The rest of the PGA Tour events and all men’s golf major championships except the Masters have announced plans to play without spectators.
The outlook for fans attending a major men’s golf championship this year grew bleaker on Wednesday when officials for the 2020 United States Open announced the event in Westchester County, N. Y., would be conducted without spectators. Next week’s P. G. A. Championship, in San Francisco, the first golf major championship this year, had already barred fans from attending. That leaves the Masters, in November, in Augusta, Ga., as the only men’s major yet to prohibit spectators. Leaders at the Augusta National Golf Club, which runs the Masters, have not publicly commented on their decision-making regarding fans. In April, this year’s British Open, scheduled for July, was canceled. The PGA Tour scrapped plans to have spectators at an Ohio tournament this month and has said it will not host fans at its remaining events this season. On the L. P. G. A. Tour, which is resuming this week after a lengthy layoff caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the first five events will be absent of fans. The men’s and women’s tours have not made final decisions about admitting spectators for tournaments late in the year, which is actually the beginning of next season.
