PGA Tour COVID-19 Testing Remains Perfect, Two More Korn Ferry Caddies Test Positive, WD's Need Explanation

Almost perfect news across the PGA Tour’s testing of players, caddies and family, reports Bob Harig at ESPN.com.

The total of 954 tests over two weeks includes the 98 players, caddies and family members who boarded chartered flights from Dallas on Monday to travel to Hilton Head for the second event on the PGA Tour's revised schedule after a 13-week shutdown because of the coronavirus pandemic. Those who traveled to South Carolina on their own were required to take a test on-site.

Ian Poulter shared his testing experience and the, uh, sensations he felt after the swab went up his nose.

Have you ever wondered what Corona Virus testing in sport looks like...bet you don’t want to know what it feels like! pic.twitter.com/GUCxdn7oiI

— Ian Poulter (@IanJamesPoulter) June 17, 2020

In less positive news, Harig reported this in addition to the previous week’s Korn Ferry Tour’s four positive tests…

On the Korn Ferry Tour, there have been 408 total coronavirus tests conducted, with two positive results, both from non-players.

Obviously issue #1 is the health of those who did test positive. Here’s hoping they get the support necessary to get well and get back looping with no reprecussions for having contracted the virus.

Issue #2, very much a distant second but nonetheless one totally foreseeable: the PGA Tour does not like to disclose much, including who tests positive for anything. In the case of the virus, while perfectly understandable, the current policy leaves players open to unfair speculation.

But this week, Scottie Scheffler, Kevin Na and Cameron Tringale all WD’d from the RBC Heritage. There were some reports about Na’s back if you poked around Twitter, but no clear explanation was given for Scheffler and Tringale upon the news breaking.

Again, it’s a difficult situation. But without a clearer disclosure for WD’s during the COVID-19 era it causes fans to immediately worry about the player’s health.