Three Majors Rescheduled; FedEx Playoffs on; PGA Tour Adds Events
The news that golfers and golf fans had been waiting on came on Monday, when three majors announced their rescheduled 2020 dates.
In a major announcement today, the PGA Tour, in conjunction with other golf organizations, released new dates for three majors: the PGA Championship, the U.S. Open and the Masters. In addition, several PGA Tour events, perhaps some of those that were cancelled, will be plugged into the current 2020 PGA Tour schedule. The August events on the PGA Tour were shuffled one week forward.
“We appreciate the open and collaborative approach taken by each of our tournaments, title sponsors and media partners to get us to this solution,” PGA TOUR Commissioner Jay Monahan said. He called the situation complex.
Actually it’s the news all golf fans have been waiting for, the new dates for the majors. And the fact that golf will again be played.
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The Masters will now be played November 9-15, 2020.
The PGA Championship will now be played August 3-9, 2020, at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco.
The U.S. Open will be played September 14-20 at Winged Foot in New York.
The Ryder Cup will be played as scheduled September 22-27, at Whistling Straits, in Kohler, Wisconsin.
The British Open is cancelled and all courses will host that championship one year later than originally planned.
In addition, in the places left vacant by the U.S. Open, the British Open and the Olympics, the PGA Tour will attempt to schedule a PGA Tour event.
That would include the week of June 15-21, which was originally for the U.S. Open, the week of July 13-19, which was originally the British Open date, and the week of July 27- August 2, which was originally the week set aside for the Olympics.
The Wyndham, FedExCup Playoffs and the Tour Championship will finish after Labor Day, as follows:
August 10-16 – Wyndham Championship, Sedgefield Country Club, Greensboro, North Carolina
August 17-23 – The Northern Trust, TPC Boston, Norton, Massachusetts
August 24-30 – BMW Championship, Olympia Fields CC, Olympia Fields, Illinois
August 31-September 7 (Labor Day) – TOUR Championship, East Lake Golf Club, Atlanta, Georgia.
The LPGA has also rescheduled the ANA Inspiration to the week of September 7 at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California, and the U.S. Women’s Open, to the week of December 7 at Champions Golf Club in Houston, Texas.
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There is no word yet on the rescheduling of any other PGA Tour events or on PGA Tour Champions events.