The Masters: Will more wet and stormy weather lead to rare Monday finish at Augusta National? | Golf News

The Masters might be in line for its first Monday end in 40 years with additional inclement climate predicted throughout the weekend; three bushes fell amid robust winds on Friday resulting in play being suspended; watch reside on Saturday on Sky Sports activities Golf

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Play in the course of the second spherical at The Masters was suspended shortly after bushes fell on the seventeenth gap amid excessive winds

The Masters has not completed on a Monday since 1983 – however that run might finish this 12 months with play suspended on account of storms on Friday and moist climate forecast over the weekend.

The motion is scheduled to renew at 8am native time (1pm BST) on Saturday, with 39 gamers, together with Jon Rahm, Viktor Hovland and Tiger Woods – who resumed on the reduce mark – amongst these to finish their second rounds.

Event chief Brooks Koepka completed his second spherical earlier than the inclement climate arrived later within the day, carding a five-under 67 to maneuver to 12 underneath – three away from Rahm – in his pursuit of a fifth main championship and first for the reason that 2019 PGA Championship.

The felled bushes had been chopped into extra manageable items in order that they might be faraway from the course

Between an inch and two of rain is predicted to fall on what is about to be a cold Saturday in Georgia, the place thunderstorms are forecast once more early within the day, threatening additional delays and rising the chance a primary five-day Augusta Nationwide main in 40 years.

What has occurred to date?

The second spherical was halted for simply over 20 minutes because of the menace of storms however resumed simply earlier than 3.30pm native time (8.30pm BST), solely to be stopped once more lower than an hour later because of the menace of additional inclement climate.

A number of spectators had a fortunate escape as robust winds introduced three bushes crashing down with out harm, whereas security checks can be a precedence with gusts of 25-30 miles per hour forecast once more on day three.

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Jamie Weir provides an replace on the incident at Augusta Nationwide, with nobody injured after bushes toppled

An Augusta Nationwide assertion learn: “Augusta Nationwide Golf Membership can verify that no accidents had been reported from three bushes that had been blown over to the left of the No 17 tee on account of wind.

“The security and well-being of everybody attending the Masters match will at all times be the highest precedence of the membership. We are going to proceed to intently monitor climate.”

Sky Sports activities Information’ Jamie Weir, reporting from on web site, stated: “For Augusta Nationwide, clearly there are some huge choices to make.

“There’s plenty of rain forecast, the bottom goes to get softer, and whereas it is a full freak incident, they wish to be solely positive that no different bushes are in danger.”

Will rain and storms take The Masters right into a fifth day?

One eyewitness, Augusta patron Deshey Thomas, stated “we had been blessed” after nobody was injured by the falling bushes.

“Pine cones had been hitting us within the again, we circled and appeared up and heard an enormous cracking noise. The tree principally crushed 10 chairs that had been sitting there. Fortunately we bought everybody out of there.”

Megan Hill advised the Augusta Chronicle: “I used to be sitting, wanting, ready for the following group to come back as much as the tee and it fell perhaps eight to 10 chairs to our left.

“I stood up and screamed and thought, ‘Is it going to fall on me?’ It fell to the left of us and it was so scary. If the wind had been blowing a barely completely different path, we’d have gotten hit.”

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