When the round gets delayed for lightning the phones come out
July 21, 2018 by Bennett Wineka in Coverage
The opening round at the Idlewild Open Friday was delayed multiple times due to a severe thunderstorm with sustained lightning, strong winds, and rain. Ultimately, round one was suspended around 6:40 p.m. just as the final Open card completed hole one. All those delays meant players and media at the event had plenty of time to take in the oncoming severe weather.
Here’s what they saw.
Terry Miller:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bld1B8ZgDfr/?hl=en&taken-by=thediscgolfguy
Paul McBeth:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BldrNulBfof/?taken-at=766267048
Peter McBride:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BldtaQNA-le/?taken-at=766267048
A.J. Risley featured prominently in Jomez Productions’ documentation of the storm:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Blds_iYjKC2/?taken-by=jomezpro
Dixon Jowers showed us some victims of the storm:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10216746726565290&set=gm.503766066741335&type=3&theater&ifg=1
@jamshelton:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BleK8QpB9aw/?taken-at=766267048
Dana Vicich jumped in with some tweets:
We were way out there, prob played 15 min too long cause we didn’t hear the horn. I’m wet.
— Dana Vicich (@DanaDiscGolf) July 20, 2018
Branch fell on a hole I was on, lots of trees were bending!
— Dana Vicich (@DanaDiscGolf) July 20, 2018
Tina Stanaitis and Eric Oakley:
https://www.facebook.com/tina.stanaitis/videos/10211287176167511/
Tyler Schrock:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BlduMozDs-6/?taken-at=766267048
Jared Stoll:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bldtc9MHdNL/?taken-at=766267048
Alex Russell:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BleRYNGjCXt/?taken-at=766267048
Sara Lamberson:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bld54oGDTyl/?taken-at=766267048
Ricky Wysocki was not in attendance, however. He was in Sweden instead. And despite the forest fires in the country in recent days, he was enjoying the calmer weather and made sure to let everyone know about it:
Ricky Wysocki Sweden -> Idlewild
