Just in the last 10 days, several of the 17 states that initially had shuttered golf courses, began reopening the game to players with strict social distancing and CDC guidelines in place. That includes several states that will reopen golf courses for play this week that have been banned since March. Announcements in the last few days have come from Illinois, Washington, Pennsylvania, Nevada and New Jersey, where Gov. Phil Murphy reopened the state's parks and golf courses, beginning on May 2. "This will bring us in line, broadly speaking, with our neighboring states," Murphy said. "I did not want to see us in a situation where residents would be needlessly crossing state lines in either direction. To be clear, we cannot have everyone rush out to a park or golf course. Social distancing will be strongly enforced, and we expect golf course personnel to enforce this requirement." New Jersey's guidelines for golf were stern, including tee times 16 minutes apart which might be double what they were at some courses and twosomes only unless the group involved immediate family members or similar. "If we don’t like what we see, I hate to say this, I reserve the right to reverse the Executive Order that I’m signing today," Murphy said Wednesday.