PGA Tour bracing for elevated intercontinental travel limitations just after recent govt purchase

LA QUINTA, Calif. – As the country welcomed a new administration into the White Household this week, the PGA Tour is bracing for improved worldwide vacation constraints for players and caddies.

In a memo despatched to gamers, the Tour outlines an executive get signed on Friday by President Joe Biden “that may well influence tourists coming from intercontinental destinations.” The get requests some companies generate suggestions to implement the Center for Sickness Control’s tips on self-quarantine/isolation on entry into the United States.

The present-day CDC guidelines suggest those people traveling to the U.S. to “stay home” for seven times if they are presented a COVID-19 exam in just 3 to five times of arrival.

“The govt order does not point out with specificity when this resolve by the govt agencies will be made, but states it must be finished instantly,” the memo reads.

The memo also informs gamers that commencing upcoming week these touring to the U.S. will be demanded to deliver a negative coronavirus check inside of 72 hrs of boarding their flight.

Past July the White Property declared intercontinental players and caddies would be allowed to vacation and contend in the U.S. with out delay because there were being viewed as “essential personnel.” These gamers and caddies have been exempt from the 14-working day quarantine time period that was in area simply because they have been subject matter to the circuit’s “COVID-19 testing and screening by means of the Tour’s demanding health and basic safety protocols.”

That waiver had develop into an crucial section of vacation for a lot of worldwide players like Rory McIlroy who programs to depart Abu Dhabi, where by he is top the European Tour celebration, on Sunday and travel to southern California to participate in next week’s Farmers Insurance policy Open up.