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Fairway Rollin'

Travelers Championship to Continue Even Though Players and Caddies Have Tested Positive for COVID-19

Fairway Rollin'

The Ringer

Sports

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Joe House is joined by Nathan Hubbard to discuss the PGA Tour’s current state of affairs after multiple players, including Brooks Koepka, pulled out of the Travelers Championship because several players and caddies have been diagnosed with the coronavirus. We talk about players’ failure to follow proper protocol and how they perceive the virus, and then preview the weekend. Host: Joe House Guest: Nathan Hubbard Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello friend and welcome to this golf podcast unlike any other you have done it we're

0:12.3

back it is another week of fairway roll

0:17.0

in the golf podcast on the Ringer Podcast network I am your starter Joe House my

0:27.8

birdie buddies lots to get into this week, we continue to try this grand experiment with professional golf

0:39.8

of trying to conduct professional golf tournaments in the face of a pandemic.

0:46.0

And we are learning new things as we go along about what works, what doesn't work in terms of safety protocols.

0:54.8

We have breaking news in terms of announcements of positive tests.

0:59.8

We have available to us, fortunately, our PGA correspondent on the ground.

1:05.9

Nathan Hubbard, available to help us make sense out of everything we're seeing, including

1:11.2

the breaking news today of Brooks Kepka

1:14.8

withdrawing from the tournament in addition to a positive test by camp champ let's get

1:19.5

on that first tee with Nathan Hubbard, my pals. All right, my birdie buddies, we are on the tee with our

1:27.8

PGA Tor correspondent. The boots on the ground, Nathan Hubbard's happening buddy house it doesn't feel good right now it feels

1:38.0

Complicated the commish is about to give oppressor. I think he's going to reprimand some people. Maybe not by name, but they

1:46.8

know who they are. Well, some people deserve to be reprimanded. Of course, we are talking

1:51.6

about the current state of affairs with the PGA tour and its efforts to test its players and the caddies and all the relevant

2:10.0

Attendees support and all the relevant attendees support staff for the Travelers Championship up in Hartford, Connecticut that area. And you know we have some positive tests that have

2:15.2

developed over the course of this week some some COVID-19 tests have have

2:19.4

dropped in the in the positive direction.

2:22.8

Yeah, unfortunately, that's a negative.

2:25.4

You know, the thing about this house that, you know,

2:28.3

we're gonna hear a little bit more from the commission

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