ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — British Open officials found themselves in the perfect storm amid the storms that hit the Old Course at St. Andrews.
In anticipation of heavy rain that inundated the course Friday, delaying play more than three hours, officials had put pins on high locations of greens so that play would not be affected even more.
But when wind gusting to 45 mph hit early Saturday morning, those locations were so exposed that players could not keep their balls from moving on the holes near the sea.
The result was a delay of 10 hours and 46 minutes that forced officials to move back the final day of the Open to Monday, the first time that's happened since 1988.