Well, I gotta tell ya, this here PGA Championship got itself into a pickle. They had to go and stop it, you know, suspended it. All these fancy golfers with their sticks and balls, and Mother Nature just decided she had enough.
Seems like the weather went all wonky. One minute the sun’s shinin’ and the next… bam! Rain comin’ down like cats and dogs. Or maybe it was the wind. Lordy, that wind can be a mean thing, blowin’ everything all over the place. I heard tell those little white balls were rollin’ all over the green, couldn’t even stay put! Sounds like a mess to me.
- First they said it was thunderstorms. You know, the kind with the lightnin’ and thunder that makes the ground shake. Scared the bejesus outta me just hearin’ about it.
- Then they said it was the wind. Now, I’ve seen some wind in my day, but this sounded like the kind that could rip the roof right off your house. No wonder them golfers couldn’t play.
- And sometimes, it was just too darn dark! Can’t see where you’re hittin’ that little ball in the dark now, can ya? They gotta wait for the sun to come back up.
They got all these big names there, you know. Scottie Scheffler, he was doin’ real good, way ahead of them other fellas. Collin Morikawa and Xander Schauffele, they were tryin’ to catch up, but that Scottie, he’s a quick one.
But then they blew that horn or whatever they do, and everybody had to pack it in. Stopped play right in the middle of things. Must be frustratin’ for them golfers, all geared up and ready to go, and then… nothin’. Just gotta sit around and wait. Like waitin’ for the cows to come home, only slower.
I heard tell they’re showin’ it on the TV, all them channels like Golf Channel and CBS. And if you got one of them fancy internets, you can watch it on that too, somethin’ called ESPN+, Peacock, and Paramount+. Sounds like a bunch of bird names to me, but I guess that’s how them young folks do things these days.
They had to stop one time ’cause it got too dark. Imagine that! Too dark to play golf. They call that “suspended due to darkness.” Well, I coulda told ‘em it was gettin’ dark. You don’t need to be a fancy golf official to see that.
Another time it was the rain. Said it was floodin’ the whole course. Well, when it rains, it pours, that’s what I always say. Can’t play golf in a lake now, can ya? They had to just give up for the day and make it a shorter tournament. 54 holes instead of the usual. Guess them golfers got a little break, but I bet they didn’t want it that way.
And then there was that time the wind was so bad, it was causin’ all sorts of havoc. Balls rollin’ everywhere, couldn’t even putt straight. Fifty mile per hour gusts, they said. That’s enough to blow your hat clean off your head and send it flyin’ into the next county.
So, this PGA Championship, it’s been a real stop-and-go kinda thing. Weather’s been messin’ with ‘em somethin’ fierce. You just never know what’s gonna happen next. One minute they’re playin’, the next they’re packin’ up their clubs and headin’ inside. It’s a real nail-biter, even if you’re just watchin’ it on the TV. Keeps ya guessin’, that’s for sure.
But you know what? That’s just life. Sometimes things don’t go as planned. You just gotta roll with the punches, like them golfers. They’ll get back out there eventually, when the weather decides to cooperate. And when they do, I’ll be watchin’, cheerin’ ‘em on. Even if I don’t understand half of what they’re doin’ out there with them sticks and balls.
Suspended PGA championship, that’s what they’re callin’ it. Sounds fancy, but it just means they had to stop. And that’s the long and short of it, plain and simple, just like I told ya.
