MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- Ducks waded through standing water on fairways. Some bunkers flooded. Golfers put waterproof winter mittens on between shots.
Ah yes. Welcome to the World Cup of Golf on Friday at Metropolitan. If the format was match play, the rain, cold and windy weather would have beaten the golfers, 10 and 8.
But it was foursomes, where players hit alternate shots, and where one might curse under their breath at the predicament their teammate had left them in - the rough, on mud, in a bunker or with a difficult angle into the green.