BRISBANE, Australia — The second spherical of the Australian PGA championship was washed out Friday attributable to rain and an unplayable course and the event has been shortened to 54 holes.
Officers for the Australasian PGA Tour and European Tour occasion made the announcement greater than 5 hours after the primary group was scheduled to tee off at Royal Queensland.
There had been about 25 millimeters (one inch) of rain in a single day Thursday, including to the 200 millimeters (eight inches) that had hit the course earlier within the week. Rain started falling closely once more on the course as the choice was made to desert Friday’s play and scale back the event to a few rounds.
Organizers have been hampered by the truth that Queensland state, the place the event is being performed, doesn’t function on daylight time, which means play past 6 p.m. or 6:30 p.m. was not potential.
The climate forecast for the weekend was for improved situations.
Australian 22-year-old Elvis Smylie, son of former tennis professional Liz Smylie, led after the primary spherical with a 6-under 65. He had a one-stroke lead over French participant Victor Perez, Australian Matias Sanchez, Switzerland’s Joel Girrbach and Chile’s Cristobal Del Photo voltaic, who birdied 4 of his final 5 holes on a soggy course on Thursday afternoon.
Native drawcards and main winners Cameron Smith and Jason Day, in his first Australian occasion in seven years, have been two photographs behind Smylie after 67s.
Min Woo Lee, who received final 12 months’s event at Royal Queensland, shot 68 and was three strokes off the lead. Lee, Day and Smith have been in the identical group Thursday.
The Australian PGA is the primary occasion of the 2025 European Tour season.
Most of the identical gamers will journey to Melbourne subsequent week for the Australian Open, additionally on the European Tour, which is being performed concurrently with the Ladies’s Australian Open at famed sandbelt programs Kingston Heath and Victoria.
