The first round of the 2023 PGA Championship was delayed 1 hour, 50 minutes due to a frost delay at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, N.Y.
The first starting time was pushed back from 7 a.m. ET to 8:50 a.m., and the final threesome will now go off at 4:32 p.m., making it highly unlikely every player completes their first round on Thursday. Players were already scheduled to start on both tees.
The frost, however, was not unexpected. According to Kerry Haigh, the PGA of America’s chief championships officer, there were a couple of frosts in the area last week, one on Tuesday and they anticipated this one coming on Thursday.
“Well, May in Rochester, May wherever the championship is appears as though it will bring some more variety to the weather than we’re used to having when we played in August,” Haigh said on Tuesday. “… If it does [frost], we’ll adapt. The wind right now, we’ve got different direction winds, northeast I think day one and warming up, chance of rain on Saturday and hopefully clear on Sunday. That’s sort of the fun of golf. It’s an outdoor game, and we can’t wait to see what Mother Nature brings, as well.”
Temps will be in the mid to high 40s for the first tee time at 8:50 a.m. Thursday, with it warming up into the 60s in the afternoon.
Updated tee times, along with the TV schedule and streaming times, can be viewed here.
