“We wanted to be able to look back at this a week after the tournament and say, ‘OK, we did that as safe as we possibly could.”’
CROMWELL, Conn. — The tournament director for this week’s Travelers Championship had an idea. How about filling the natural amphitheatre around the 18th green at TPC River Highlands with giant video boards showing fans watching the golf and cheering from home.
In the end, Grube said officials decided to keep it as a TV-only event. There will be no Zoom boards, no hospitality tents, no VIPs, not even golfers’ wives or children in Cromwell for the third PGA Tournment to be held during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Travelers will be the first held in its regular time and place on the schedule.
The top five golfers in the world ranking — Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm, Justin Thomas, Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson — will be there. So will fan favourites such as three-time champion Bubba Watson, two-time champion Phil Mickelson and 2017 champion Jordan Spieth. Fifteen of the top 20 golfers in the world are in the field.
Ed Wenners and his wife Evelyn live in a house overlooking the 13th fairway. For them, Travelers week is like Christmas, New Year’s Day and the Fourth of July rolled into one big holiday, Ed said. Normally they would host about 25 family members and friends, some from out of state, for a catered party during the final round on Sunday.“I’ll sit back with a chicken wing in one hand. a beer in the other. and watch it go by me,” Wenners said. “We’ll have the TV on, too.
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