With 26 players still to finish, play was abandoned for the day in the third round of the US PGA Championship last night when thunderstorms hit this particular part of the South Carolina coast and refused to budge.
For Rory McIlroy, who had cruised to the top of the leaderboard with a superb display of golf over the front nine of Kiawah Island’s Ocean Course, the suspension of play could not have come at a worse time.
For Tiger Woods, who was going backwards at the time, it will have given him time to regroup.
When play was called off, McIlroy was on four under par for the day and level, on six under par, with Vijay Singh, who had shared the overnight lead with