PGA Tour-China season canceled Canadian Tour to host qualifying activities in U.S. | Golfing Environment
The PGA Tour declared Friday that its China collection has canceled its season because of to the coronavirus pandemic.
The circuit, a single of the tour’s intercontinental developmental leagues, was just one of the very first specialist sporting functions to halt play in 2020 amid the COVID-19 outbreak. According to a PGA Tour statement, attempts were made to host a 2021 campaign but the ongoing health and fitness crisis introduced obstructions “too complicated to overcome.”
“We keep on being dedicated to the area and want to do every thing we can to give competitive options for players in Asia and from the Pacific Rim,” said Greg Carlson, PGA Tour Sequence-China executive director. “We are attempting to go after other possibilities for our players to engage in in 2021. We will also choose this pause and examine what we might be able to do in 2022.”
The tour also furnished updates on two of its other feeder circuits, the Mackenzie (Canada) and PGA Tour Latinoamérica. The Mackenzie will host a series of qualifying tournaments in purchase to fill out its 2021 membership. Though the Canadian border is presently closed to non-critical vacation, the tour will carry out these activities commencing in February in get to prepare for the restriction’s eventual lifting, permitting the Mackenzie Tour to get started functions in late May. Six qualifiers will be held in the United States, just one in British Columbia.
“Because the bulk of those are held in the U.S., where permitted, we will carry on with these tournaments in a harmless and dependable fashion,” claimed Scott Pritchard, Mackenzie Tour govt director. “Once those tournaments are finished and we have a membership, we will be in a place to conduct a period when we are given the go-in advance from the various wellbeing authorities with which we are in dialogue.
The Mackenzie Tour will announce its official timetable, with a year ranging from late Might to mid September, in the close to upcoming.
As for the PGA Tour Latinoamérica, the tour will announce its timetable in the next couple weeks, with an predicted restart (very similar to the Korn Ferry Tour, it will use a wrap-close to period format) in March.