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It snows in Arizona?

The World Golf Championships – Accenture Match Play Championship was postponed Wednesday due to snow. This is the second time in three years that snow affected play in the WGC match play event.

The tournament is being held at The Golf Club at Dove Mountain in Marana, AZ, a place that rarely gets any snow.

Four hours into the event a storm came through and dropped two inches of snow onto the course causing play to be suspended until Thursday morning. The delay left players pretty surprised as most of them aren’t accustomed to snow. Of course, some players from the northern part of the country like Keegan Bradley played in the snow before, but never on tour.

Fortunately the delay didn’t ruin anybody’s day as snowballs replaced golf balls, caddies made snow angels, and someone even created a desert snow man. Just a weird day for golf in Arizona.

Thankfully, for some tardy fans, they still have time to fill out their bracket and catch all the action this weekend.

The tournament is set to resume at 8:30 a.m. Thursday morning and officials hope to have the first and second round matches concluded on Friday to return the schedule to normal.

 

 

Teased with 59, Mickelson falls short of PGA record

After coming so close on Thursday to shooting a 59, Phil Mickelson stood on the 18th hole on Friday needing a par to break the 36 hole scoring record.

 

In a typical Phil Mickelson melt down, he drove the ball into the water and double bogeyed the hole and failed to break Pat Perez’s record that was set at the 2009 Bob Hope Classic.

 

David Toms also matched Perez’s record of 124 strokes at Colonial in 2011.

 

A consolation for Phil “I’ll always be second best to Tiger” Mickelson however; he tied Mark Calcavecchia’s tournament record recorded in 2001.