The Masters has been rescheduled for Nov. 9-15, which will include all professionals and amateurs who qualified for the original April date and all existing ticket holders.
The big picture: If not for the coronavirus pandemic, the tournament at Augusta National Golf Club would have teed off this week. Chairman Fred Ridley said Monday the new dates are "incumbent upon favorable counsel and direction from health officials."
In January 1918, the horrors of World War I were in their final year, and Major League Baseball was preparing for its 16th season. But beneath the surface, another deadly battle was brewing. They called it the "Spanish flu."
By the numbers: Over the next 15 months, the global pandemic infected an estimated 500 million people — about a quarter of the world's population at the time — and killed as many as 100 million.
President Trump predicted yesterday that the Republican National Convention will open as scheduled in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Aug. 24 — "We have no contingency plan" — setting a new bar for a phased return to business in America.
The big picture: With the virus peak for New York projected to be Thursday, and for the nation April 15, Trump continued to leaven dire warnings with a sunny streak.
