Justin Thomas Calls Hilton Head ‘An Absolute Zoo’ for RBC Heritage amid COVID-19
Streeter Lecka/Getty Photos
Celeb golfer Justin Thomas commented Saturday on the scarcity of precaution he has viewed in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, in most unusual days amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Per JuliaKate E. Culpepper of Golfweek, Thomas talked about the following about what he has viewed whereas on the city for the RBC Heritage:
“I mean, no offense to Hilton Head, but they’re seeming to no longer get rid of it very critically. It be an absolute zoo round here. There would possibly be americans in each single quandary. The seashores are absolutely packed. Every restaurant, from what I’ve viewed as soon as I have been utilizing by, is largely crowded. So I’d recount or no longer it’s peaceable accident that there’s got to be quite a bit of stuff happening round here.”
The PGA Tour halted its season in March attributable to COVID-19, on the opposite hand it returned to motion for the first time final week with the Charles Schwab Station.
All golfers, caddies and wanted personnel handed each COVID-19 test given to them final week, and this week started similarly, but golfer Prick Watney examined definite for the coronavirus forward of Friday’s 2nd round of the RBC Heritage after feeling signs.
Thomas talked about Watney has been “very cautious and has accomplished all the things he can” to get rid of himself and others protected at some level of the pandemic.
Despite the indisputable truth that Thomas hasn’t essentially preferred what he’s viewed from one of the residents of Hilton Head Island, he famed that he feels protected whereas playing PGA Tour events:
“I in fact feel very protected. I’d no longer be playing if I did now not. … What I’ve accomplished is I set in a home with a chef each week with about a guys and set it in that miniature circle. So I in fact feel very, very protected in that regard. Outside that you simply would have the ability to well perchance no longer set watch over what diverse americans enjoy accomplished, and I deem that is what took quandary to Prick. He was very unlucky.”
The PGA Tour was the third foremost sports actions group in America to advance to motion amid the pandemic, following NASCAR and the UFC.
Besides to checking out everybody on the course, the PGA Tour has taken extra precautions in the originate of fans being barred from events and golfers and caddies being requested to follow determined principles, a lot like golfers taking their very enjoy golf equipment out of baggage and caddies wiping down flag sticks and bunker rakes.
Thomas entered the fourth and final round of the RBC Heritage on Sunday at 9 below par, which place aside him six strokes on the again of leaders Webb Simpson, Ryan Palmer, Tyrrell Hatton and Abraham Ancer.