“I was planning on taking two weeks off and then practising the week before Barclays”, said McIlroy.
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American Kevin Kisner was the best of the players to finish round three, carding an impressive five-under 65 to move to five under for the tournament, tied for sixth.
Former PGA champion Padraig Harrington shot a third-round 65 to get to 4 under for the tournament.
Thunderstorms suspended play at 2:14 p.m. EDT at the course in Springfield, N.J., before the leaders could tee off and stopping action on a day where the earlier starters had found such favorable conditions that Phil Mickelson predicted a player might break the 18-hole scoring record of 63 in a major.
The 2005 PGA Championship ended on Monday at the course because of rain.
The 27-year-old from Northern Ireland has won four major titles, including the 2012 and 2014 PGA Championships, but has not won a major in two years. I think you better attack it every time you get a chance on the PGA Tour, he said after his round on Saturday.
With heavy rains washing out much of the proceedings Saturday at the PGA Championship, the revised hope is for a marathon day of golf at Baltusrol in order to crown a champion on time. Now, they’re facing the prospect of a long Sunday in which they would have to play 36 holes if they don’t play at all today.
“It’s a major championship and we certainly try and look at starting from one tee whenever we can”, Haigh said in a press conference with reporters mediated by PR man Julius Mason.
Day was also just two shots off the lead at the halfway point in 2015 at Whistling Straits, where he famously surged ahead at the weekend to a record 20-under par and maiden major win. “If they get to 12, 13-under, that’s going to be a tall task. I think that there’s that 61 or 62 out there that I was probably trying to chase a little too hard”.
“I think the plus side was that I didn’t actually have to go out”, Day said on Saturday night.
“The forecast is similar to what it has been the previous two days, with a chance of rain in the afternoon, summer showers”.
“My tee-to-green game, there’s not much wrong with that, ” he said.
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“You keep it in the fairway, you can attack”, Kisner said. Around 3:30 p.m., tournament officials announced that a second weather cell was about 35 minutes away and that it had yet to be determiend when play might resume. He ranked third through two rounds in strokes gained off the tee, but just 152nd out of 156 players in strokes gained putting. “The course is receptive enough. If you had the putter rolling you could get a score going”. It’s really disheartening. I need to go back to the drawing board and see where we go from here.
