WM Phoenix Open likely to finish during Super Bowl after delays

Sorry golf followers, in order for you to catch the tip of the WM Phoenix Open Sunday, you could be late to your Super Bowl social gathering.

Well that’s if the match even ends on Sunday night.

After a number of climate delays already this week — totaling 5 hours and 34 minutes — play during the third spherical was suspended due to darkness Saturday evening at 6:13 p.m. MT with the ultimate group of Nick Taylor, Sahith Theegala and Andrew Novak on the seventh inexperienced.

“I felt like I had a 12-hour day the first day, nothing yesterday, and then another 12-plus-hour day today,” Theegala stated. “So ready for another 10-, 12-hour day tomorrow. It’s been a weird week, and I’m actually really exhausted right now. It’s not often you play two days of— not necessarily even a lot of holes but just a lot going on.”

The ultimate group wasn’t the one one not to full their third spherical, the complete subject will come again to TPC Scottsdale at 7:30 a.m. to finish up the penultimate spherical.

That nearly definitely means the finish will go up in opposition to the largest battle in tv — the Super Bowl. And that’s if there aren’t any extra delays.

It’s been an uncharacteristically chilly week in Scottsdale and temperatures are anticipated to dip into the mid-30s Saturday evening, making for a major likelihood for frost Sunday morning. The resumption of first-round play Friday morning was delayed an hour and 43 minutes due to frost.

There stays about three hours of play remaining within the third spherical. After about quarter-hour to re-pair gamers, it’s potential the ultimate spherical might start someplace between 10:30 and 11 a.m. with the ultimate group teeing off two hours later, nearer to 1 p.m. native.

The tempo of play hasn’t precisely been speedy this week, with the ultimate group didn’t even finish seven holes of their third spherical Saturday night in two hours of play. A five-hour place of play would imply the ultimate put would fall someday round 6 p.m. native, 8 p.m. ET. That’s roughly when Usher is about to go on for the halftime present after the 6:30 p.m. ET kickoff.

The NBC broadcast was scheduled to log off at 4 p.m. MT, 6 p.m. ET, giving followers an excellent half-hour to catch a number of the pre-game festivities from Las Vegas.

Now Golf followers will likely miss the complete first half of the sport between the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs.

However, with the approaching likelihood of frost, any delay on Sunday might push the finish to Monday as sundown Sunday in Scottsdale is 6:09 p.m. MT. The horn was blown about 5 minutes after sundown on Saturday night, with gamers persevering with for a couple of minutes after that.

Perhaps working within the occasion’s favor is the absence of any extra rain within the forecast. After Saturday began with a brief delay amid heavy rain, the PGA Tour’s forecast reveals a zero p.c likelihood of rain for each Sunday and Monday.

So sports activities followers bought that going for us, which is sweet.

Jack Hirsh

Golf.com Editor

Jack Hirsh is an assistant editor at GOLF. A Pennsylvania native, Jack is a 2020 graduate of Penn State University, incomes levels in broadcast journalism and political science. He was captain of his highschool golf group and lately returned to this system to function head coach. Jack additionally nonetheless *tries* to stay aggressive in native amateurs. Before becoming a member of GOLF, Jack spent two years working at a TV station in Bend, Oregon, primarily as a Multimedia Journalist/reporter, but in addition producing, anchoring and even presenting the climate. He could be reached at jack.hirsh@golf.com.