BANDON, Ore. – Over 1,700 on-site COVID-19 tests were conducted earlier this week at the U.S. Amateur.
Just two players tested positive. Both withdrew prior to teeing it up.
One of them was Cohen Trolio, the 18-year-old who last summer advanced all the way to the semifinals at Pineehurst. This time around, Trolio’s U.S. Amateur was over before it even started.
“We’re disappointed, obviously,” Trolio’s dad, V.J., told Mississippi Todayas he and his son made the 2,550-mile car trip back to their home in West Point, Mississippi. “We were told that of all the [264] entrants, just two tested positive.