Kevin got off to a great start today, shooting 31 (5 under) on the opening nine. The only green we missed was on our first hole when the ball ran through the fringe finishing only 15 feet from the hole.
When we made the turn, it was like someone turned a switch. The winds kicked up to 25 mph and starting swirling from every direction. We played three and a half holes in the wind until Tour officials suspended play. Kevin continued to hit the ball great in those tough conditions and had three great looks at birdie. We had to settle for pars and we are in the fairway on number 4 (our 13th) when play was suspended for the day.
Reports had wind gust up to 50 mph. Leaderboards, tents, trees, port-a-potties were falling everywhere. The large leaderboard on 18 fell into the lake. A smaller leaderboard fell on a volunteer. Hospitality tents fell and even a port-a-potty tipped over with someone in it!! Funny but not funny. That is almost as funny as when we met President Clinton on the tenth tee yesterday and he told our amateur players (who were smoking cigars), that he "really likes cigars". That is not a joke, he really said that!!
We will resume play tomorrow morning at 7:30am. The amateurs are done for the week, so we will finish our round in a twosome. Once play is completed and the cut is made, we will play round four in threesomes off the 1st and 10 tees. The Tour is hoping to start round four around 10am.
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