The Loop

Fields: Play Suspended for the Day

August 09, 2008

BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- Play has been called for the day at 6:30 p.m. in the PGA Championship, setting up a marathon conclusion Sunday at Oakland Hills.

Play is scheduled to resume at 7:15 a.m. Sunday. The three groups that did not begin their rounds Saturday will go off starting at 7:20 a.m. Thirty-six hole leader J.B. Holmes and Charlie Wi will tee off in the third round at 7:40 a.m. PGA of America officials expect the third round to be completed by 11:50 a.m.

The final round will begin at 12:20 p.m. off the first and 10th tees in threesomes, with the last pairing to go off at 2:20 p.m.

Holmes is at one-under 139, one shot ahead of Wi, with David Toms and Henrik Stenson another stroke behind.

-- Bill Fields