2015 BMW Championship: Tee times, pairings for Friday’s round in Chicago

After a week off, the PGA Tour returned Thursday with the BMW Championship and one of the more exciting stretches of the season came to an abrupt halt when menacing skies moved in to the Chicago area. The horn blew late in the first round and brought an immediate end to the day’s play, with players not even getting a chance to finish the hole they were on at the time.

That included Jason Day, Rickie Fowler, and Jordan Spieth, the headline group of the entire event that was putting on a show throughout the afternoon. Day will return to his 18th fairway after blasting a drive just before the horn sounded. If he holes out (unlikely, I know), he will become the 7th player in PGA Tour history to break 60. A birdie will put him right at 60 and in what would certainly be a significant multi-shot lead at 11-under (the next closest right now is 6-under). Day’s unconscious run continued with a string of darts into these Conway Farms greens and a hole-out eagle. Given his form since mid-July, you’d have to think he’s a justifiable heavy favorite to win this week and win the entire FedExCup. A win on Sunday would make him the new No. 1 player in the world.

Sandwiched between Day’s stripe show was Jordan Spieth finally finding his game after two miserable FedExCup events. A hole-in-one, his second on the PGA Tour, pushed him into the red for the first time in three weeks on Tour. It came right after Day had holed out for his eagle and definitely put some juice into the afternoon before the storm moved in. Fowler, who still has to hit his tee shot on their final hole, is also under-par and pulled off a little magic of his own during that Thursday afternoon run, using Spieth’s ball to ricochet his own just a foot from the cup.

Spieth, Fowler, and Day will head back out there at 8:30 a.m. ET for the resumption of the first round. The last group of the day has just six holes left, so there’s only about an hour left in that round. With more storms in the forecast, the Tour made the decision to then bump the second round up a few hours from its originally scheduled Friday afternoon slot. So the second round will quickly pick up right after that first round restart, with tee times beginning at 10 a.m. ET, more than two hours earlier than originally planned. That marquee trio will now go off No. 1 at 11:39 a.m. ET.

With just 69 players in the field of this third FedExCup event, the Tour does have some flexibility and wiggle room compared to the 130 or 150-man pre-cut field they would normally be dealing with on a Friday. So even if there are more storms, there was never going to be a cut at this event and all 69 players are booked for the weekend. Pushing up the second round should also move things along.

Here’s the updated new tee sheet for the second round: