The Idlewild Social Media Storm

When the round gets delayed for lightning the phones come out

July 21, 2018 by Bennett Wineka in Coverage with 0 comments

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:

Welcome to day one of the 2018 Idlewild Open presented by @innovadiscs. Let's just say this stop on the @discgolfprotour is umm, delayed until further notice. All Pro Women were able to complete their round. Barely. More to come once we know more. #DiscGolfMedia #DiscLife #GrowTheSport

A post shared by Terry D Miller (@thediscgolfguy) on Jul 20, 2018 at 1:04pm PDT

Paul McBeth:

#Delayed

A post shared by Paul McBeth (@paul_mcbeth) on Jul 20, 2018 at 11:33am PDT

Peter McBride:

Mid round tornado warning. Uh oh.

A post shared by Peter McBride (@peter_m805) on Jul 20, 2018 at 11:52am PDT

A.J. Risley featured prominently in Jomez Productions’ documentation of the storm:

Weather Delay at the Idlewild Open ⛈ @rizbeejr is here to bring you the latest on the situation. The storm rolled in very quickly and got so dark that our cameras could hardly keep up! We're waiting it out to see what the @discgolfprotour decides to do #discgolf #jomezpro #thunderstorm

A post shared by Jomez Productions (@jomezpro) on Jul 20, 2018 at 11:53am PDT

Dixon Jowers showed us some victims of the storm:

@jamshelton:

Big storm rolls in

A post shared by @ jamshelton on Jul 20, 2018 at 4:10pm PDT

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:

Tyler Schrock:

Midway through the round: 2 great holes, 2 tough holes and a great card. Significant rain/storm delay for now. #discgolf #teammvp #throwgyro

A post shared by Tyler Schrock (@schrockdg) on Jul 20, 2018 at 11:59am PDT

Jared Stoll:

Round 1 of Idlewild has been delayed, with no official restart posted… I was lucky enough to be standing on Hole 1s tee pad when they called it… #under54discgolf #poweredbyprodigy #discgolf #dgpt

A post shared by Jared Stoll (@bombcitystoll54) on Jul 20, 2018 at 11:52am PDT

Alex Russell:

Things got a little crazy today out here at Idlewild…day 1 of 3 let's see how tomorrow goes.

A post shared by Alex Russell (@arussell66362) on Jul 20, 2018 at 5:06pm PDT

Sara Lamberson:

Glad @dream_0112 and I skidaddled from the course before the apocalypse happened!

A post shared by Sara Lamberson (@saralambo) on Jul 20, 2018 at 1:41pm PDT

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