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Just when the PGA Tour believed that the birdie-prolific pros had somehow managed to wrest that damned spotlight away from Friday’s positive Covid-19 test, so Sergio Garcia produced an outrageous quote for the ages, if not for this particular era. “I felt terrible for Nick Watney because he's one of the nicest guys on Tour,” Garcia said. “Unfortunately, it had to happen to him. So there's a lot of other people that probably deserved it a lot more than him, and he's the one that got it.” Perhaps Garcia might next compile and release a table of those in the locker room who warrant the life-threatening virus. At least the Spaniard knows he is in the clear for now. As his comments suggest, Garcia is a close friend of Watney, the 39-year-old who became the first golfer to test positive since the tour resumed last week, and offered him a lift on his private jet to Hilton Head Island for this week’s £6m event. After being tested negative on arrival at Harbour Town Golf Course, Watney was tested as positive after displaying symptoms on Friday morning and now has to spend up to two weeks in isolation at Hilton Head before he can return home to his wife and two children in Austin, Texas. Garcia was one of 11 players and caddies who had come into contact with Watney and who were tested on Saturday and, blessedly, all came back negative. It left the way open for a remarkable day of golf that saw Tyrrell Hatton fire a 63 that gives him a shot at history.
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