[Farm93]

Golf.
Tennis.
Baseball.  (I don't see much transmission risk from the game itself - the logistics of getting half the teams in one locale and the other half in another; and supported by essential personnel for housing and meals; is far more risky (but not out of the realm of possibility).

Gold and Tennis are truly global sports. Until global travel is back in place in a semi-normal capacity, that seems pretty risky to me, because each tennis player and golfer brings along an entourage of coaches, caddies, PT, family members, etc. And I can't see the PGA, ATP, WTA, or ITF condoning hosting tournaments where players from certain countries are banned due to the underlying conditions in those countries? For example, right now France has banned all non-EU travelers. I think the U.S. still has bans in place for China, the EU, and the UK and Ireland, right? Won't those all have to be lifted before you can even think of hosting international tournaments?

Golf will be easier because a lot of the second tier USA players don't have big crews.   I think you could set it up so that if you attend you can bring a coach and a caddie.   That's it.   If you don't like that deal, then you can't attend.   Easy to secure country club set-up should make those restrictions enforceable. 

Tennis' top tier has a lot of support staff, but in the summer the players generally are cruising around the USA in prep for the US Open.   I doubt the US Open will happen because of its location, but it should be easy to get some of those other events up and running.   Again, it could be done so that a player can only get credentials, and therefore access, to one coach and a hitting partner.

Without fans it should be easy to get social distancing for the players and that smaller support group in both sports.

Remember both tours have to know their advantage is they are not team sports and they are not contact sports.   If they could get on the air their ratings would be enormous.   As every player in both sports is essentially a free agent, should anyone not want to participate they could opt out.  

FWIW - College sports for the Fall 2020 season is almost done already.   A lot of schools are already sending information to faculty and the media about preparing for remote/virtual learning for the start of the 2020-2021 academic year.   If it is too risky for students to share the same classroom how on earth could colleges justify making their student-athletes train, practice and travel together in contact sports?  

Starting and then stopping midseason has to be something the NCAA would like to avoid.

While here.   Imagine a world where there is no football in 2020.   Would it be possible for Stanford to allow Cal to host the 2021 Big Game?   That way Stanford could finally get even and odd year balance while also being really charitable to UCB and the UCB AD.

[Farm93]

Golf.
Tennis.
Baseball.  (I don't see much transmission risk from the game itself - the logistics of getting half the teams in one locale and the other half in another; and supported by essential personnel for housing and meals; is far more risky (but not out of the realm of possibility).

Gold and Tennis are truly global sports. Until global travel is back in place in a semi-normal capacity, that seems pretty risky to me, because each tennis player and golfer brings along an entourage of coaches, caddies, PT, family members, etc. And I can't see the PGA, ATP, WTA, or ITF condoning hosting tournaments where players from certain countries are banned due to the underlying conditions in those countries? For example, right now France has banned all non-EU travelers. I think the U.S. still has bans in place for China, the EU, and the UK and Ireland, right? Won't those all have to be lifted before you can even think of hosting international tournaments?

Golf will be easier because a lot of the second tier USA players don't have big crews.   I think you could set it up so that if you attend you can bring a coach and a caddie.   That's it.   If you don't like that deal, then you can't attend.   Easy to secure country club set-up should make those restrictions enforceable. 

Tennis' top tier has a lot of support staff, but in the summer the players generally are cruising around the USA in prep for the US Open.   I doubt the US Open will happen because of its location, but it should be easy to get some of those other events up and running.   Again, it could be done so that a player can only get credentials, and therefore access, to one coach and a hitting partner.

Without fans it should be easy to get social distancing for the players and that smaller support group in both sports.

Remember both tours have to know their advantage is they are not team sports and they are not contact sports.   If they could get on the air their ratings would be enormous.   As every player in both sports is essentially a free agent, should anyone not want to participate they could opt out.  

FWIW - College sports for the Fall 2020 season is almost done already.   A lot of schools are already sending information to faculty and the media about preparing for remote/virtual learning for the start of the 2020-2021 academic year.   If it is too risky for students to share the same classroom how on earth could colleges justify making their student-athletes train, practice and travel together in contact sports?  

Starting and then stopping midseason has to be something the NCAA would like to avoid.

While here.   Imagine a world where there is no football in 2020.   Would it be possible for Stanford to allow Cal to host the 2021 Big Game?   That way Stanford could finally get even and odd year balance while also being really charitable to UCB and the UCB AD.