Shane Lowry must wait till at present to renew his cost for FedExCup glory — and revel in a brief reunion along with his previous caddie Dermot Byrne — after the primary spherical of the Wyndham Championship was postponed as a result of Tropical Storm Debby.
Authorities issued a flash flood warning for the North Carolina area as winds gusting over 40 mph lashed Sedgefield Nation Membership and meteorologists forecast as much as six inches of rainfall by day’s finish.
Play was initially delayed till 3 pm native time earlier than the Tour determined to postpone the primary spherical till at present.
ELowry is the top-ranked participant within the area, and he could have a well-known face on the bag in Byrne, who not too long ago parted firm with Leona Maguire and is filling this week for Darren Reynolds, who has a household dedication.
It’s a key week for Lowry, who’s defending tenth place within the Comcast Enterprise Tour Prime 10 standings, which pays out a $20 million bonus among the many top-10 finishers within the FedExCup Common Season standings, that are determined this week.
It’s additionally an important occasion for 69th-ranked Seamus Phower, as solely the highest 70 will progress to the primary Playoff occasion, the FedEx St Jude Championship in Memphis subsequent week, the place Olympic champion Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, and Rory McIlroy will return to motion.
There have been no such climate issues within the 114th Irish PGA Championship at Palmerstown Home Property in Co Kildare, the place two-time champion Niall Kearney carded a course report, bogey-free, eight-under 64 to share the lead with Glasson Lakehouse’s Colm Moriarty on six-under-par heading into the ultimate spherical.
“I performed stable,” Kearney mentioned. “Afast begin was key for momentum after which I received it going across the again 9 with 4 birdies in a row from 14 to 17.
“The climate was a bit extra beneficial for scoring at present in comparison with yesterday. I’ve been enjoying nicely for some time so good to show it right into a rating at present.”
Searching for his first win within the occasion, two-time runner-up Moriarty carded a four-under 68 in spherical two to affix Kearney on six-under, one stroke away from Derry’s Michael McGeady, who shot 68, and Mount Wolseley’s Sean O’Donoghue, who posted a 70.
Kilkenny’s Jimmy Bolger shot 67 whereas Limerick’s Tim Rice and Roganstown’s Neil O’Briain posted 71s to share fifth place on two-under, 4 photographs off the tempo.
Within the Farmfoods Scottish Problem supported by the R&A, Ballymena’s Dermot McElroy posted a two-under 69 to steer the eight-strong Irish problem.
He’s tied for twenty fifth, 4 strokes behind South Africa’s Dean Germishuys and Denmark’s Peter Launer Baek, who carded six-under 65s to move John Axelson of Denmark and Scotland’s Jack McDonald by one stroke at Newmachar.
Conor O’Rourke and Jonathan Caldwell had been thirty eighth after one-under 70s whereas Portmarnock’s Conor Purcell, who recorded his maiden win at NI Problem two weeks in the past, is in peril of lacking his second reduce in a row after opening with a 74.
In the meantime, Eire beat Wales 16-5 on day two of the Males’s and Girls’s House Internationals at Murcar Hyperlinks in Scotland to arrange a conflict with England for the title at present.
Eire claimed the foursomes 5-2 because of wins for Liam Nolan and Luke O’Neill, Sean Keeling and Hugh Foley, Colm Campbell and Paul Coughlan, Thomas Higgins and Joshua Hill and Aine Donegan and Aideen Walsh.
Eire went on to say the singles 11-3 because of wins for Beth Coulter, Sara Byrne, Emma Fleming, Anna Foster, Donegan, Nolan, Keeling, Foley, Campbell and Higgins and halved matches for O’Neill and Ryan Griffin.
England beat Scotland 12-9.
