Round 1: Waste Management Phoenix Open

February 3 2012

9:24 am

Frost delays start again in Phoenix

For the second straight day, frost has delayed the start of play at the Waste Management Phoenix Open.

With 42 players having yet to complete the opening round after a 1-hour delay on Thursday, play was scheduled to resume at 9:30 a.m. ET, but that has now been bumped back an hour to 10:30 a.m. ET.

Ryan Palmer is the leader at 7 under after a 64 Thursday, though three players, including Bubba Watson, are two strokes back with holes still to play in the opening round.

The second round, meanwhile, will begin alongside the conclusion of the first round at 8:30 as well.

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Bruce

February 3rd, 2012 9:30 am

Not sure what they can do. This seems to happen every year.
Justin

February 3rd, 2012 10:17 am

So when this happens do they use the same pins two days in a row?
eddy

February 3rd, 2012 11:04 am

Expand the field, start on Wed., capacity crowds would love it. Frost and limited daylight disjoint play, work WITH nature, why fight it? Mon. finishes suck. 36 hole draw, you draw “early”, great, you draw “late”, who cares. Play Golf. The draw never actually plays out in real time at this event anyway. How many guys are screwing around all day today waiting for their time? Why?
Bruce

February 3rd, 2012 11:11 am

No. They change the pins for the 2nd round.
Bill

February 3rd, 2012 11:11 am

The final groups from the first round had completed the first few holes of their back nine, so the grounds crew will just cut new pin placements as they complete each hole on each side. The first groups off for the second round may have to pace themselves a bit, so they’re not sitting around in the fairway with their thumbs up their #*#es waiting to hit their approach shots.
Old Shabby

February 3rd, 2012 2:52 pm

Frost — the enemy of the greenskeepers and golfers everywhere to be sure.
My question is this: Why can’t the folks who prepare the course, e.g., Scottsdale TPC, simply water down the greens prior to the first start times? I know the 1/8th inch high grass on the greens is delicate, and I know that same grass is 90% water, so … why not water them? The water used has got to be considerably warmer than the frost.
Just asking…