|
|
|
 |
|
|
« For Angela Buzminski A Promise Is A Promise | Home | Darren Wallace Setting The Pace For The UW »
Canadian Tour Postpones Mexican Events
Despite concerns over the outbreak of swine flu in Mexico the Canadian Tour has decided to go ahead and play this week's scheduled San Luis Potosi Open but with the golf course closed to the general public and all local caddies. However, the final two Mexican events on the Tour schedule over the next two weeks have now been postponed.
Both the Yucatan Country Club Classic and the Iberostar Riviera Maya Open are being rescheduled and will take place in consecutive weeks on the 2009 schedule.
"With the heightened alerts in Mexico, we have taken the precaution of protecting the health and safety of our members," said Commissioner Richard Janes on Tuesday. "The Iberostar Resort and the Merida airport will be shut down as a safeguard and the Canadian Tour is making the necessary arrangements with its travel partners to bring our players home."
"As it stands today, our players are in San Luis Potosi and the event will place as scheduled with strict safety precautions in place. However, we are constantly monitoring the situation and will take the necessary steps should circumstances change."
Both the hotel and the San Luis Potosi Resort are Five Star facilities located just outside the city of San Luis Potosi and are highly secure facilities with medical practitioners available at all times.
"We are taking every precaution with our players at San Luis Potos," said the Commissioner, who was in Mexico all last week.
Those precautions include the use of bottled water only, hand sanitizers, and the precaution that Tour players take their meals at the Club and resort and not travel into the town of San Luis Potosi.
"While we have seen 10 to 15 of our players withdraw, it should be noted that several players are still arriving from Latin America, the United States and Canada, and are eager to play," concluded Janes.
The American government has issued a travel advisory suggesting that people avoid all non-essential travel to Mexico and has suggested steps and precautions to take for those who need to travel to Mexico.
"This is out of an abundance of caution," said Richard Besser, acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who early Tuesday said that just one person in the United States has been hospitalized because of the outbreak and everyone infected with the virus has recovered.
Both LPGA and the Tour de Las Americas were in Mexico this past week without incident.
« For Angela Buzminski A Promise Is A Promise | Home | Darren Wallace Setting The Pace For The UW »
