FINAL MAJOR: The 2020 Open Championship Has Been Cancelled

For the first time since World War II the Open Championship has been cancelled. Following the lead of Tennis who canceled Wimbledon in the last 24 hours, the 2020 Open will not happen this year. Why cancel the event instead of postponing it like the Masters or other PGA events? The reason may come down to money.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A post shared by Pete Pappas (@pgapappas) on Mar 16, 2020 at 4:12pm PDT

According to a report by ESPN’s Bob Harig and Golf Digest, the R & A can collect the insurance on the event if they cancel by a certain time. Maybe that’s the reason or maybe it has to do with safety but it sucks either way.

I’m not an expert on the pandemic in ANY way but I was hoping that we (the world) would be ahead of this by this summer. With the Open not scheduled for July 16th -19th I was hoping that this would be one major that goes on as planned. That’s not the case anymore.

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