“Looks like there’s a chance this could go into Tuesday”.
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Play was abandoned on day three of the PGA Championship at Baltusrol Golf Club, New Jersey, after persistent rain and the continuing threat of lightning storms Saturday. Wherever it ended up, it was out of bounds, and Mickelson had to scramble for a triple bogey. I was the first group. we went through they changed it.
“I’m trying to concentrate on myself”.
The final five groups had no choice Saturday.
Meanwhile, a note to competitors shared on the official PGA website shortly after stated that the final round will begin at 8.40am Sunday in the same pairings as round three.
Then, the rain kept coming until the 13th fairway and other parts at the end of the lower course were so saturated that play had to be halted. And that’s exactly what the players did in the second round of the 98th PGA Championship.
Mickelson won the US PGA when it was last held at Baltusrol in 2005. “We feel it’s important for all the players, in an ideal world, to play from the first tee and play the holes in order”.
Kisner and Harrington showed a glimpse of what figured to be low scoring because of the soft conditions from two spells of rain earlier in the week.
The PGA will attempt to resume play on Sunday morning at 7 a.m. ET, but the forecast calls for scattered thunderstorms overnight and throughout the day on Sunday.
Padraig Harrington put himself back into contention at the PGA Championship after posting an impressive five-under 65 at Baltusrol. “You have to do special things if you want to contend in a major. and that might have been a great little break to get him some momentum”. “I need to have a long hard think about that”, he added. That portended problems for the leaders, including Jason Day as he started two strokes behind Walker and Streb. British Open champion Henrik Stenson is at minus-6.
It was only the fourth time in 115 rounds at major tournaments that McIlroy had failed to make a birdie.
Mickelson believes it’s a record doomed to fall.
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Walker, off to his best major start by two shots, had only led once before after 18 holes, that in 2011 at the US PGA Houston Open where he settled for a share of 30th. “It’s a par 70, the greens are pristine, rolling beautifully”. “If you’re not spot on, then it makes things hard”. They’re soft, so you can get the ball very close. It wasn’t raining yet, but play had been suspended for unsafe weather in the area. He found something in his swing a few weeks ago, birdied the last four holes a week ago Friday in the Canadian Open to make the cut and grabbed a sliver of history at Baltusrol.
