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Today, Friday, is the second day of the Players Championship, 2021 edition. I hope it will be a day to remember, the sort of day “when all nature cries fore” as PG Wodehouse, the British author put it. Play will start soon after dawn and continue until dusk when it will be clear – or should be – how many competitors have got through to the last two rounds of the event and who they are.
It was not like this on the second day of the championship last year, 2020. I know because I was there. Indeed, there was no second day. One eight-letter word explains why, one that may have become one of the most used words in the past year – pandemic.
The tournament was cancelled around 9 p.m. on the evening of Thursday, 12th March, the first day. That night, Ron Green Jr., my colleague, and I were attacking steaks and baked potatoes in an Outback Steakhouse off Atlantic Boulevard when we received word of this and were summoned to a press conference in the media centre at Sawgrass the next morning to hear the reasoning behind this decision. “In the golf business it was a ‘remember where you were’ moment,” Jack Peter, former president of the World Golf Hall of Fame said. Only now does the significance of that day and date hit home. It was Friday the 13th.
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