Junior PGA has 2-hour delay, Charlie Woods, Tyler Mawhinney get off to fast starts
It will be a long day for the leaders in the Junior PGA, including Tyler Mawhinney of Fleming Island, Luke Balaskiewicz of Jacksonville and Charlie Woods.
A two-hour weather delay in the morning forced a late start for everyone at the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex on the Purdue University campus in West Lafayette, Ind. Woods, the son of Tiger Woods, who was in a tie for seventh after a second-round 66 and a 36-hole total of 7-under, didn’t tee off until 3:53 p.m. and Mawhinney and Balaskiewicz, who were tied for 11th at 6-under, started a bit earlier.
Woods got off to a fast start with birdies on his first two holes. Mawhinney birdied two of his first four holes and Balaskiewicz, a Bolles graduate who will enroll at the University of North Florida in August, was 1-under on his first five holes, making two birdies after an opening bogey.
One player who is finished and likely pretty content in the locker room is Sahana Chokshi of Jacksonville, a rising junior at Episcopal. She made the cut on the 1-over number and, after a bogey on her first hole, had a clean card, with six birdies for a 66. Chokshi easily made the 54-hole cut and at 3-under 211 is tied for 15th.
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Charlie Woods, Tyler Mawhinney, Luke Balaskiewicz start late in Junior PGA
