PGA Championship 2016: Leaderboard, Saturday highlights, delay breakdown Round 3 was suspended due to weather at the 98th PGA Championship, and it could very much change things when action restarts on Sunday
There was no meaningful golf played on Saturday at Baltusrol as most of the third round got washed out in the afternoon. Only 18 groups were about to finish up on Saturday before play was suspended. None of the leaders got a chance to tee off. The best rounds of the day belonged to Padraig Harrington and Kevin Kisner who both shot 65. So Sunday will be a day full of golf as the tournament will try and get close to 36 holes in and those at the top of the leaderboard. It's going to be a fascinating day of golf. A course that was already playing pretty easy will be even easier with all the rain. The greens will be receptive. The scores will be low.
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"The golf course is susceptible to very low scoring," said Phil Mickelson, who was one of the 37 players to finish his round. "There is a low 60s round. I think somebody is going to break that 63 record in these next two days. The greens are pristine. You can make a lot of putts. They are soft, so you can get the ball very close. I think that there's that 61 or 62 out there that I was probably trying to chase a little too hard." And that was before the rains came.
"I think [the major record of 63] will be broken in the next two days," Mickelson reiterated. "I would be surprised if it wasn't. I just think that the course is playing to where you can fly 6, 7, 8 irons at the hole, it's going to stop right there. The challenge of Baltusrol is the greens, and when they are soft that challenge and difficulty is negated. All that extra roll and runoff is not coming into the play." So now we hurry up and wait until Sunday morning for an old-fashioned major. All the holes you can possibly play in a single day from sunup to sundown. The leaderboard will look mostly the same when everyone tees off early on Sunday morning. The only new name on the current leaderboard is Kisner who shot up after shooting that 64.
T1. Robert Streb (-9) T1. Jimmy Walker (-9) T3. Jason Day (-7) T3. Emiliano Grillo (-7) 5. Henrik Stenson (-6) T6. Kevin Kisner (-5) T6. Martin Kaymer (-5) T6. Patrick Reed (-5) T6. Brooks Koepka (-5)
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