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(Reuters) -The PGA
Tour Series-China will not conduct a 2021 season because of the
COVID-19 pandemic and uncertainty around the situation in the
country, the PGA Tour said on Friday while announcing plans to
restart developmental circuits in Canada and Latin America.
During the year, officials from the PGA Tour Series-China will
discuss ways of returning to competitive golf and look forward
to a full schedule of events in 2022.
"We remain committed to the region and want to do everything we
can to give competitive opportunities for players in Asia and
from the Pacific Rim," Greg Carlson, PGA TOUR Series-China
Executive Director said in a news release.
"We are trying to pursue other opportunities for our players to
play in 2021. We will also take this pause and evaluate what we
might be able to do in 2022."
In 2020, the series held the first of three planned qualifying
tournaments for players from mainland China in January before
the season was stalled due to the pandemic and later cancelled.
The PGA Tour Canada, which cancelled its 2020 campaign due to
border restrictions related to COVID-19, plans to hold all but
one of seven qualifying tournaments in the United States ahead
of an official season from late-May to mid-September.
The remainder of the PGA Tour Latinoamerica schedule will be
released in the next few weeks, with an expected restart to the
season in March and concluding in early to mid-June.
The circuit's wraparound 2020-21 schedule resumed last month
following an eight-month hiatus.
(Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto; Editing by Toby Chopra
and Toby Davis)
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