I thought they were doing weird charity tournaments and other “events” until restarting the season. The US Open isn’t this weekend right?

They had a player withdraw on Friday at the RBC in Hilton Head after a positive test, but this was the second week back as a fully-fledged tour with full purses, primetime TV, etc.

There is a fairly interesting case on the guy who tested positive (Nick Watney) at Hilton Head: he is a seasoned, mature pro who has been around the block and was supposedly tight about following the protocols the Tour laid out. He tested negative when he showed up at the beginning of the week, played his Thursday round, went to the course on Friday, then got tested because he said he was "symptomatic". He actually wasn't symptomatic at all in how we would normally think of it (fever, cough, metallic taste in the mouth, etc.) - he was "symptomatic" because he, like a lot of high level pro athletes and especially elite pro golfers, uses some sort of sophisticated fitness and sleep tracking band that feeds into software that tracks all sorts of information on sleep, body performance, and all that. He went and got tested because, apparently, the software was telling him that his breathing was irregular overnight from Thursday to Friday.

Concerning pro golf generally, the LPGA has had a more difficult time getting off the ground for several reasons: the LPGA is a more international tour, both in terms of player composition and in venue. The logistics of pulling that off are more substantial than what the PGA faces - most of the international players that play in the PGA live here most of the time anyway, all but a handful of PGA tournaments are in the continental US, and, frankly, the PGA just has a lot more pull because of the money involved and can dictate conditions to host venues on a different level.

They modified the schedule and bumped the US majors to the fall (British open cancelled).

They are playing the RBC at Hilton head right now