Pat Sheridan wanted to travel to Long Beach Island from Connecticut for the first season of “Can You Beat Biggy?” but couldn’t find a way to escape work on a weekday to come down. Last season, COVID-19 was too much of an issue throughout the Northeast to make the trek.

In May, after I announced Season 3, Sheridan checked in with The Putting Penguin partner Mandy Ranslow, who lives in the Washington, D.C. area, to see if she could take a day to travel for a challenge match.