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Uncle Sam grants PGA Tour a coronavirus pass

With newly relaxed quarantine rules, foreign players win red-carpet treatment from White House and PGA Tour, greatly reducing a big deterrent to compete amid uncertainty of COVID-19 pandemic

By Mike Purkey
Keeping Score

Rounds played jump in May as U.S. gets back on its feet

Despite a 6.2-percent rise compared with the same month in 2019, the number of rounds played year to date is off 8 percent from the same period in 2019, Golf Datatech reports
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Chad Campbell becomes PGA Tour’s 6th coronavirus patient

Positive test prompts Campbell, who was the first alternate this week, to withdraw from Rocket Mortgage Classic
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PGA cancels its Professional Championship

With national championship for club professionals scrapped, PGA Championship will take top 20 from PGA’s player-of-the-year list
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USGA changes channels for U.S. Open

NBC returns to televise the U.S. Open and the USGA’s other national championships after Fox pulls out of its contract
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5th PGA Tour player tests positive for coronavirus

Harris English withdraws from this week’s Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit, the Tour announces
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Younger Koepka will get another shot at Travelers

Tournament grants Brooks Koepka’s kid brother, Chase, a reprieve for 2021 after both Koepkas withdrew from the Travelers event as a precaution when the elder Koepka’s caddie was among a number of positive coronavirus tests
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PGA Tour tightens rules for life in ‘bubble’

Players, caddies and other staff will need a negative coronavirus test to enter the tournament site each week, the Tour says
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Tour offers $100,000 to players with coronavirus, report says

That’s the going rate for a PGA Tour player to be paid under the Tour’s stipend program, Golfweek reports, as long as he follows the health and safety guidelines, including a 10-14-day quarantine

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