HONG KONG, June 7 — The Asian Tour announced on Sunday plans to restart its 2020 golf season with three tournaments in September as coronavirus travel restrictions begin to ease across the world’s most populous continent. The tour, which has been suspended since American Trevor Simsby won the...
US golfer Trevor Simsby lifts the Bandar Malaysia Open 2020 trophy . — Picture by Ahmad Zamzahuri
The US$1.181 million tournament will be the first of three to be played under strict COVID-19 protocols which could mean players have to travel alone and use local caddies. Events in Taiwan and Japan will follow in consecutive weeks. The Asian Tour is the last of golf’s three leading men’s circuits to announce a return to action, faced with a complex international schedule that necessitates players from more than 25 countries cross borders for each tournament.
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