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‘I’m just happy to be done’: Max Homa, Jason Day battle elements as rain rocks Wells Fargo Championship second round

“I think I deserve a soda after today, maybe some cookies, some kind of candy.”

POTOMAC, Md. — Playing in the morning’s fifth group, Max Homa was shocked his threesome finished their second round at the 2022 Wells Fargo Championship. He even told his caddie before the round he thought they’d only play eight holes due to the weather.

“I’m just happy to be done,” said Homa, one of just 11 players from the Friday morning wave to shoot under par.

The three-time PGA Tour winner battled the elements to tie for the low round of the day despite heavy and consistent rain, signing for a 4-under 66 to match the efforts of Luke List and Chad Ramey. Homa now sits in solo second at 7 under behind first-round leader Jason Day, who extended his lead to three shots at 10 under after a 3-under 67 at TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm, this year’s Wells Fargo host while Quail Hollow in Charlotte, North Carolina, prepares for the Presidents Cup in September.

“Yeah, Jason and I have been talking about it for like two and a half hours, that we can’t wait for it to be done and kick our feet up,” Homa said after the round. “I know he’s got his bus here so he’s going to go hang on the bus. I’m going to go sit on my bed and I think I deserve a soda after today, maybe some cookies, some kind of candy, I don’t know. I’m going to kick my feet up.”

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Instead of dreading the downpours, Ramey was embracing them.

“I just honestly try to embrace the conditions because I know there’s going to be a lot of guys out here that hate it. It just is what it is,” said the winner of the 2022 Corales Puntacana Championship. “As long as I can embrace the conditions and keep my mind right, I feel like I’m ahead of half the field.”

In 18 events this season, Ramey has made eight cuts and missed 10, finishing in the top 10 twice at the Puerto Rico Open in March, followed by his win three weeks later in Puntacana.

“It’s nice to be able to get in at 10 under through two rounds, especially with what kind of weather we’ve got coming in on the weekend,” added Day, noting how he loves to grind it out in tough conditions. “I’m looking forward to it. It’s nice to be back in the mix, nice to be leading. It’s still two more days left, so I can’t get too far ahead of myself.”

The former world No. 1 said something similar about managing expectations after he took the lead on Thursday, and that patience will be a useful 15th club with inclement weather in the forecast for the rest of the weekend. The Weather Channel is calling for overnight rain on Friday, with 10-15 mph winds and a 90% chance of rain on Saturday.

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Weather, start time, how to watch: What you need to know for Saturday at the Players Championship

Here’s what you need to know for Saturday at TPC Sawgrass.

It’s been, let’s just say, a slow start to the 2022 Player Championship at TPC Sawgrass. Heavy rain, wind, and thunderstorms have rolled into the Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, area over the last several days, flooding the golf course to a point that play was stopped Friday due to unplayable conditions.

The PGA Tour announced at 3 p.m. ET that play was canceled for the day and the earliest it will re-start is Saturday at 11 a.m. A massive storm system is set to hover above the course from 8 – 10 a.m. Saturday.

Due to all the delays, there have been many changes made to the schedule, both playing and TV. Here’s an update for Saturday at the Players.

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When does play resume?

The first round is scheduled to resume at 11:00 a.m. ET on Saturday, at the earliest. There are 47 players who still have to finish their first rounds.

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What does the weather look like?

There is a severe system set to hit the area from 8 a.m. – 10 a.m. After that, the wind is expected to be in the mid-teens throughout the rest of the day while the heavy rain subsides.

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Who’s playing well?

Tommy Fleetwood and Tom Hoge were joined by Brice Garnett at the top of the leaderboard Friday, however, Garnett is through just 13 holes of his opening round. Daniel Berger also played well after the re-start, sitting at 5-under through 16.

How to watch

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Saturday, March 12

TV

NBC: 12-6 p.m.

Radio

SiriusXM: 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

STREAM

ESPN+: 7:15 a.m.-6 p.m.

*All times subject to change based on the start of play.

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Weather, start time and how to watch: What you need to know for Friday at the Players Championship

Here’s what you need to know for a soggy Friday at TPC Sawgrass.

Mother Nature shook up the schedule at the 2022 Players Championship, dumping rain on the PGA Tour’s parade leading up to and during Thursday’s opening round.

According to the Tour, 1.3 inches of rain fell overnight at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, which put preferred lies into play and moved tee times back an hour due to “overnight rain and area thunderstorms.”

Another .45 inches fell during a 4 hour, 14 minute suspension of play due to more dangerous weather in the area. Play was then suspended due to darkness at 6:36 p.m. ET with the majority of the field yet to finish.

So what does that mean for Friday and the rest of the weekend? Here’s what you need to know.

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When does play resume?

The first round is scheduled to resume at 7:15 a.m. ET on Friday, with the first wave of second-round tee times scheduled to start sometime between 11 a.m.-1 p.m. ET.

