Ohio Golf Journal May 2020

T he Northern Ohio Golf Association has decided to “run tournaments the way players expect NOGA to run tournaments.” Instead of running May events as previously scheduled and using tournament rules and operational setups that might be T he Memorial, the Marathon Classic and the Bridgestone Senior PLAYERS Championship have been rescheduled. The PGA TOUR announced its latest rescheduling and hopes to begin play in June with the Charles Schwab Challenge June 8-14. The Memorial Tournament, normally held at the beginning of June, has been moved to July 13-19, the slot that had been vacated with the cancellation of The OPEN Championship. NOGA Will Wait Until June to Start Tournament Action COVID-19 Forces Ohio Tournaments to be Rescheduled plan to assure we operate with the best and safest practices, when we begin competitive golf. You will see lots of hand sanitizer, thermal thermometers and maybe even a barrier between staff and players on the first tee and scoring area. We ask players to keep a safe physical distance from others. The Ohio Golf Association respects the dangers from Covid-19 and Public Health Safety remains our main priority, but we feel as though golf can bring some normalcy to people’s daily activity while being safe.” Be glad golf is back in Ohio, but practice safety first. Don’t be that guy that forces your club or course to close due to improper practices, during this pandemic. far different than normal, NOGA has decided to re-engineer its schedule and focus on a June 1 start. The total number of events in both series have been reduced slightly, but the schedule for both the Scratch and Flighted Series is still significant, featuring a roster of great golf courses from across the region. But with these changes, the revised version of the 2020 NOGA schedule is final. If some future order from the Governor prevents any of the event dates now scheduled from being played, those dates will be canceled instead of postponed.