With the Tour's best playing their best, suddenly, everything feels familiar

FORT WORTH, Texas – The low hum was impossible to ignore. About 100 yards short of Colonial’s 15th green and across Mockingbird Lane towered a grandstand complete with signage and filled to capacity.

As Corey Conners approached his tee shot, the sound coming from “Mockingbird Deck” was like that of any corporate hospitality tent along PGA Tour fairways before the world was changed by COVID-19. When Conners’ tee shot dropped within 5 feet of the cup, the well-appointed deck erupted with cheers.

For a moment nothing had changed.

Of course, we all know everything has changed, at least in the short term. Other than a similar grandstand set up outside of the property wall just off the 16th tee,…