gets into other players heads. The Ryder Cup, big impact. That said, I think golf and NASCAR would do well on TV without fans. The other sports would seem very odd without fans.
This may work well for the TV audiences, but I hope that golfing with (almost) nobody around doesn't impact their performance (that much).
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