What do stars do when Northern Trust takes an unexpected break?

Storm Henri made landfall in New York on the morning of August 22, local time, 11 hours after Hanoi time, causing the Northern Trust’s final round to be postponed to the next day. As a result, 74 players were accidentally banned, including world number one Jon Rahm.

Rahm and Cameron Smith are holding the top of the 54-hole table at -16. “I guess I’ll have to practice in the TopGolf branch. Assuming I lead a club, I’ll wait for the rain for two more days so I don’t have to play again,” joked Rahm.

The Spanish golfer does not worry about the lack of entertainment when staying in one place thanks to the experience from two periods of self-isolation due to nCoV infection – at the Memorial tournament in June and before Tokyo 2020 at the end of the month. “I think this hurricane day is just like the Covid-19 quarantine. It’s always time to eat. My family stays at a hotel, so instead of going to a restaurant, I can call room service. I hope they still have room to eat. open a spa or a fitness area for us to experience.”

Rahm also wants to take advantage of this unexpected day off to help his wife take care of the children. “My wife and I have a four-month-old baby. He needs to be taken care of by his parents, so this stormy day must be a happy family day,” he said.

Smith climbed to the top of the table with 60 strokes in the penultimate round, including two missed opportunities to touch a rare 59 on the PGA Tour. “I think it’s difficult to maintain form after a round of ecstasy. So this day off is useful. I will recuperate, sleep a little more, and then do light exercise to continue playing at the beginning of the week,” said Australian golfer. 1993 about the storm day plan. Smith won three PGA Tour cups, on August 6 hit the record for the “least putt match” in arena history with 18 putts for the whole second round of WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational.

Tony Finau is at T4, two strokes from Smith. In the third round, he played well, got on the green to a good standard. But Finau is still not satisfied with the putt and short game. Therefore, he chose to practice while playing when he did not have to play all day yesterday. Finau practices putt in his room, can have fun with chips on the carpet lining the floors. “After the third round, I brought the putter back to my room to practice more. If you want to avoid boredom, you can invite a few more hands to the hallway to take a chip test. This stroke on the carpet is difficult to do. But that is beneficial in real combat. “, Finau shared the program “one choice, two conveniences”.

Viktor Hovland is different. “I’m just in my room. It’s stormy. The plan is to watch movies, chat with friends, do light exercise. I have no shortage of ways to kill time,” the Swiss player revealed. Born in 1997, he has won two PGA Tour Cups over two years professionally. At the Northern Trust this time around, Hovland is one stick away from Finau.

PGA Tour hopes to close the curtain today, August 23, despite the forecast of heavy rain in the local weather. If not done, they will push the final round to Tuesday. Northern Trust could not finish or take the final result with 54 holes, due to the series of three playoffs to find the owner of the FedEx Cup and a bonus of 15 million USD.

PGA Tour postponed the second round of Zozo Championship 2019 in Japan due to typhoon Bualoi. At that time, Tiger Woods, Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth still ventured into downtown Narita to watch the blockbuster “Joker”. The three had to sit in Domino’s Pizza to wait for the storm to clear. Heavy rain caused the tournament to close at the beginning of the week instead of the usual Sunday. At that time, Woods won at point -19 and, along with the legendary Sam Snead, owned a record of 82 PGA Tour titles.

Quoc Huy