Golf:Juvic Pagunsan and Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano will return tomorrow morning to complete a sudden-death play-off for a Singapore Open title that the weather seems determined to wash out.
Both men finished the dramatic final round of a tournament already reduced to 54 holes tied on 14 under par, but two attempts at a sudden-death playoff failed under the leaden and stormy skies over Sentosa Golf Club.
The entire field had completed their third rounds in a five-hour window between weather warnings but the joint leaders were only able to tee off on the par-five 18th play-off hole before the threat of thunder sent them back to the clubhouse.
After a 90-minute delay, both men returned to lay up short of the green as buggies rushed them down the sodden fairway to speed up the action, but the heavens opened once more and after two hours of non-stop rain, play was abandoned for the day.
The Monday finish, the second in a row, represents a huge disappointment for the players, organisers and fans, who had finally been rewarded for their patience after three days of frustrating breaks with a nail-biting final round.
In regulation play, Pagunsan drained a 12-foot birdie putt on the last to record a four-under 67 before overnight leader Fernandez-Castano recovered to hole a similar-length putt for par after finding water off the tee.
"It was a nice putt as I saw Gonzalo's drive was in the water," the ever-smiling Pagunsan said. "In my mind, I thought I was going to win, not in a play-off. But he made the putt also. I'm still here and will wait for a result tomorrow."
Anthony Kim (64) and Louis Oosthuizen (65) stormed up the leaderboard to finish one behind the leading pair, with New Zealand's Danny Lee, Dutchman Joost Luiten and Italy's Edoardo Molinari a further shot back in a tie for fifth place.
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