Adam Scott Taking Wait-And-See Approach To PGA Tour Return

Evin Priest talks to this year’s Genesis Invitational winner and world no. 6 Adam Scott about the PGA Tour’s planned return at Colonial June 8-11.

The verdict? Scott does not think the Tour’s protocols are tight enough and he’s passing for the first seven weeks of play.

"What concerns me is dialogue that (the tour) is hopeful of returning one or two-hour test (results). You'd want that in place before competing.

"The other (concern) is it seems an asymptomatic person could operate within a tournament.
"If they're not showing symptoms and I somehow picked it up inside the course and I'm disqualified I'm now self-isolating (in that city) for two weeks. I'd be annoyed if that happened.

"I thought you'd start quite tight and loosen those protocols to normal if appropriate."

As for his comment on testing and protocols, the two loosest areas that may be a stumbling block for players are with the PGA Tour’s use of nasal swab tests that “at best” will return a result in 24-48 hours. And the “bubble” for travel and lodging is still just a recommendation according to the Tour’s 37-page document, meaning players can use other means of lodging and flight (or car).

Here is the testing element Scott appears to be referring to as not returning results fast enough:

The travel element seems to leave a few holes in the “bubble” but I’m also not sure how else it can be done, which again reminds that expanding fields for this return could turn out to be a huge headache.

On lodging, the bubble hotel is a strong recommendation, but not required:

And this also may be part of Scott’s trepidation given the number of people able to come, go and be exposed elsewhere: