Storm blows Honda Classic scoreboard into a lake

(via Kyle Porter)

The PGA Tour has had relatively few weather disruptions this season. It’s been a smooth ride free from some of the obscene wind, snow, floods, lightning and fog that has crushed the early season schedule in recent years. But things have changed now that West Coast swing has ended and we’re on the Florida swing.

Storms were expected to pop up and delay the Honda Classic this week, but the last two days have been a mess that no one anticipated at PGA National. It started Friday, a second round full of stops and starts and a waterlogged course that needed hours to drain. With four hours worth of delays, and a 90 percent chance of storms Saturday, it always looked like a Sunday finish was a long shot.

Well, Saturday came and that predicted weather was a little more than your average thunderstorm. The course went almost completely underwater and winds blasted palm trees around and even knocked over the scoreboard along the 18th fairway.

When the sun came back out Sunday, someone had fished the scoreboard out of the lake.

That Honda parked in the middle of the lake was steady through the storm, and even had its wheels visible again by Sunday morning.

There was so much water on the course that the Tour pushed the Sunday resumption of the third round back from 7 a.m. ET to 10 a.m. ET just so they could get it playable. A Sunday on-time finish is obviously out of the question with some players just three holes into their round and the leaders still waiting to tee off. They won’t re-pair the players according to score like a normal tournament, instead just sending them right back out in the same groups. But we still won’t have a winner until some time Monday.