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PGA Tour: Proposed Schedule Could Produce Fantastic Fall

By Tim Letcher

FARMINGDALE, NEW YORK - MAY 19: Brooks Koepka of the United States poses with the Wanamaker Trophy during the Trophy Presentation Ceremony after winning the final round of the 2019 PGA Championship at the Bethpage Black course on May 19, 2019 in Farmingdale, New York. (Photo by Ross Kinnaird/Getty Images)
FARMINGDALE, NEW YORK - MAY 19: Brooks Koepka of the United States poses with the Wanamaker Trophy during the Trophy Presentation Ceremony after winning the final round of the 2019 PGA Championship at the Bethpage Black course on May 19, 2019 in Farmingdale, New York. (Photo by Ross Kinnaird/Getty Images) /
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The PGA Tour schedule proposed by golf’s major governing bodies could produce an amazing finish this fall. Find out why here.

The R&A, the PGA Tour, the USGA, Augusta National and the PGA of America released a statement on Monday, basically laying out the professional golf schedule for the remainder of the 2020 season.

There were bits of good news and bad news in the statement. The bad news is that the 2020 Open Championship has been canceled. Not postponed, but canceled, meaning there will be no Open Championship this year.

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The good news in the statement was that the other three majors (the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and the Masters), the FedEx Cup playoffs and the Ryder Cup all remain on the schedule. The governing bodies hope that the effects of the coronavirus will have subsided enough for the PGA Tour to resume action at some point in June.

If the schedule proposed on Monday holds, golf fans could be in for an epic fall schedule. It would begin with the PGA Championship at Harding Park in San Francisco Aug. 6-9.

The FedEx Cup playoffs would start Aug. 13 and would conclude on Labor Day weekend. After one week off, the USGA would hold the U.S. Open at Winged Foot Sept. 17-20.

The following week, the Ryder Cup would be held at Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wisconsin. That’s going to be tough for the 24 players who are selected to play in the event, having just competed in a major the week before.

The season would include the Masters, Nov. 12-15, giving perhaps the most prominent major an entirely new look, with it being played in the fall.

The canceling and postponing of many tournaments has created an entirely unique situation for the 2020 season. And none of these changes are set in stone at this point.

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If golfers and golf fans can show patience and get through the current tough stretch that the world is experiencing, the fall golf schedule could be the huge reward that we all deserve at the end of a trying time in the world. It could be a fantastic finish that will make up for a large portion of the schedule being lost this year.

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