The PGA Tour Bermuda Championship will allow a limited number of fans per day for the Oct. 29-Nov. 1 event, marking the "first time that general admission spectators have been welcomed on-site at a PGA Tour tournament since the onset" of coronavirus, according to Colin Thompson of the Bermuda ROYAL GAZETTE. The number of people allowed each day will be "determined under the island's public-gatherings protocol," but local residents "as well as visitors will be able to attend." Protocols will include "temperature checks, wearing of face masks upon entry and around the golf course, social distancing with six feet of separation, and the use of hand sanitiser." Bermuda has been "widely recognised for its achievements in controlling the pandemic," with "just a handful of current cases" (Bermuda ROYAL GAZETTE, 9/29). GOLF DIGEST's Daniel Rapaport noted this will "not be the first event since the COVID-19 hiatus to hold spectators," as last week's PGA Tour Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship in the Dominican Republic "allowed 500 invited guests per day." However, it will be the "first event to allow the general public, and the first to allow them to walk the golf course." Fans last week were "confined to two viewing areas near the 16th and 17th hole" (GOLFDIGEST.com, 9/29).
