:00:34. > :00:41.particularly challenging day here at the home of golf. After such benign
:00:41. > :00:45.conditions on the opening day, The Old Course has bitten back with some
:00:45. > :00:51.venom. We have high winds swirling across the old grey town, and play
:00:51. > :00:56.on the third day has been postponed until at least 4pm. 30 to 40 mph
:00:56. > :00:59.gusts sweeping in from the West Coast, and we understand that there
:00:59. > :01:03.are deals force conditions. For the second year in a row, this great
:01:03. > :01:08.Championship is at a temporary standstill. I am afraid that we are
:01:08. > :01:15.playing a waiting game here. It is a great shame, of course, for such a
:01:15. > :01:20.wonderful Championship. They did get underway at 7:50am this morning, and
:01:20. > :01:26.the hooter sounded at around 12:30pm. That was some 50 minutes
:01:26. > :01:30.before the leading pairings were due to tee off. We just got the word for
:01:30. > :01:36.4pm, that there will be no play. You have heard by the wind conditions
:01:36. > :01:41.but what is in front of us? Andrew Cotter is with a man who was in the
:01:41. > :01:46.know about such matters. I am with some beasties that do not mind the
:01:46. > :01:50.weather. We're here by the first green and we have Mike McClellan,
:01:50. > :01:54.the man in the know. The on-site meteorologist, you
:01:54. > :02:02.predicted this. Congratulations. Importantly, what will this do later
:02:02. > :02:07.on? Will the wind subsite? We have had an average wind of 26 mph, and
:02:07. > :02:13.we are at the peak at the moment. Between 3:30pm and 4pm, slowly, and
:02:13. > :02:18.I mean slowly, it will creep down. Hopefully we will get below the
:02:18. > :02:22.threshold and get back out to play. You are looking for a five miles per
:02:22. > :02:29.hour drop in wind? I suppose it will be like until 9:30pm. I think maybe
:02:29. > :02:33.we could play until 9pm. The official sunset is after nine
:02:33. > :02:38.o'clock but with some cloud cover, it makes it difficult. Hopefully we
:02:38. > :02:43.will get out there. Tomorrow? It will not be much better. Breezy but
:02:43. > :02:47.playable. There is golf taking place at St Andrews, that is the
:02:47. > :02:51.Championship. He is the leader and we will bring you up-to-date with
:02:51. > :02:56.his round as he progresses. But we hope to have some golf played in the
:02:56. > :03:01.main event later on. That is a low centre of gravity, which helps in
:03:01. > :03:07.this weather. That is the Himalayas putting green. This is a future
:03:07. > :03:12.champion if he can keep his balance. Good on you. Nowhere is this fine
:03:12. > :03:16.golf course more exposed than at the far end of the links out by the
:03:16. > :03:21.river estuary. Ken is out there now. It is hardly a garden are beaten
:03:21. > :03:26.right now. -- eight Garden of Eden. It is
:03:26. > :03:31.horrendous. Look at the flight here, almost bending double. To give
:03:31. > :03:38.you a idea of how breezy it is, this area levelled out -- was levelled
:03:38. > :03:43.out to be more playable. If you put a ball down here and put my hand
:03:43. > :03:52.there. If a lift my hand up, you can see it moving and off she goes. I
:03:52. > :03:56.feel like Paul Daniels. So, it really is breezy. The courses
:03:56. > :04:01.unplayable these conditions. There is no way even get the ball to stop.
:04:01. > :04:08.There are some markers from whoever is playing. They will be in the
:04:08. > :04:12.clubhouse now. If you put your ball down, it would definitely blow away.
:04:12. > :04:18.Seven, eight, nine, ten, 11, impossible to play golf. Fingers
:04:18. > :04:26.crossed the wind will die down, but if you were playing here, you'd
:04:26. > :04:28.should 100. Part is nowhere near 72 right now. Let assure you the look
:04:28. > :04:36.of the leaderboard before this play was suspended.
:04:36. > :04:40.They out there from 780 -- 7:50am. This is how it is at the halfway
:04:40. > :04:48.stage. We had a Korean at the top of the field at halfway but not the one
:04:48. > :04:58.who started the week. It was 19 and try, the U.S. Open champion, with
:04:58. > :05:10.
