Tuesday: COVID-19 Positives Prompt WD's From Travelers Championship

Week three of the 2020 “Return to Golf” has seen two more players withdraw or intend to from the Travelers Championship. And it’s only Tuesday.

Cameron Champ tested positive upon arriving at the event after not playing last week’s RBC Heritage, and according to GolfDigest.com’s Joel Beall, must self-isolate for ten days.

Later in the evening, Graeme McDowell told Golfweek he is withdrawing Wednesday morning after his caddie, Ken Comboy, tested positive before traveling to the tournament. McDowell played the first two events, missing the cut in each.

From Eamon Lynch’s Golfweek story where McDowell and Comboy share the sequence of events.

Comboy suspects he may have been exposed to the virus after the Charles Schwab Challenge in Texas two weeks ago. McDowell’s private plane was too small for his party, so his longtime bagman took a commercial flight to Orlando that he described as “packed” with passengers. On Monday, he and McDowell attended the funeral of a friend, then drove to Hilton Head, S.C. for the RBC Classic.

On Thursday, Comboy said he had a mild sore throat and went to bed early. After missing the cut Friday morning, the pair drove home to Orlando that afternoon with McDowell’s trainer, a six-hour journey.

McDowell certainly seems wise to WD now given the amount of time the two have been close and presumably without masks.