🚨 Emergency Podcast: PGA Tour cancels The Players due to coronavirus concerns (3/13)

The First Cut Golf

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4.4 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Emergency podcast alert! The PGA Tour announced on Thursday that the Players Championship as well as the next three events are cancelled. The entire First Cut crew is here to breakdown all the news and offer their takes from an insane day in the world of golf. ————————— 'First Cut' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Follow our hosts on Twitter: @KylePorterCBS, @mark_immelman, @RickRunGood, @therealGFD For more golf coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/golf/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the first cut podcast, emergency podcast, because the tour just dropped some big news about
0:08.9	the players championship and to break it all down. I've brought in the entire team. We are going
0:13.9	four wide on this Kyle Porter, Mark Emelman, Greg Tusharm, all on the line to talk about
0:20.7	this statement that the PGA Tour just released.
0:23.7	Gentlemen, I'll get your instant reactions to this right out of the gate.
0:28.5	But here's the full statement because it's not very long.
0:31.8	It is with regret that we are announcing the cancellation of the Players' Championship.
0:36.6	We have also decided to cancel all PGA tour events across all of our tours in the coming
0:41.5	weeks through the Valero, Texas Open.
0:44.0	We have pledged from the start to be responsible, thoughtful, and transparent with our
0:47.0	decision process.
0:48.1	We did everything possible to create a safe environment for our players in order to create
0:51.9	the event throughout the weekend.
0:53.4	And we were endeavoring,
0:54.8	that's a good word, to give our fans a much needed respite from the current climate. But at this
1:00.2	point, and as a situation continues to rapidly change, the right thing to do for our players and our fans
1:05.3	is to pause. Mark Immelman, welcome to the show. You are on the scene. What is your initial reaction to this news?
1:12.4	Well, I just come back from hotel with my vanilla ice cream and brownie to sit in bed and catch up on some of the show.
1:19.2	And all of a sudden you see this release and my phone starts blowing up. I mean, I was out there with a few of my announced colleagues, Karen Stupples and Mark Wilson,
1:27.8	and we were talking about tomorrow.
1:29.6	And we talked to the rules of rules officially was there for dinner and just sort of recapping
1:33.9	the day.
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