Well, today was quite a day. We woke up this morning to rain, and the early players practiced and played in it.
Then, when the rain stopped, the wind kicked up in earnest: Twenty-five miles an hour with gusts to forty. W - O - W ! !
On #13 -- the hole that prompted the later wind suspension of play -- BG backed off his ball and re-marked four times as the ball wobbled about -- no, moved about -- on the green. Each player in the group three-putted, all missing second putts from less than four feet (and one from less than 12 inches). When the group behind us reached the green, Paul Goydos refused to play.
Fifteen minutes later, the horn -- the "hooter" as they call it here -- sounded, and play was suspended for an hour. Here's a shot of the players and caddies in Brian's group laying about in the grass awaiting the play of their third shots into the 14th, your basic 618-yard par 5. Don't look for Kip (BG's caddie): He was "starving" and off to get in a quick sandwich.
I noticed no appreciable difference in the wind velocity once play resumed. BG bogeyed #15 and #16 -- a three-putt including the one-stroke penalty he called on himself when the ball moved after he had soled the club -- then tripled #17 from the tough rough left off the tee. A birdie on the home hole brought him in at +11 for the day and for the tournament.
Not what we wanted or expected, of course, but it's what we got.
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