The wind is almost always a factor at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. This week, it could become the story.
After a week off, the PGA Tour returns Thursday at Port Royal Golf Course in Southampton, Bermuda, for the second of four straight international stops during the FedEx Cup Fall.
And if the forecast holds, players will have their hands full, particularly this weekend.
Thursday’s opening round calls for winds of 15-20 mph with gusts of 20-25 mph. Conditions are expected to calm slightly Friday, with winds of 12-17 mph and gusts reaching 18-22 mph, although the chance of rain increases from 20 percent to 60 percent.
Then comes the weekend. Saturday’s forecast calls for sustained winds of 20-25 mph and gusts reaching 25-30 mph, along with a 70 percent chance of rain early.
Sunday could be downright nasty.
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Tropical Weather Outlook
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The final-round forecast calls for winds of 23-28 mph with gusts of 30-35 mph. There’s also a 50 percent chance of rain early, increasing to 80 percent later in the day.
If that sounds familiar, it should.
Adam Schenk had to deal with even stronger winds when he won here a year ago, with sustained winds around 30 mph and gusts reaching 45 during the final round.
Schenk’s creativity was on full display down the stretch. He hit a layup on the par-5 17th that barely got 3 feet off the ground, flighted wedges downwind and played saucy chips back into the breeze when he found himself out of position.
At times, Schenk contorted his body and wrists to manipulate the golf ball around Port Royal, doing whatever was necessary to get it close to the hole. With his first PGA Tour victory hanging in the balance and plenty of others crumbling around him, Schenk found a way to get it done.
This year’s forecast could produce more of the same, even at a golf course that measures 6,828 yards, shortest on the PGA Tour.
Schenk returns to defend his title, while Austin Lemieux, the son of hockey great Mario Lemieux, will make his PGA Tour debut after shooting 66 in a Monday qualifier in Florida.
Willie Mack III is also in the field along with amateurs Kihei Akina, 17-year-old Miles Russell and Nixon Lauritzen. Lauritzen earned his exemption by winning the Golfweek National Golf Invitational in May.
Tim Schmitt is the managing editor of Golfweek and the golf coordinator for the USA Today Network.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Butterfield Bermuda Championship weather: Wind gusts could make for wild Sunday