{"id":1489,"date":"2013-06-13T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/first-round-suspended-at-u-s-open\/"},"modified":"2013-10-30T21:03:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T21:03:56","slug":"first-round-suspended-at-u-s-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/first-round-suspended-at-u-s-open\/","title":{"rendered":"First round suspended at U.S. Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ardmore, PA (Sports Network) &#8211; The first round of the U.S. Open at Merion Golf Club was suspended due to threatening weather on Thursday at 8:36 a.m. (ET).<\/p>\n<p>The suspension was not a surprise as a line of strong storms was expected this morning. There is more severe weather forecast later in the day as well.<\/p>\n<p>Officials hope to resume play at 12:10 p.m. The second wave of players will have their tee times delayed three hours, 34 minutes. Sunset is slated for around 8:30 p.m. Play will continue as late as possible, if a later wave of storms stays clear of the area.<\/p>\n<p>Tiger Woods and his playing partners are now scheduled for 4:48 p.m. with the final group slated for 6:31 p.m. off the 11th tee.<\/p>\n<p>England&#8217;s Ian Poulter had birdied his first three holes &#8211; Nos. 11, 12 and 13 &#8211; to grab an early 1-stroke lead over Nicolas Colsaerts, Charl Schwartzel, Tim Clark and Charley Hoffman.<\/p>\n<p>Americans Dustin Johnson and Steve Stricker were among six players tied at minus-1.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Mickelson was among a group of players at even-par. The five-time U.S. Open runner-up flew back overnight from his daughters 8th grade graduation and arrived at the course about 90 minutes before his scheduled 7:11 a.m. tee time.<\/p>\n<p>Mickelson bogeyed his opening hole, No. 11, but came back with a birdie on the short par-3 13th.<\/p>\n<p>Cliff Kresge, who hit the opening tee shot of the 113th U.S. Open, was 4-over through six holes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ardmore, PA (Sports Network) &#8211; The first round of the U.S. Open at Merion Golf Club was suspended due to threatening weather on Thursday at 8:36 a.m. (ET). The suspension was not a surprise as a line of strong storms was expected this morning. There is more severe weather forecast later in the day as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1525,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions\/1525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}