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Nick Watney eager to shift focus from COVID-19 back to on-course play

After finishing his opening round at the 3M Open, Nick Watney was eager to face a line of questions from reporters that focused largely on the scorecard.

"It's really nice to be in here talking about golf and not about other things," Watney said.

Those other things, of course, would be the COVID-19 pandemic that disrupted the PGA Tour's 2020 schedule and continues to loom over each weekly stop. Watney made headlines when he became the first Tour player to test positive for coronavirus, a result that sparked his abrupt withdrawal from the RBC Heritage last month.