After a three-month absence for the COVID-19 pandemic, the PGA Tour returned on Thursday to a different world.
The tour’s best golfers not named Tiger Woods teed off at the Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, Thursday for the first tournament since The Players Championship was canceled mid-tournament on March 12.
They did so without a gallery, as fans remained barred while the coronavirus maintains its foothold in the United States. And they saved the 8:46 a.m. tee time to commemorate George Floyd, whose death on May 25 has sparked a reckoning on race relations in the United States.