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Bermuda Championship: closed session!

2020-10-27T14:47:52.885Z


PRESENTATION - For the first time since the resumption of the game on June 11, the PGA Tour allows this week in the Bahamas the presence of spectators (500 per day). An initiative which should not however be renewed in the coming weeks in the United States ...


The Bermuda Championship 2020 will go down in PGA Tour history as the first post-Covid tournament to allow spectators to attend.

The officials of the US circuit and the government of Bermuda have indeed jointly granted the authorization of a limited number of spectators (500 per day).

Protocols for the latter will include temperature checks, wearing face masks at the entrance and around the golf course, social distancing with more than two meters of separation and the use of hand sanitizer, with dispensers located throughout the site, including entrances, washrooms and concession locations.

For the safety of spectators and players, however, autographs will not be permitted. 

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An initiative that should however remain without a future since the virus is still as virulent on American soil.

Barring a miracle, we will therefore go back in camera at the Vivint Houston Open (November 5-8), Texas currently recording a clear rebound in positive cases, while the Masters (November 12-15), we are knows, will be played without "bosses".

Second in name, the Bermuda Championship, an alternate tournament last year, offers its full FedEx points (500) this year but remains mostly shunned by the best golfers on the planet.

With the exception of the American Brendon Todd, 41st player in the world and title holder, no resident of the top 50 has made the trip to the Bahamas.

In Todd's wake, we find the Swede Henrik Stenson (54th), the Englishman Danny Willett (56th) or the revelation of the year, the resident of the Korn Ferry Tour, Will Zalatoris (59th worldwide), very close to earn a temporary green fee on the PGA Tour.

A $ 15 million facelift 

Host of this Bermuda Championship ($ 4 million endowment), the Port Royal Golf Course in Southampton is a regular at golf games.

The Oceanside Course, a par 71 of 6,244 meters designed by Robert Trent Jones, has frequently organized in the recent past the Grand Slam of Golf, an exhibition tournament bringing together the four winners of the year in Major.

In order to receive a PGA Tour event, he also underwent a serious makeover of around $ 15 million.

In order to perpetuate its presence on the most popular of the professional circuits for many more years ... 

Bermuda Championship (PGA Tour) - $ 4,000,000 endowment (3,381,815 euros endowment)

Players to watch

Brendon Todd (USA), Wesley Bryan (USA), Rafa Cabrera-Bello (Esp), Stewart Cink (USA), Branden Grace (AfS), Emiliano Grillo (Arg), Charley Hoffman (USA), Russell Knox (Eco), Peter Malnati (USA), Denny McCarthy (USA), Tyler McCumber (USA), Henrik Norlander (Sue), Pat Perez (USA), Doc Redman (USA), Henrik Stenson (Sue), Justin Suh (USA), Hudson Swafford (USA), Harold Varner III (USA), Kristoffer Ventura (Nor), Danny Willett (Ang), Aaron Wise (USA), Will Zalatoris (USA). 

To watch the Bermuda Championship (PGA Tour) on TV:

Thursday 29 October, 1st round: 5:00 p.m. (Golf +);

00:14 (Canal + Sport)

Friday October 30, 2nd round: 5:00 p.m. (Golf +);

00:46 (Canal + Sport)

Saturday October 31, 3rd round: 5:00 p.m. (Golf +);

10:56 p.m. (Canal + Sport)

Sunday November 1, 4th round: 5:00 p.m. (Golf +);

11:27 p.m. (Canal + Sport)

Source: lefigaro

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