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PGA Tour announces coronavirus testing details

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PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan is broadcast on a score board on the 18th green during the first round of The Players Championship on March 12, 2020 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. The event was canceled after one round.

The PGA Tour announced a deal with Sanford Health to conduct covid-19 testing of players, caddies and essential personnel five days before the season resumes. That applies to every stop on the PGA Tour, PGA Tour Champions and the developmental Korn Ferry Tour.

Sanford Health is based in South Dakota and is title sponsor of a PGA Tour Champions event.

The company has three mobile testing units it will deploy across the country. Each one has a driver and three lab technicians. A unit will be at tournaments from Saturday through Thursday before leaving for the next closest event.

The tour said results from the PCR tests are expected back in a manner of hours. Senior vice president of tour administration Andy Levinson said it also allows ample testing without taking away resources from the community where the tournaments are played.

The tour expects about 400 people to require testing at tournaments upon the restart. No spectators are allowed for the first five events on the PGA Tour.

The first event is the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial in Fort Worth, Texas, on the PGA Tour. The smaller Korn Ferry Tour has an event at PGA Tour headquarters in Florida.

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