:05:10. > :05:15.Park, she was one of only two Mac women under Park -- underpar this
:05:15. > :05:20.morning. She was moving to 3-under for the Championship. That still
:05:20. > :05:23.seven shots behind the leader. Trying to become the first
:05:23. > :05:31.professional golfer, male or female, to win four Major titles in the same
:05:32. > :05:37.year. In truth, the real pars around this course this morning, nowhere
:05:37. > :05:43.near 72 as I said. The best completed round before the hooter
:05:43. > :05:49.went off was that 75 from Lydia Ko. What a remarkable golfer. She's only
:05:49. > :05:57.16. And this is her 22nd professional tournament. She and
:05:57. > :06:02.Cristie Kerr, a double Major Cristie Kerr, a double Major
:06:02. > :06:05.winner, that is the best of the lot. It is not president it -- not
:06:05. > :06:10.unprecedented here in Saint Andrews. You may remember three
:06:10. > :06:15.years ago we had a 40 minute suspension on the second day. And,
:06:15. > :06:21.unfortunately, we had a whole day's play lost to high winds last year at
:06:21. > :06:25.Royal Liverpool. 36 holes to be completed on Sunday. So what is the
:06:25. > :06:32.likely shape of this particular Championship? Let's find out. Andrew
:06:32. > :06:39.is just behind me somewhere, on the bridge itself.
:06:39. > :06:44.Have here Susan Simpson, who is the most worried woman in St Andrews.
:06:44. > :06:49.But she always has a smile. She is the director of golf operations.
:06:49. > :06:54.What are the plans and what is the best case and worst-case scenario?
:06:54. > :06:58.According to the meteorologist, hopefully the wind will die down.
:06:58. > :07:03.Around about 4:30pm. At the moment, we have made an announcement to the
:07:03. > :07:07.players that we will not play now until 4pm. The next announcement
:07:07. > :07:12.will be at 3:30pm and we will give them an update on the situation. But
:07:12. > :07:19.we cannot start playing golf until 4pm. You going to have to zip around
:07:19. > :07:23.to get through until -- before the light goes. Hopefully if we get a
:07:23. > :07:29.nice night, we will get a lot of play in. Fortunately, we have made
:07:29. > :07:34.the cut. We do not have 144 players to work with. If we start early,
:07:34. > :07:40.hopefully we can play four rounds. But you want to get the third round
:07:40. > :07:44.finished, obviously. We would all sleep well tonight. We will have to
:07:44. > :07:48.wait and see. I am providing a wind break year for Susan. I would love
:07:48. > :07:58.to play the 18th Redknapp. But, again, we live in hope. We expect
:07:58. > :08:01.
:08:01. > :08:05.some play before five o'clock. It is a great shape -- shame. Such a big
:08:05. > :08:08.day for women's golf, spoiled by weather conditions. I don't know
:08:08. > :08:18.what the women have done to deserve it. When I was playing all those
:08:18. > :08:21.years ago, is used to have a little mantra, we unite to drum up an
:08:21. > :08:25.appetite for the condition during interface. If you went out with
:08:25. > :08:27.dread in the pit of your stomach, you would not do well. You had to
:08:27. > :08:32.have acceptability, acceptance of what happened to your shots out
:08:32. > :08:36.there, and most importantly, adaptability. If you think you're
:08:36. > :08:42.going to go out and play your normal game in this, you have another think
:08:42. > :08:50.coming. Which makes the 75 shot by Lydia Ko and Cristie Kerr extremely
:08:50. > :08:53.laudable today. The best round is Anna Nordqvist of Sweden. 1-under.
:08:53. > :09:00.It was interesting to hear the weatherman say it would be a gradual
:09:00. > :09:04.decline. Very tough conditions in those last three holes, but knowing
:09:04. > :09:07.that conditions are improving. That is an extraordinary round in the
:09:07. > :09:14.making and hope she can finish it off. briefly, in terms of the
:09:14. > :09:18.leader, we have a difficult situation now at the top of this
:09:18. > :09:28.Championship. Is it a matter of trying to protect that lead that now
:09:28. > :09:31.
:09:31. > :09:36.June Choi has? We saw how quickly things changed yesterday. It can
:09:36. > :09:39.change in an instant. There is nothing to protect yet. We will look
:09:39. > :09:43.forward to getting some play a round about four o'clock but we will keep
:09:43. > :09:48.you posted on that. In the meantime, from us all here, well, we're