RBC Canadian Open, Sunday

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Anthony Kim was 4 under through his first nine holes when the third round was suspended at the RBC Canadian Open.

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RBC Canadian Open

PGATOUR.COM's The Live Report has all the news and notes from the RBC Canadian Open, and we'll be providing updates from Glen Abbey all day long for each round, so check back often. (All timestamps are Eastern Time.)

Jul. 27, 2009
By PGATOUR.COM Staff

PLAY HAS BEEN CALLED FOR THE DAY (4:47 p.m.): Once again, we are done early at the Canadian Open, where play has been suspended for the rest of the day. With lightning in the area, the grounds crew had to be pulled off the golf course along with everyone else. That means they won't be able to get the golf course ready in time to play again today. Third-round play will resume at 7:30 a.m. Monday with the final round slated for approximately 9:05 a.m. Television coverage will begin at 2:30 p.m. on GOLF CHANNEL. -- Brian Wacker

LIGHTNING IN THE AREA (4:30 p.m.): Everyone has been pulled off Glen Abbey, where lightning is in the area. That means the 5:30 p.m. re-start seems unlikely at this point. -- Brian Wacker

WHERE THEY ARE PLAYING (3:15 p.m.): There might not be any golf at the Canadian Open right now, but there is golf -- not to mention a tight leaderboard -- at the Nationwide Tour's Cox Classic pPresented by Lexus of Omaha, where Tadd Fujikawa is just two back of J.J. Killeen and Rich Barcelo.

Fujikawa, of course, made a splash earlier this year on the PGA TOUR, shooting a third-round 62 before eventually finishing in a tie for 32nd. Fujikawa doesn't have status on the Naitonwide Tour or the PGA TOUR, but a victory in Omaha would lock up a Nationwide Tour card for the next two years and likely putt the 18-year-old into the final stage of q-school. -- Brian Wacker

To follow the Cox Classic live, click here.

WEATHER UPDATE III (3 p.m.): Play is still suspended at the RBC Canadian Open and now the re-start time has been pushed back another hour to 5:30 p.m. That would give players almost 3 1/2 hours of daylight with sunset right around 8:50 p.m. -- if they play. No matter what, though, they'll be playing a lot of golf on Monday with the leaders still needing to play 30 more holes. -- Brian Wacker

WEATHER UPDATE III (1 p.m.): While play is scheduled to resume at 4:30 p.m., officials don't exactly sound confident that it will be able to. There are simply too many variables between now and then to guarantee golf will start back up on schedule and officials are cautiously optimistic as a result.

"The problem is really the golf course and all the water on it," tournament director Bill Paul told GOLF CHANNEL.

The other problem is that there is more weather in the area with the radar showing patches of red off to the west. As we saw with Bethpage Black at the U.S. Open, there's only so much water a golf course can hold and right now more than 4 inches of rain have saturated Glen Abbey this week. -- Brian Wacker

WEATHER UPDATE II (12:50 p.m.): Third-round play at the RBC Canadian Open is scheduled to resume at 4:30 p.m. today. That's the hope anyway. Either way, that means we will definitely have a Monday finish. Stay tuned for more information. -- Brian Wacker

KIM STALKING THE LEAD (12:25 p.m.): The latest delay at the RBC Canadian Open -- there have now been lengthy stoppages each of the last four days -- has to be maddening to players and maybe none more so than Anthony Kim.

When they were playing golf, Kim was playing well, getting off to a fast start in his third round this morning with five birdies in his first seven holes. A bogey on the par-4 ninth was the only blemish before play was stopped after 4 hours of golf had been played in the third round.

Kim's trainer says he's anxious to get back on the course and keep the momentum going and you can't blame him. Though he'd only hit 4 of 7 fairways and 5 of 9 greens in regulation, Kim had the short game working, taking just 10 putts over his first nine holes. For now he'll try to stay loose, but it will be difficult. -- Brian Wacker

WEATHER UPDATE (12:15 p.m.): It seems inevitable that the RBC Canadian Open is headed for a Monday finish. The sun is starting to poke through, but there is more weather on the radar, about 15 miles out and there have been several lightning hits in the area with three-tenths of an inch of rain having fallen today as well.

As tournament director Steve Carman said, Glen Abbey is like a sponge in a sink under a faucet right now. "What we do receive runs right off the surface," he told GOLF CHANNEL. Additional problems include the bunkers on the course, which will have to have a lot of water pumped out of them to make them playable.

The good news is that tomorrow's forecast looks much better with just a 20-30 percent chance of scattered storms and Carman sounded confident they could get all 72 holes in by the end of Monday. It might take an extra day, but 72 holes is always the goal on the PGA TOUR, even if it takes an extra day. -- Brian Wacker

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