SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) – The PGA Championship gets two “moving days” Saturday at Whistling Straits.
The first one starts at 7 a.m. when the second round, which was halted by a wicked storm, gets underway. Of the 49 players who didn’t finish the second round, 15 of them were separated by six shots. The leaderboard had as much clarity as the clouds that rolled in over Lake Michigan late Friday afternoon.
A pair of Australians, Jason Day and Matt Jones, were tied at 9-under par. Day had a 15-foot birdie putt on the 15th hole when play was stopped. Jones was on the other side of the course, in a fairway bunker to the right of the fourth fairway.
Neither of them minded when they were called in.
That wasn’t the case with Justin Rose, who was one shot behind and coming off back-to-back birdies to pull within one shot of the lead. He could see the clubhouse. He felt they were going to make it. And then he spoke.