PGA Championship 2016: Leaderboard, live coverage, results and more from Sunday’s final round

The final groups at the PGA Championship are getting deep into their front nine at Baltusrol and we’re being set up for a manic sprint to the finish. The course is wet and soft, allowing the best in the world to take dead aim at these pins on receptive greens. The back nine is pretty vulnerable too, with benign conditions, little wind and gettable hole locations. And then there’s those two finishing par-5s, a completely unique course feature that you never get in major championship golf and could jumble the leaderboard at the end with birdies and eagles.

The prime contenders late in the afternoon are Jimmy Walker, Henrik Stenson, Brooks Koepka, Jason Day and Branden Grace. Walker is trying to become the first wire-to-wire PGA winner since Phil Mickelson did it at this same venue in 2005. Given his uneven season and shaky statistical profile this year, you thought he might relent -- that the first or second round was an aberration and he’d fall back to the middle of the pack on the weekend. But the big hitter has kept the pedal down and stayed out in front. A wayward drive on the front nine did nothing to derail his round, and he’s opened with a spate of pars to stay at 11-under.

Adam Scott has had a rather ho-hum PGA Championship, but at least he got to high-five with caddie Steve Williams after his second shot on the par-4 eighth took one hop and dove into the hole.

Scott, who had two quick wins to kick off his 2016 PGA Tour season, was an early favorite to win his second major sometime this year, but a T18 at the U.S. Open has been his best finish in the three majors so far. After that eagle in Sunday’s finale at Baltusrol, Scott was at 2-under for his final round and 6-under for the tourney.

Saturday afternoon at Baltusrol devolved into a nightmare for the PGA. The weather horn blew at 2:15 p.m. ET calling the players off the course, and they never returned. The PGA took heat for not putting the players in groups of three and using two tees early in the morning, which would have resulted in a completed or nearly complete third round.

Instead, the leaders still had to play their entire third round and fourth round with Sunday’s forecast looking just as brutal as the washout from Saturday afternoon. Fortunately, they’ve caught a break so far with the weather. There has been some rain and it’s so soggy that they have put “preferred lies” in place at a major for the first time that anyone can remember. But there’s been no lightning so far and they have not had a suspension since that third round resumed at 7 a.m. ET on Sunday morning.

Rich Beem, in the field for a major on the weekend for the first time since 2012, is making the most of his playing time at Baltusrol and his loyal followers appreciate it.

Beem, the 2002 PGA champion, is clearly a fan fave at this year’s edition, and he reveled in the frenzy that broke out after he holed a birdie from the sidelines on the par-4 fifth of his final round.