By Roy J. Akers- www.skyviewsports.net – (Benton Harbor, Mich.)
News and Notes and they said it. – With Video
The 2024 Kitchen Aid Tournament started out with over 60 PGA Professional Qualifiers for players not on the tour. This is their big chance to showcase their skills and a chance to win big money. Only 12 are left and two Ohio pros, Bob Sowards from Dublin, Ohio and Mike Stone of Belmont CC (Toledo) are the only pros to advance.
Ernie Els is in the hunt for a PGA Sr. Crown and he talked about the weather delay that caused a 90 minute delay in round two.
Q. What was that like to be off for 90 minutes and then again get the momentum going again?
ERNIE ELS: Exactly. It was tough. I sat in my cart. I wasn’t sure. I had my own weather map out and looked
like the two storms were coming, and I guess they kind of went away a little bit. Looked like we might have been off the golf course for two, three hours. But, you know, the PGA of America, they made a good
decision getting us back into play. Seems like we’re all going to finish now. But it’s always a bit awkward when you have it going and then you have to get away for an hour and a half. So it stopped the momentum a little bit. Richard Brand is leading the PGA after 36 holes. What is the key to the round?
Richard Bland-
Q. Richard Bland with us at the 84th KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship. Richard, 66 today to get
he to 12-under. How you feeling heading into the weekend? RICHARD BLAND: Yeah, pretty good. Yeah, probably wasn’t as easy as it probably was yesterday. I kind of — I struggled you a little bit on the greens with my pace; my strike was a little off. So, yeah, I was kind of struggling to get it to the hole on a
few putts. I’ll work on that a little bit this afternoon. But, yeah, tee to green there is no issues there. But I
haven’t really had any all year, so, yeah, if I can just get the putter warmed up a little bit, then hopefully there is a couple good scores in me for the weekend.
Inclement weather moving in:
Storms on Sunday adjust schedule: Due to forecasted inclement weather on Sunday afternoon, Round 4 starting times for the 2024 KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship will be 7:15 AM – 9:38 AM on tees #1 and #10 with the leaders teeing off last on hole #1.