Snow Cancels Saturday’s Pac-12 Championships Play

Saturday, April 29

Boulder, CO

TBD

California

Pac-12 Championships

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An unusual site at a 2017 Pac-12 Men's Golf Championship on Saturday with snow blanketing the Boulder Country Club

Photo by: Cliff Grassmick

4/29/2017 6:46 PM | Men's Golf

Conference Championships Shortened To Maximum Of 54 Holes And Scheduled To Resume Sunday

By: Cal Athletics

BOULDER, Colo. – Saturday's scheduled play at the Pac-12 Championships was cancelled due to snow that made conditions at the par-70, 7129-yard Boulder Country Club unplayable. The event has been shortened to a maximum of 54 holes with the hopes of finishing Friday's suspended second round and playing the entire third round Sunday.

"Waking up this morning to snow everywhere was hard to believe knowing we're at our conference championships," Alex and Marie Shipman Director of Men's Golf Walter Chun said. "Sitting at the hotel all day wondering if we would play led to an anxious waiting game. We want to compete, and it looks like we'll get to play at some point tomorrow. Having the tournament cut down to 54 holes isn't what we had hoped for, but given the conditions, that's what we were dealt with by Mother Nature."

The earliest start Sunday for the completion of the second round will be 10 am MDT/9 am PDT, followed by the third round with a shotgun start. The weather forecast for Sunday calls for mostly sunny or sunny skies throughout the day with temperatures warming to 53 degrees and a forecast of 41 degrees at 10 am MDT/9 am PDT. At least 36 holes of the championship being co-hosted by Colorado and the Pac-12 that started Friday must be completed to be official.

Cal (367-364 – 731, +31) was in a tie for fourth place when play was suspended due to darkness late in the second round Friday. The Golden Bears are one of the six teams in the 12-team field to have completed 36 holes with the other six having between one and four holes per player to complete their second rounds.

Defending national champion Oregon (+16) and Washington (+19) were the top two teams on the leaderboard when play was stopped Friday while third-place Stanford (363-363 – 726, +26) has the top score among the six teams that have completed 36 holes.

Wyndham Clark of Oregon and Carl Yuan of Washington are tied for the individual lead at two-under par through their first 16 holes of the second round, while USC's Rico Hoey (72-68 – 140, E) is the top player on the leaderboard to be finished with 36 holes.

Collin Morikawa (74-68 – 142, +2) is in sixth place four shots off the lead to pace a trio of Golden Bears in the top 20 with Finigan Tilly (73-73 – 146, +6) and Walker Huddy (72-74 – 146, +6) tied for 16th. Sean Yu (T30th, 73-75 – 148, +8), Tanner Hughes (T42nd, 75-75 – 150, +10) and William Aldred (T55th, 78-74 – 152, +12) are also in the Cal lineup.