It’s been six weeks since the Players Championship was suddendly cancelled and it will be close to eight weeks before the planned restart to the PGA Tour at the intended June 11th Charles Schwab Challenge at Fort Worth in Texas.

For those like Russell Knox who are planning to head to the famed Colonial Club to tee-up in the event it will be a competition break of three-and-a-half months.

Unless out injured, never have any of those plying their trade on any of the world’s leading tours had off so many weeks but at least now Knox has a restart date, and if COVID-19 fears ease, that he can work toward.

Knox explained:- “Since the Players, I haven’t been to the golf course once,” he said.  “I had been hitting balls into a net at the back of our house and I’ve done that three times, so far.  So really, I haven’t done much with my golf clubs and I have really enjoyed having this kind of little break from golf.

Lunch on big green egg 🐟 ⁦@vineyardvines⁩ ⁦@SrixonGolf⁩ pic.twitter.com/Zdd9A76khj

— Russell Knox (@rooknox) March 24, 2020

“I felt like I needed this break and I think a lot of us players would agree a little break can be good for you especially looking at the new schedule coming up mid-June.

“Also, I am one of those even over the Christmas/New Year period who find it hard not to keep training and keep working on your game, so looking back on this period it will have been quite good for a people’s careers going forward to have had this really good break in the middle of the year this year.

“There will have been guys carrying niggling little injuries and they will get back onto the Tour mid-June never being so fit.”

Knox has posted some great tweets showing him sleeping-in and also out back of he and wife, Andrea’s house, cooking-up a storm on their ‘Big Green Egg’.

So, he was asked what does a normal day in these abnormal Coronavirus pandemic times entail.

“All I do is wake-up, eat and work-out, and eat and go to sleep (laughing),” he said.

“I don’t know if I’m in the best shape of my life right now or not because I get onto the scales and they keep going up-and-up,  so I don’t know whether it’s muscle or fat or both (laughing).

“I have been speaking with my team and I spoke the morning of the rescheduling news with Bradley (Whittle – caddy) about the release of this updated schedule and what not while I’ve spoken to my trainer and those who I have been working for a while.

“So, we’ve been in contact in relation to a workout routine but no direct golf talk as I’ve found it difficult to find the motivation to want be ready to go back to the range simply because of the uncertainty, prior to the release of the new schedule, as to when we were going to restart.

“Most knew we were planning to restart at the Colonial in Fort Worth and now we have a confirmed date I can now begin to focus fully in preparing for that event.”