The plan for Sunday is to attempt to complete both rounds three and four, which means roughly half the field will play more than 18 holes Sunday.
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Play was suspended at 2:14 p.m. because of lightning in the area. Walker at least had time to rest in his travel bus – he’s a frequent neighbor of Day on the PGA Tour – and get right back out into the final round.
Jimmy Walker and Robert Streb slept on the lead for the second day in a row at the PGA Championship.
Lee Mirim couldn’t match her great golf of the first round, but a 71 was still good enough to hold the halfway lead on 11 under par 133 at the Women’s British Open at Woburn on Friday.
“I think that major record of 63 will be broken (before the tournament ends)”, Mickelson said.
The big movers among those who completed rounds Saturday were Kevin Kisner and three-time major champion Padraig Harrington, who won the 2008 PGA Championship.
As happened in 2005, a PGA Championship at Baltusrol will likely continue into Monday – we say “continue” because there is the possibility for rain to fall Monday afternoon with the tournament finishing on Tuesday.
“If you get off to a bad start, you’re thinking about it”, he said.
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.
And Italian Francesco Molinari had an incredible back nine, finishing with six successive birdies to post a two-under 68 for a one-under total.
Top-ranked defending champion Jason Day of Australia, only two shots back of U.S. co-leaders Jimmy Walker and Robert Streb, and British Open champion Henrik Stenson, who sat three adrift, were among those unable to tee off due to risky weather.
Major winners Justin Rose and Charl Schwartzel also made a move Saturday. World No. 1 Jason Day and 23-year-old Argentine Emiliano Grillo are two shots back at 7-under par.
Asked whether that was considered, Kerry Haigh, chief championships officers for the PGA of America, replied: “Not significantly”. “That’s the challenge of Baltusrol is the greens, and when they are soft that challenge and difficulty is negated”. Rickie Fowler had 45 feet for birdie on the first hole.
Day was trying to join Tiger Woods as the only golfers to successfully defend the PGA title since it went to stroke play in 1958.
The course played easy for many early Saturday, as birdies were out there to be had all over the course.
“There’s just a lot of birdie holes”.
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Now they face a marathon Sunday, with a reasonable chance they will not finish until Monday.
