{"id":28258,"date":"2020-07-16T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/fan-less-pga-tour-events-already-making-massive-difference\/"},"modified":"2020-07-16T01:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T22:30:00","slug":"fan-less-pga-tour-events-already-making-massive-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/fan-less-pga-tour-events-already-making-massive-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"#Fan-less PGA Tour events already making massive difference"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Fan-less PGA Tour events already making massive difference<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n DUBLIN, Ohio \u2014 Consider this scenario:<\/p>\n

Sunday on the first playoff hole of the Workday Charity Open at Muirfield Village, Justin Thomas buries a 50-foot putt for birdie on the 18th hole and the 10,000 fans surrounding the green erupt for several minutes.<\/p>\n

Now Collin Morikawa, faced with a 25-foot birdie putt of his own, has to make it to extend the playoff while possibly rattled by the ear-piercing noise.<\/p>\n

We know, of course, there were no fans surrounding the 18th green and Morikawa, in relative silence, made his 25-footer, extended the playoff and won the tournament on the third playoff hole.<\/p>\n

Now consider this: If there were the usual 10,000 fans ringed around the 18th green delirious over Thomas\u2019 50-foot bomb, would Morikawa have made his 25-footer to stay alive?<\/p>\n

Even Morikawa, in the days following his second career victory, has asked himself this.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve thought about it a lot,\u2019\u2019 Morikawa said. \u201cIf we had fans, I think everything would have been a little different. I would have had to almost wait another two minutes just to even hit that next putt because of the fans, just roars and everything and mumbles after [Thomas] making a 50-footer. Those are the type of putts that you pretty much make to win.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

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Collin Morikawa celebrates with the winner\u2019s trophy after the final round of the Workday Charity Open at Muirfield Golf Club.<\/span>PGA TOUR via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The entire dynamic surely would have been different with fans there. The noise would have been deafening and the buzz from the crowd would have lasted several minutes. And maybe Morikawa\u2019s heart rate spikes a tick or 10 quicker, maybe he flinches, loses concentration, misses the 25-footer and Thomas wins.<\/p>\n

No one will ever know what would have happ<\/a>ened. This, however, is the reality of the PGA Tour likely for the rest of 2020: no fans. This week\u2019s Memorial Tournament will mark the sixth event since the PGA Tour\u2019s restart, and it\u2019s the sixth without fans.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou think of the commotion that would have been happening around that 18th green had there have been fans there,\u2019\u2019 Rory McIlroy said. \u201cIt probably would have taken Collin an extra two or three or four minutes to hit that putt just to let everyone settle down. I definitely think that putt that Collin had to make on top of Justin was a little easier because he didn\u2019t have to deal with 10,000 people around the green having to settle down again.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Tiger Woods said that, with fans present, the Morikawa putt would have been \u201ca lot more difficult\u2019\u2019 because of the \u201cenergy\u2019\u2019 of the fans.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo see J.T. make that putt, he\u2019s screaming, but no one else is screaming,\u2019\u2019 Woods said. \u201cAnd then when Collin makes it \u2014 he didn\u2019t have that much of a reaction \u2014 but the whole hillside on 18 would have just erupted.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

The new reality is no fans until further notice. This week\u2019s Memorial was slated to be the first PGA Tour event to be played with some fans. The plan was for about 8,000 per day, about 20 percent capacity, to be admitted. The governor of Ohio was on board with it, as was tournament host Jack Nicklaus.<\/p>\n

But PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, in consultation with the players, opted against fans largely based on the recent nationwide spike in COVID-19 cases.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t necessarily been in contention the last few times that we\u2019ve played without fans, but if anything I\u2019ve realized personally that it\u2019s very hard for me to keep focus out here,\u2019\u2019 McIlroy said. \u201cI feel like when there\u2019s fans and there\u2019s that energy and the atmosphere, it\u2019s easy to get into that mindset that you need to get into. But when you don\u2019t have that, I felt the first three weeks my mind was wandering a little bit. I think some of the mistakes I was making were because of that.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

McIlroy said he\u2019s glad he\u2019s had three weeks to get acclimated to the new normal \u201cto get a feel for what it was going to be like.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, someone like Tiger hasn\u2019t experienced that yet,\u2019\u2019 McIlroy said of Woods, who\u2019s making his first start of the new schedule. \u201cMaybe he\u2019s going to find it a little weird going out there not having anyone [watching] \u2014 especially with the amount of crowds that he has to deal with all the time when he plays.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Woods said he\u2019s planning to \u201cjust put my head down and play.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cPretty much almost every competitive playing round that I\u2019ve been involved in, I\u2019ve had people around me, spectators yelling, a lot of movement inside the gallery with camera crews and media<\/a>,\u2019\u2019 Woods said. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be different.\u2019\u2019\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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