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The official Ryder Cup USA twitter feed also
described the report in Britain's Telegraph as "inaccurate".
The Ryder Cup, a biennial team event between the United States
and Europe, is jointly owned and operated by the PGA of America
and the European Tour.
"September is a long way off," Harrington said on Irish radio
station Today FM.
"So there's no change to the situation at all at this stage. I
know there's been some rumors and they had to put out a
statement to say there's been no change, but there's definitely
no change."
The responses follow the Telegraph report that the Ryder Cup was
"expected" to be postponed, "with the golf authorities rapidly
reaching the decision that their most lucrative spectacle should
not be jammed into a schedule that is contracting by the week
due to the coronavirus crisis."
The Ryder Cup is scheduled for Whistling Straits on the shores
of Lake Michigan from Sept. 25-27.
The event has previously been delayed by 12 months from 2001
until 2002 following the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States,
and has since been played in even-numbered years.
Golf's calendar has been affected by the coronavirus outbreak
along with most other sports.
The year's first two major championships, April's Masters and
May's PGA Championship, have already been postponed. The Masters
says it hopes to play the tournament at "some later date", while
the PGA is aiming for a "summer" date.
The U.S.-based PGA Tour, which runs the game's biggest weekly
circuit, has canceled all tournaments through at least mid-May.
The LPGA Tour has scrapped three tournaments in Asia and
postponed three American events, including the ANA Inspiration
major that had been scheduled for California early next month.
(Reporting by Andrew Both in Cary, North Carolina; Editing by
Toby Davis)
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