It’s back-to-back for Muirfield Village Golf Club.
In a memo sent to PGA Tour players on Tuesday and obtained by Golfweek, the PGA Tour has reached an agreement in principle with Workday as the title sponsor for a tournament that will be held at Jack Nicklaus’s golf club in Dublin, Ohio.
The tournament will be played July 9-12 and replace the John Deere Classic, which was canceled last week.
The tournament will come one week before The Memorial, Nicklaus’ annual gathering of the best players in the world at Muirfield Village.
The tour said the replacement tournament will feature a field of 156 players and be played without spectators. It will be the fifth event of the PGA Tour’s restart of the season that was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Each of those events will be played without spectators. There is no official word yet if The Memorial will allow spectators. The Memorial will have a field of 120.
The PGA Tour will issue a full release with more details in the coming days.
Officials with the John Deere canceled their tournament for a variety of reasons, including financial considerations and Illinois limitations from the COVID-19 pandemic, which restrict gatherings to no more than 50 people through the summer. The John Deere will return in 2021 in Silvis, Illinois.
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