The Memorial Tournament announced Wednesday that it has sold out of its badge options for attending next month’s tournament.
Attendance is limited to 20% of its usual capacity because of safety protocols due to COVID-19. The Memorial will be the first PGA Tour event to allow spectators since the coronavirus pandemic brought a halt to almost all sporting events in March.
The Memorial was moved from this past weekend to the week of July 13-19 at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio. The course also will hold an event without fans the week before.
Among the steps announced by the Memorial to promote safety are the following:
- Before arrival, all badge-holders will be asked to take their temperature and review and answer six questions recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Anyone with a temperature 100 or higher or answering yes to any of the questions is asked to remain at home and seek medical advice.
- Upon arrival, all staff, volunteers, competition community and fans will be asked the six CDC questions and be asked to leave and seek medical advice if answering yes to any of them. Each person’s temperature will be taken. If two tests register 100 or higher, that person will be asked to leave.
- Non-surgical masks will be required upon entry for all attendees, other than those granted exemptions.
- Designated one-way corridors will be established on the course with a predetermined number of attendees permitted at each hole. All bleachers have been eliminated for the tournament.
- Sanitizers will be available and all concessions will be conducted with credit cards, not cash. All guests will park their own vehicles and walk to the course. There will not be general public shuttles for the tournament.
“Together with the PGA Tour, who we have worked jointly with throughout this process, we are looking forward to partnering with state, county and city leadership, along with the Memorial COVID-19 task force, to offer the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide as an example of how public gathering events can be developed and implemented with approved and accepted protocols in place,” tournament executive director Dan Sullivan said in a release.
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