DUBLIN, Ohio – Welcome to the year’s first major championship.
Saturday was, after all, supposed to be the third round of The Open Championship before COVID-19 upended the PGA Tour schedule, pushed Royal St. George’s into next year’s calendar and scattered the year’s other Grand Slam stops to the wind.
When the Tour returned from its three-month quarantine, the traveling circus was met with a steady diet of target golf, comfort food for a group simply hungry to get back to work. Fifteen under par won the restart lid lifter at Colonial, 22 under was the magic number in Hilton Head and 23 under won the circuit’s Detroit stop.