Sixty-nine of the 72 players in the morning wave finished their first round. The group of Hank Lebioda, Henrik Norlander and Taylor Pendrith was the lone trio to not finish. On the flip side, 60 of 72 players in the afternoon wave began their first round.

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What does the weather look like?

On the positive side, Thursday night should be pretty clear. On the negative side, Friday doesn’t look great.

Sourcing PGA Tour Meteorologist Wayne Stettner, Golf Channel’s Todd Lewis said they’re expecting “anywhere from three quarters of an inch to an inch and a quarter of rain on Friday,” with thunderstorms and potentially damaging winds expected Saturday (plus an additional half-inch to an inch of rain).

At the time of this post, thunderstorms are in the forecast from 3 a.m-9 p.m. Friday.

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Who’s playing well?

A clean-shaven Tommy Fleetwood shares the lead with Tom Hoge after each fired 6-under 66s on Thursday. Kramer Hickok, Joaquin Niemann, Keith Mitchell and Anirban Lahiri are all T-3 at 5 under. Harold Varner III shot a 69 despite a triple-bogey 6 on the famed par-3 17th hole. He’s in a group that’s T-11 after the first day.

How to watch

You can watch Golf Channel for free on fuboTV. ESPN+ is the exclusive home for PGA Tour Live streaming. All times Eastern.

Friday, March 4

TV

Golf Channel: 12-6 p.m.

Radio

SiriusXM: 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

STREAM

ESPN+: 7:15 a.m.-6 p.m.

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Dangerous weather delays first round of 2022 Players Championship for second time on Thursday

Before noon ET the PGA Tour’s flagship event had already been delayed twice by weather.

And now we wait.

Inclement weather was in the forecast leading up to Thursday’s first round of the 2022 Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, but there was optimism for a Sunday finish.

Before noon ET, the PGA Tour’s flagship event had already been delayed twice by weather.

At 5:35 a.m. ET the PGA Tour Communications Twitter account shared that opening round tee times would be “delayed by one hour due to overnight rain and area thunderstorms” and that preferred lies would be in effect.

The first round began at 7:45 a.m. ET before the horn blew at 11 a.m. ET “due to dangerous weather in the area.”

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There are currently no updates on when play will resume.

Harold Varner III, Will Zalatoris and Tommy Fleetwood are tied atop the leaderboard at 4 under.

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Northern Trust: Monday weather updates, preferred lies and more for the final round

Updates for Monday’s final-round finish.

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – Nine inches of rain.

That’s how much rainfall drenched Liberty National, site of the Northern Trust, since 7 p.m. ET on Saturday.

“Bad news is we had three times the amount of flood precipitation that was forecasted but the good news is we didn’t have the wind,” said PGA Tour rules official John Mutch. “So we didn’t have the damage on the structures or trees or anything like that.”

All that rain has left the grounds crew with plenty of work to do to prep the course. Tee times, originally scheduled to begin at 7:30 ET, have been pushed back four hours.

“Now we are just pushing water. The bunkers have all been repaired. The maintenance staff has done an incredible job. They have worked through the night as has all the ops team and everyone else,” said Mutch. “So we plan to start at 11:30 today. It’s going to continue to dry. Fairways are remarkably good for nine inches of rain but obviously it is wet.”

As a result, the final round of the first leg of the FedEx Cup will be played under preferred lies.

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“These fairways are all sand capped so that’s helped us a lot. This golf course is built on sand. It’s a links style course, right on the Hudson, so it does drain well,” Mutch said. “Also what hurt us a little bit is we had high tide this morning and a full moon last night. So it all kind of works together.”

Mutch also confirmed that the course can’t take on any more water.

“We have definitely reached field capacity. But as the tide goes out, so will the ponds drain, and right now the forecast is pretty good for next four to six hours. We have some chance of something hitting us tonight, some embedded cells. I’m being optimistic and hoping that that doesn’t happen,” he said. “If it does happen, the meteorologist thinks we can get up to an inch. But after that from that point on, we don’t have any predicted rain.”

Another band of storms could roll through beginning around 3 p.m., but by 7 o’clock the Tour’s meteorologist predicts the storm will have headed east of the course. Regardless of the fact, the plan is to play on until 72 holes is completed, even if that means returning to finish on Tuesday, per a modification in the tournament rules that was rubber-stamped by PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan.

“Yesterday evening we had a call, and because of the importance of the FedExCup and how these tournaments are linked to each other, one to the next and then to the next and finally to East Lake, it’s paramount in his view, and our view, that we play 72 holes. And that we do everything in our power to get 72 holes in,” Mutch said. “Like I said, we have a good forecast for Tuesday, and if we don’t get hit by anything tonight, we’ll have it done tonight.”

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