Coronavirus: PGA Tour announces schedule for rest of 2020

On Wednesday, news leaked that the PGA Tour planned to resume action – it shut down following the first round of the Players Championship in mid-March due to the coronavirus – starting June 11 with the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas. On Thursday, the Tour released the schedule for the rest of the year.

Needless to say, this is all dependent on the virus being under control, and fans will not be allowed for at least the first four tournaments and perhaps much longer. Three invitationals on the schedule, the Charles Schwab Challenge (120 players), RBC Heritage (132 players) and the Memorial Tournament (120 players), will have their field sizes increase to 144.

While several events have been/will be outright canceled this year, the A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier will not be a part of the 2020-21 fall schedule and will not return in the future in West Virginia. It was a "mutual agreement" between the PGA Tour and event organizers. That was the only professional event of any kind annually in West Virginia.

That tournament began in 2010 -- Stuart Appleby fired a final-round 59 to win -- and ran every year but 2016 when it was canceled due to massive flooding in the area. The 2020 Greenbrier was originally slated for Sept. 10-13, but now the Safeway Open will slot there.

If the Tour can restart its schedule in June as planned, it will play 36 events in 2019-20, including the three postseason tournaments. Twenty-two tournaments have been played thus far.

The new 2020-21 wraparound schedule now will consist of six major championships because the U.S. Open and Masters are part of the fall schedule this year and then still played in their normal slots in 2021. The PGA Championship is still part of the 2019-20 slate, and the 2020 British Open was canceled.

Here's the schedule per PGATour.com (start dates mark the beginning of tournament week, not the first Thursday of competition).

• June 8-14: Charles Schwab Challenge, Colonial Country Club, Fort Worth, Texas
• June 15-21: RBC Heritage, Harbour Town Golf Links, Hilton Head, South Carolina
• June 22-28: Travelers Championship, TPC River Highlands, Cromwell, Connecticut
• July 2-5: Rocket Mortgage Classic, Detroit Golf Club, Detroit, Michigan
• July 6-12: John Deere Classic, TPC Deere Run, Silvis, Illinois
• July 13-19: The Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide, Muirfield Village Golf Club, Dublin, Ohio
• July 20-26: 3M Open, TPC Twin Cities, Blaine, Minnesota
• July 27-August 2: World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, TPC Southwind, Memphis, Tennessee
• July 27-August 2: Barracuda Championship, Tahoe Mountain Club (Old Greenwood), Truckee, California
• August 3-9: PGA Championship, TPC Harding Park, San Francisco, California
• 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 Country Club (North), Olympia Fields, Illinois
• August 31-September 7: Tour Championship, East Lake Golf Club, Atlanta, Georgia

Start of 2020-21 wraparound schedule

• September 7-13: Safeway Open, Silverado Resort and Spa North, Napa, California
• September 14-20: U.S. Open, Winged Foot Golf Club, Mamaroneck, New York
• September 21-27: Ryder Cup, Whistling Straits, Kohler, Wisconsin
• September 21-27: Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship, Corales Golf Club, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
• September 28-October 4: Sanderson Farms Championship, Country Club of Jackson, Jackson, Mississippi
• October 5-11: Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, TPC Summerlin, Las Vegas, Nevada
• October 12-18: The CJ Cup @ Nine Bridges, Nine Bridges, Jeju Island, Korea
• October 19-25: Zozo Championship, Accordia Golf Narashino Country Club, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
• October 26-November 1: World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions, Sheshan International Golf Club, Shanghai, China
• October 26-November 1: Bermuda Championship, Port Royal Golf Course, Southampton, Bermuda
• November 2-8: Houston Open, Memorial Park Golf Course, Houston, Texas
• November 9-15: Masters Tournament, Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia
• November 16-22: The RSM Classic, Sea Island Resort (Seaside and Plantation), Sea Island, Georgia
• November 23-29: No events (Thanksgiving)
• November 30-December 6: Mayakoba Golf Classic, El Camaleón Golf Club, Playa del Carmen, Mexico
• November 30-December 6: Hero World Challenge, Albany, New Providence, Bahamas