Lee Westwood withdrew from the 2018 PGA Championship because of a back injury, marking the first time he missed the tournament since 1996. He’ll miss it again in 2020...but not because of an injury.
Despite the lifting of a two-week quarantine, Westwood, a two-time PGA winner who finished tied for fourth in the 2020 Honda Classic, won’t play in next week’s WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational in Memphis or the 2020 PGA Championship in two weeks in San Francisco, saying he’s “still more concerned that America doesn’t take [COVID-19] as seriously as the rest of the world.