Rain and lightning storms delay US boys' 

championship

BLUFFTON, South Carolina – Brendan O’Reilly, 16, of Hinsdale, Illinois, carded a 3-under-par 69 Tuesday for a boys' championship at the par-72, 7,336-yard Colleton River Plantation Club’s Dye Course.

Play was suspended at 8:27 p.m. EDT due to darkness with half of the 156-player field still on the course, including first-round leaders Victor Hovland, 17, of Norway, and Won Jun Lee, 17, of South Korea.

The championship was delayed twice in the afternoon due to rain and lightning for a total of 4 hours, 51 minutes. The second round of stroke play is scheduled to resume on Wednesday morning at 7:30 a.m., with the first round of match play to follow.

LEADING COMPLETED TOTALS

+78 players still to complete second round

Brendan O'Reilly, Hinsdale, Ill. - 71-69--140
Reese Ramsey, Austin, Texas - 71-70--141
Wells Padgett, Wichita, Kan. - 72-70--142
Sahith Theegala, Chino Hills, Calif. - 70-72--142
Brody Blackmon, Sulphur Springs, Texas - 69-73--142
Andy Zhang, China - 72-70--142
Joshua Sedeno, Roseville, California. - 72-71--143
John Pak, Scotch Plains, New Jersey - 74-69--143
Bryan Baumgarten, Granite Bay, California. - 72-72--144
Eugene Hong, Sanford, Florida. - 72-73--145

Cooper Sears, Old Hickory, Tennessee. - 71-74--145

Philip Barbaree, Shreveport, Louisiana. - 71-74--145
Wilson Furr, Jackson, Mississippi. - 73-72--145
Matthew Ruel, Oldsmar, Floridaa. - 75-70--145

Noah Gillard, Greenwood, Indiana 73-73--146

Spencer Ralston, Gainesville, Georgia. - 74-72--146

Ivan Camilo Ramirez, Colombia - 73-73--146

Parker Coody, Plano, Texas - 73-73--146

Kaiwen Liu, China - 78-69--147

Eric Bae, Pinehurst, North Carolina 73-75--148

Logan Lowe, Grass Valley, California - 74-74--148

Cheng Jin, China - 74-74--148
Ahmed Ali, Palo Alto, California. - 74-74--148

Jake Chanen, Phoenix, Arizona. - 73-76--149

Tyler Strafaci, Davie, Florida. - 74-75--149

Thomas 'Jack' Simpson, Canada - 74-75--149

Michael Sanders, Davidson, North Carolina - 75-74--149

Matthew Wolff, Agoura Hills, California. - 74-75--149

Connor O'Brien, Rowayton, Connecticut. - 75-75--150

Will Chandler, Atlanta, Georgia. - 74-76--150

Trent Phillips, Inman, South Carolina - 78-72--150