LPGA commissioner Mike Whan believes testing for COVID-19 could be in large supply by the end of May, but he’s building a safety net by pushing back his tour’s re-start another month to mid-July.
He wants to make sure his staff and players have a handle on how testing will work in a revamped world of competition.
He also wants to make sure the communities they are visiting feel good about testing’s prevalence with a global roster of players coming their way.
“I think we’ve bought ourselves a month’s worth of safety and probably sanity, in terms of availability,” Whan said Wednesday in a conference call.