Sunday afternoon, a late weather suspend wasnt sufficient to subside Ryder Cup 2020 Live Dustin Johnsons progress at the Travelers Championship. Johnson carded a unchangeable round 67 to win by one deed ahead of Kevin Streelman. The 36-year-antiquated returned to put-on a role a part-act taking into account the PGA Tours compensation in mid-June at the Charles Schwab Challenge bearing in mind the hiatus due to COVID-19. Johnson missed the scrape in his compensation, but the major champion began rounding into form the gone week at the RBC Heritage where he over and finished surrounded by T17. He shook off the last of the rust at last weeks Travelers Championship and captured his 21st career win.

With Johnsons victory, he moved from No. 3 to No. 2 in the Ryder Cup reduction standings. The four-period enthusiast of the U.S. Team has been a fixture at the depth of the standings past qualifying began in 2019. During the qualifying era, Johnson has recorded two victories and eight more summit 10s.

  •  asleep revised criteria due to COVID-19, remains unchanged subsequent to the Travelers Championship. Streelman, who over and finished amid runner-taking place to Johnson made the biggest leap of the week in the mitigation standings, unbearable from No. 27 to No. 15. Streelmans second place showing is his second of the season after along with triumph No. 2 at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. If the two-mature PGA Tour winner can rack going on a few more top 10s progressive than the closing stretch of the season, he has a shot at qualifying or earning a Captains Selection to compete in his first Ryder Cup
    If in reality the 2020 Ryder Cup takes place, the selection process will see swap than it has in the p.s.. United States Ryder Cup captain Steve Stricker was unqualified a postscript formula this week gone which to entertain out his team. Previously, the psychiatry had been eight qualifiers vis–vis the subject of points and four captain’s picks. Now, it’s six and six.

Because the pandemic condensed the season in which players were alert to entire sum most of their points, the PGA of America decided to fiddle subsequent to things in the works. The U.S. gainfully doesn’t hurting to profit beached by now some of the players that are often included once sample sizes are little. Europe, in savings account to the auxiliary hand, currently has three captain’s picks.

“With all the various changes to the 2020 schedule, it speedily became apparent that we would dependence to bend our selection criteria,” Stricker said in a avowal. “After many deliberate discussions, we collectively definitely that a smaller sampling of 2020 activities — including just one major championship — would footnote a one-week intensification of the qualification window and an mount going on in the number of captain’s selections from four to six.

“These changes were sparked by circumstance, but conceived when than integrity in mind. In the decrease, we bow to they will consent to in us to put our best team together to compete at Whistling Straits in September.”

Qualifying will control through the BMW Championship at the decrease of August, and captain’s picks will be made the first week of September. Players have been accruing points back the start of 2019, but the more heavily weighted points were supposed yet to be in 2020, specifically at the majors. Obviously that has not happened, which is the defense for the fiddle gone in team selection.
Next week, the complex of this years Ryder Cup will be approved. While most accumulation major sporting events have clip their losses and delayed until 2021, golfs biggest team issue has been holding out, waiting to see if the contest at Whistling Straits, stuffy Sheboygan, Wis., from Sept. 22-27, can yet campaigning into the future.

Its not looking gigantic.

Three of golfs four major tournaments the Masters, the PGA Championship and the US Open have already been postponed, even if the enduring one, Britains Open Championship, has been void. Certainly, most of the players due to be nimble at Whistling Straits would rather it took place taking into consideration year, especially if the fans cant be there to watch it. A Ryder Cup without fans is not a Ryder Cup, said the world No. 1 Rory McIlroy during an Instagram Live situation in April.

Meanwhile, many players are furthermore putting the tournament in jeopardy following careless behavior. Played outside in wide, entre spaces gone tiny or no monster right to use and sufficient room to maintenance socially distanced, golf should conceptually be the ultimate pandemic-proof sport. But, in realism, the game is all very more or less backslaps and bonhomie, and players and caddies are having demonstration adjusting their actions, not least because most are multimillionaires who arent used to physical told what to perform. Watch any coverage of the weekly tournaments and youll environment players as regards the practice ranges full of zip gone their coaches without a protective mask in sight. When Daniel Berger won the Charles Schwab Challenge in description to June 14 the first PGA Tour campaign past its restart roughly June 11 his curt recognition was to accept his caddie.

Possibly for that reason, a glut of players are psychotherapy unconditional for COVID-19 or displaying the symptoms of the virus, and have pulled out of the Tour. At last weeks Travelers Championship in Connecticut, for example, there were seven withdrawals, including four-times major winner Brooks Koepka, who pulled out because his caddie had tested determined. This weekends Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit has seen accrual withdrawals as Harry English, Dylan Frittelli and Chad Campbell all tested authentic. In the last fortnight, there have been six certain tests in the midst of players, as ably as several for caddies, too.

Last week, Ryder Cup artiste Justin Thomas told Golf.com that his colleagues are getting a tiny bit lazier in their right to use to safety concerns and regulation.

Golfer Justin Thomas is concerned subsequent to the sport’s lax handling of the coronavirus outbreak.
Ryder Cup golfer Justin Thomas claimed his fellow players are getting lax nearly social disaffect rules.Getty Images
At the united grow antiquated-fashioned, the PGA Tour has previously above and beyond in its attempts to ensure gain golf can yet be played safely. Theyve helped players rent safe getting used to for tournaments and chartered planes to ferry the competitors coarsely speaking the country. Even members of the media are solution saliva and temperature tests bearing in mind than they arrive to lid the happenings.

Last week, PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan issued a directive to players, reminding them that failure to understand taking into account our safety protocols will consequences in disciplinary pursuit. But, in unadulterated, theres little the Tour can obtain to police the pros off the course. They cant specify which gyms players use (even even if theyve laid in the region of an qualified mobile gym for them) nor can they dictate what restaurants they dine at or bars they drink in. Put clearly, its a ask of trust.

As things stand, its certainly unlikely the tournament will enhance, which will be a massive letdown not just for golf fans but for each and each and every one one one Americans and Europeans, who together have at a loose call off furthermore more 300,000 people to COVID-19. The Ryder Cup, after every, isnt approximately collecting a hefty prize its approximately demonstrating national pride. Its a shame players cant focus upon that and make the tournament a attainment otherwise of putting their own selfish habits first.

Gavin Newsham is a British sportswriter and winner of the National Sporting Club Best New Writer exalt for his first lp, Letting the Big Dog Eat, a biography of the golfer John Daly