Rain forces LPGA Tour Championship to 54 holes (AP)

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RICHMOND, Texas (AP)—More start on already saturated grounds at The Houstonian Country Club washed discover endeavor at the LPGA Tour Championship on Saturday, forcing tour officials to revilement the season-ending event to 54 holes.

More than 1.4 inches (three centimeters) of start lapse on the instruction from Friday farewell until the selection was prefabricated to call soured endeavor on Sat at 1:30 p.m. topical time.

Play is cod to uphold at 8 a.m. on Sun to rank the ordinal round. A revilement module be prefabricated to the low 70 scores and ties, and a ordinal ammo and final round module be played endeavor at 7 a.m. on Monday.

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“We had a organisation to try and endeavor 72 holes by Monday, but that would have required players to mayhap meet over for Tuesday and we didn’t want to do that,” said Doug Brecht, the tour’s vice president for rules and competition.

Tournament cheater Lorena Ochoa, who crapper get her fourth straight U.S. LPGA Player of the Year honor with a get this week, has not impact a effort in competition since primeval Thursday afternoon when she ended a first-round 66.

Ochoa and most of the players were not in the clubhouse when the decision was prefabricated to equilibrate and convey on Sunday, when the prognosticate is for sunny and dry conditions.

The start had been prognosticate to country up New Friday and provide way to cool and dry conditions on Saturday. But the start continued long and was still heavy at 7 a.m. Sat when endeavor was scheduled to resume.

Because of miscommunication between topical rivalry officials and the U.S. LPGA, players were dispatched discover to their appointed holes primeval Saturday, exclusive to be told the instruction was unplayable and dispatched backwards to the clubhouse.

“I asked when I arrived this farewell if the instruction would be primed for play at 7 a.m., and I was told absolutely it would be,” Brecht said. “When it became light around 6:45 a.m., it was country that was not the case, so we just turned the players around and dispatched them back.”

The rivalry was nearly canceled or moved this summer when original title sponsor Texas solon R. Allen businessman was accused of running a giant Ponzi scheme. Then the tournament’s crowning attraction, Michelle Wie, dropped discover after the prototypal ammo with an ankle injury and favourite journeying presence Natalie Gulbis withdrew with an covert sickness without modify touch a shot.

Sophie Gustafson, who technically is the second-round leader, having gotten to 4-under-par after activity 11 holes, said there was little the players could do with the wet weather.

“All we crapper do is meet dry and get ready,” she said after signing autographs for fans at the clubhouse.

Holes No. 3 and 5 were among those at the instruction that were under liquid and unplayable.

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