Another Monday passes without a Limerick Summary. But lifestyles is going on and, over the past week, the PGA Tour has posted a tentative agenda, proven beneath. (The asterisks mark FedExCup activities.)
But it's hardly ever set in stone. The Tour has stated that they anticipate to announce greater changes, and you may guess that a few will originate from the venues and sponsors themselves.
| DATE | EVENT | LOCATION |
|---|---|---|
| May 21-24 | Charles Schwab Challenge | Colonial CC, Fort Worth, Texas |
| May 28-31 | Rocket Mortgage Classic | Detroit Golf Club, Detroit, Mich. |
| June 4-7 | Memorial Tournament | Muirfield Village GC, Dublin, Ohio |
| June 11-14 | RBC Canadian Open | St. George's G&CC, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| June 18-21 | Potential PGA Tour event | TBD |
| June 25-28 | Travelers Championship | TPC River Highlands, Cromwell, Conn. |
| July 2-5 | Barracuda Championship | Tahoe Mt. Club (Old Greenwood), Truckee, Calif. |
| July 2-5 | WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational | TPC Southwind, Memphis, Tenn. |
| July 9-12 | John Deere Classic | TPC Deere Run, Silvis, Ill. |
| July 16-19 | Barbasol Championship | Keene Trace Golf Club, Nicholasville, Ky. |
| July 23-26 | 3M Open | TPC Twin Cities, Blaine, Minn. |
| July 30-Aug. 2 | Potential PGA Tour event | TBD |
| Aug. 6-9 | PGA Championship | TPC Harding Park, San Francisco, Calif. |
| Aug. 13-16 | Wyndham Championship | Sedgefield CC, Greensboro, N.C. |
| Aug. 20-23 | The Northern Trust* | TPC Boston, Norton, Mass. |
| Aug. 27-30 | BMW Championship* | Olympia Fields CC (North), Olympia Fields, Ill. |
| Sept. 4-7 | Tour Championship* | East Lake GC, Atlanta, Ga. |
| Sept. 17-20 | U.S. Open | Winged Foot GC, Mamaroneck, N.Y. |
| Sept. 25-27 | Ryder Cup | Whistling Straits (Straits Course), Kohler, Wis. |
| Nov. 12-15 | Masters Tournament | Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Ga. |
For example, Jack Nicklaus has already said that he doubts the Memorial could be played in June as originally scheduled. He says the week of the now cancelled OPEN, opposite the Barbasol Open (an alternate field event one month later), is more likely.
It's also likely that some sponsors of earlier events will hesitate to go ahead with those dates, simply because they feel uncomfortable playing while so many people are still struggling with the effects of COVID-19. The Tour's belief that they can run some of the earlier events without fans on site may not convince those sponsors otherwise -- remember, several sports had similar plans early on but cancelled them when the sponsors balked under social pressure.
Nevertheless, planning -- at least, of a tentative nature -- has to start now if the Tour has any hopes of getting any events ready to go when the time is right.
It's just that the "right time" is merely a concept at this point. It may be closer to June before we have any clue about when that is.
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