Paris (AFP) – LPGA Tour Commissioner Mike Whan stated he felt “fairly certain” the Ladies’s British Open may go forward in August regardless of France’s Evian Championship turning into the primary girls’s golf main to be misplaced to the COVID-19 pandemic.The British Open at Troon in Scotland is because of be performed from August 20-23, with gamers arriving in Britain for the Scottish Open, co-sanctioned with the Women European Tour, in North Berwick every week earlier.The Evian Championship, one in all 5 girls’s majors, had already been rescheduled from July 23-26 to August 6-9.However on Tuesday it was shelved till 2021 due to persevering with uncertainty over journey restrictions for the 120-strong worldwide area and several other hundred help workers.”Sadly, we did not have a later date. We had already moved Evian again as soon as and the remainder of our calendar is fairly properly spoken for,” stated Whan, who not too long ago introduced plans for the LPGA Tour to renew on the Marathon Traditional in Ohio on July 23.”I give (Evian) lots of credit score. They battled till the top. We had lots of completely different codecs being mentioned: small footprints, no followers, minimal impression,” Whan stated on a video posted on the LPGA Tour web site.”However if you discuss gamers, households and caddies coming from 50 or 60 completely different international locations, we simply weren’t certain we’d have the ability to get them in to placed on a serious that wasn’t hampered by the border-crossing points.””We do, nevertheless, really feel fairly good about with the ability to go to the UK,” he added.”So, whereas we won’t go to France and play Evian, it doesn’t suggest that our whole European swing is cancelled.”Organisers had earlier cited the massive variety of gamers having to journey to France as the largest think about cancelling this 12 months’s Evian Championship.”The continuing uncertainty in regards to the opening of borders, particularly with Asia and the USA, poses a serious threat,” a press release stated.Males’s skilled golf will make its return on Thursday, with out spectators however with a star-studded area led by world primary Rory McIlroy, on the PGA Tour’s Charles Schwab Problem at Colonial in Fort Price, Texas.The European Tour has introduced a six-event “UK Swing” to start with the British Masters on July 22, and the Asian Tour is planning to restart in September.
