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Three players on the PGA Tour will be allowed to tee off in the first round of the Workday Charity Open on Wednesday despite testing positive for coronavirus. Officials have decided to send the trio out in the same group - inevitably labelled 'The Covid-19 Threeball' - but whether this assuages the other players in the field - including Spain’s Jon Rahm, who would replace Rory McIlroy as world No 1 with victory in Ohio - remains to be seen. Nick Watney, Denny McCarthy and Dylan Frittelli have all tested positive since the Tour’s restart last month and have immediately withdrawn from the respective tournaments as a result. They have been tested at regular times since, but continued to test positive. Yet still they are being permitted to play at the £5m event at Muirfield Village because they meet the Centers for Disease Control guidelines for returning to work. “They are not presumed to be contagious,” Dr Tom Hospel, the Tour’s medical advisor, said. It is a complex, if not bizarre scenario that is bound to raise so many eyebrows if any of these players get into contention - because they will presumably have to play on their own on the weekend.
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