A severe storm raised safety concerns and forced postponement of the final round of the US PGA Tour’s Pebble Beach Pro-Am to Monday tournament officials announced on Sunday.
One day after reigning US Open champion Wyndham Clark set a course record with a 12-under par 60 at the seaside California layout, heavy rain soaked the iconic course with high winds blowing in high waves.
The final round was rescheduled to begin Monday morning off the first and 10th tees.
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“Our regulations say we need to make every effort to play 72 holes, which includes playing on Monday,” PGA Tour chief referee Gary Young said.
There is, however, a chance that the tournament will be declared after just the 54 holes, which would see Clark win the A$30 million event.
“We would not start play on Monday if we knew we couldn’t finish the round on Monday,” Young said.
“So, the drop-dead time on that would mean we would have to start play on Monday by 10:15 a.m. at the latest in order to complete play.”
More rain is scheduled for the Monday morning at Pebble Beach, raising further concerns about playing conditions.
Play can extend into Tuesday, Young said, but only if more than half of the playing field has completed their round on Monday.
Clark lowered the old Pebble Beach 18-hole mark of 62 set by Tom Kite in 1983 and matched by fellow Americans David Duval in 1997 and Patrick Cantlay in 2021 plus Austrian Matthias Schwab in 2022.
Clark tops the field after 54 holes on 17-under 199 with Sweden’s Ludvig Aberg one stroke back and France’s Matthieu Pavon, who won last week at Torrey Pines, two adrift.
Belgian Thomas Detry and American Mark Hubbard share fourth on 202 with a pack on 203 including world number one Scottie Scheffler, two-time PGA Championship winner Justin Thomas, fellow American Tom Hoge and Australian Jason Day.
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