The women’s golf tour (LPGA) announced a new competition calendar on the 29th, and it is planned to re-new start the game suspended due to the cause of the new coronavirus epidemic in mid-July.
Xinhua News Agency, Washington, April 29 (reporter Wang Jiyi) the women’s golf tour (LPGA) announced a new calendar on the 29th, which is scheduled to be suspended in mid-July by new start of the cause of the new coronavirus epidemic.
In This adjusted calendar, LPGA plans to restart the season at an event in Michigan on July 15-18, followed by almost weekly events, which have been in full swing until the end of the year, it ends with the final U.S. Women’s Open and the CME Tour tournament.
If this arrangement can be put into practice, it will mean that there are not many games abandoned by LPGA this season due to the epidemic, but it will also make the players very busy. In addition, if the epidemic continues to be postponed, these events will have no time to reschedule this year.
Whine, the president of LPGA, said: “This new competition calendar is very busy, and we have tens of millions of dollars in total with no host. In the past two months, our season has been in a mess, but now we still hope to provide opportunities for players to enjoy the competition.”
Previously, LPGA planned to re-start the competition in June, but the epidemic developed rapidly in the United States, and all parties involved in the competition still took more prudent view. Huyne said that “safety is more important than restarting the game” when the epidemic is still not take control “.
In the middle of this month, the men’s golf tour announced that it would start again in June, but fans would be rejected in the first few events. In this regard, huyne said LPGA will keep close attention to men’s events, hoping to gain more experience in running competitions.
He said: “I know we can also adopt a more radical competition plan, but I think it should be conservative, which may be the right way. If it turns out that we started a little late, at least we can get experience in dealing with the epidemic from the rest of the events. If the game environment is not safe, we will not restart the game. It is not only the safety of players, staff and fans, but also the safety of the competition city. I hope that when the competition really starts, people in the competition place have no psychological burden like me, which is the most appropriate time.”
At present, LPGA has not decided whether it should play “empty” or not. Huine said it would make a decision when the competition period is approaching.