2021/07/14 08:49 NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. (AP) In the final week of the PGA Tour testing players as a requirement to play, Ted Purdy and Chris Couch had to withdraw from the Barbasol Championship on Tuesday when they tested positive for the coronavirus. That makes four players who have tested positive in the last 12 days. The Barbasol Championship was the first tournament since the Valspar Championship in late April that had more than player receive a positive COVID-19 test. The Barbasol Championship is held opposite the British Open. Purdy, whose lone PGA Tour victory was in 2005 at the Byron Nelson Championship, started out as the sixth alternate when the field was set last Friday. Couch s only PGA Tour title was in New Orleans a year later. He was listed as the third alternate.
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