OCALA, Fla. – Lydia Ko told her playing competitors during the second round of the Coates Golf Championship that she’d never experienced a suspension of play when on the last green. The forecast called for 100 percent chance of rain and thunderstorms. It wasn’t a matter of if, but when.
“The girls were saying, ‘Ah, now that we said it it’ll probably happen,” said Ko. “And guess what? It did.”
The horn blew at 12:45 p.m., just as Ko reached the ninth green (her last) at Golden Ocala Golf and Equestrian Club. She has a 15-foot birdie putt up the hill left to complete a bogey-free round.