Joberg Open suspended

The Joburg Open will be completed over 54 holes after more bad weather forced play to be suspended on Saturday.

Play had already been suspended on Friday evening due to poor light, and a large number of players were up early to complete their second rounds on Saturday morning, with Paul Waring and Darren Fichardt tied at the top after 36 holes.

But thunder and lightning arrived in the early afternoon and play was initially suspended at 12.57pm local time, before being completely cancelled as the rain kept pouring down.

The third round will resume at 07.00am on Sunday morning.

There had been over 200 millimetres of rain during the week and Saturday’s storm had unloaded 35mm more within the first hour of it striking.

Tournament director David Williams said: "We've suspended play for the day because the course is now completely waterlogged.

"The forecast for tomorrow is pretty good. I think we'll just have to wait and see how much damage is done today because at the moment it's coming down very hard and obviously it's coming down onto an already saturated course.

"So we'll just keep our fingers crossed that we have a reasonably good evening, that we can restart tomorrow and get finished over three rounds.

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