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One more week to Colonial!

Limp Lizard

Full Member
First PGA full tournament since March 8!

Hope the weather holds for another week. If it does it should be a tough fast track (unless the PGA wimps out and cuts the rough at 1").

Hoping for dry, warm, windy weather.
 

HFrog1999

Member
Could’ve had at least 50% capacity if they had been able to wait on the decision or if the governor had published a timeline before hand.
 
Could’ve had at least 50% capacity if they had been able to wait on the decision or if the governor had published a timeline before hand.
Maybe. But still would have been a logistical nightmare. More than 50% of tickets/badges go to corporates/members. Would have to make cuts. There would be losers.

This will be fun to watch on television and fun for the players.

We'll all be back on the course next year.
 

FinanceFrog

Full Member
Based on what I have seen on the news the last few days, Colonial needs to allow spectators. Or is COVID a thing again?

it’s a much bigger undertaking to host 100k+ people for a 4 day event than you are realizing. the decision to host fans or not had to be made at least a month ago from a logistics standpoint.

like all things CV related - the pga made the best choice they could at the time.
 

HToady

Full Member
It’s too late logistically for that to happen
yep. Grandstands are built a month in advance. Plus no roping off of other areas.

Because of this decision early on there have been few carts allowed on the course, Minimal construction crews for only small TV towers. Because of this the course looks spectacular. Best I've seen it.

Enjoy!
 

HFrog1999

Member
yep. Grandstands are built a month in advance. Plus no roping off of other areas.

Because of this decision early on there have been few carts allowed on the course, Minimal construction crews for only small TV towers. Because of this the course looks spectacular. Best I've seen it.

Enjoy!

The grass isn’t the best part of the Colonial

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It’s too late logistically for that to happen

Yeah, the orders for grandstands, much less the erecting of them, was cancelled a while back. Having SRO would be a disaster.

It isnweird driving by and seeing PGA and tv trucks and sponsor signage on the course but no grandstands.

It sucks but our company will be saving about 35k this year by not getting a tent. Maybe they can now afford that nominal raise I've been asking for.
 

Paul in uhh

Active Member
Yeah, the orders for grandstands, much less the erecting of them, was cancelled a while back. Having SRO would be a disaster.

It isnweird driving by and seeing PGA and tv trucks and sponsor signage on the course but no grandstands.

It sucks but our company will be saving about 35k this year by not getting a tent. Maybe they can now afford that nominal raise I've been asking for.
Why would SRO be a disaster? Even if they had limited attendance I’d think that’s better than zero? tell people that they have no amenities other than water and porta-potty given the circumstances, but up to 1,000 can attend? Seems easy to do.
 
Saw Colonial's corporate sales guy at a bar today yucking it up with a group of folks. He seemed pretty jovial so they can't be hurting too much. Also saw a few peoplenat other tables with Charles Schwab hats and bags. Maybe some event today for the volunteers.
 

flyfishingfrog

Active Member
Could’ve had at least 50% capacity if they had been able to wait on the decision or if the governor had published a timeline before hand.
That decision would have to have been made 8+ weeks ago

it takes the club months to get all those stands up, ropes setup, volunteers trained and uniformed, security setup, etc

that is why they decided the first events are crowd free regardless of current rules
 

flyfishingfrog

Active Member
Why would SRO be a disaster? Even if they had limited attendance I’d think that’s better than zero? tell people that they have no amenities other than water and porta-potty given the circumstances, but up to 1,000 can attend? Seems easy to do.
Would you be ok with that if the 1000 were all members?

because the membership isn’t allowed to attend either and we have well more than 1000 members counting social members
 
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