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It could become ‘unbearable’ at the Bear’s Club. This will be the scenario with the PGA and European Tour’s in shut down mode and the Masters postponed leaving the world’s leading pros with no formal competition. It’s a worldwide sporting cancellation scenario not witnessed on a scale since World War 11 as the Coronavirus pandemic spreads unchecked. And while tournament golf, both professional and leading amateur events, has been stopped there’s now sure to be a rush ...

Port St. Lucie, FL … Six-time champion Jack Nicklaus believes those running the Masters should cancel this year’s now postponed Major rather than the risk of any health scares. Augusta National Chairman Fred Ridley announced mid-morning Friday (Local US time) the year’s first Major would be postponed to later in the year and hopefully when fears of the deadly Coronavirus have eased. The Masters is traditionally the first Major the New Year and only three-times in the club’s 85-year history ...

Ponte Vedre, FL …. Shane Lowry revealed he and his young family will remain in the US at their rented premises on the Ballen Isle estate at Palm Beach Gardens in Florida rather than return home to Ireland. Lowry, and like all 142 colleagues contesting the PGA Tour’s premier event, were still allowing to sink-in the decision to cancel the event and the next four on the PGA Tour schedule up to the week prior the Masters. Then while the players were arriving to the TPC Sawgrass clubhouse ...

Ponte Vedre, FL.. As World No. 1 Rory McIlroy rightly hightlighted, it was an ‘eerie’ morning driving up to the TPC Sawgrass clubhouse to clean out his locker on a gorgeous cloudless Friday morning in mid-March. The decision by the PGA to cancel not only the Players Championship but also the ensuing four events up to the week prior to Augusta National was expected but when confirmed it left all and sundry in a state of ‘where do we go next’. Martin Laird and Russell Knox joined ...

Ponte Vedre, FL … Scotland’s top-ranked Robert MacIntyre along with his PGA Tour based Tartan compatriots Russell Knox and Martin Laird will not get to qualify for any planned rescheduled Masters later this year. The decision by Augusta National to postpone the 84th hosting came mid-morning Friday (US time) as Knox and Laird joined their PGA Tour colleagues in cleaning-out their TPC Sawgrass lockers following the cancellation of the Players Championship. Also cancelled is the next four events ...

Ponte Vedre, FL …  If there’s a positive to come from Augusta National postponing next month’s Masters it will Graeme McDowell bizarrely will qualify. This will be the scenario should Augusta reschedule the event, and they seemingly plan to do, for later in the year. McDowell arrived at the now cancelled Players Championship lying 51st on the World Rankings (OWGR) and with the Wentworth-based body confirming the Irish golfer will move back two places to 49th heading into next week’s ...

Ponte Vedre, FL … There is the lighter side as World No. 1 Rory McIlroy will be heading into a next tournament, and whenever that may be, having birdied his last three holes at the now cancelled Players Championship in Florida. Though it was the darker side and continuing fears of the Coronavirus pandemic that had McIlroy admitting it was an ‘eerie’ feeling driving into the palatial grounds of the TPC  Sawgrass complex and with just the sight of gate attendants, a handful of officials ...