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Competitive golf’s governing bodies boldly remade the schedule of the men’s major championships and other professional events on Monday with the Masters tournament, a signature event of the American sporting calendar, moving to November because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Masters, a ritual of spring that was scheduled to be played this week at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga., will now be contested from Nov. 12 to 15.
The event, one of the most watched sporting events annually, has never been played in the fall, where it could conceivably be vying for attention with a weekend full of professional and college football games, if the N.