The Wentworth PGA Championship continues on Saturday

The PGA Championship of golf, disputed in the English club of Wentworthwill resume this Saturday after the day was suspended this Friday as a sign of mourning for the death of the queen Elizabeth IIaccording to the organization.

“The decision to restart the tournament on Saturday was made in accordance with official national mourning guidelines and in consultation with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS),” the organization said in a statement.

The second round of the PGA Championship will resume on Saturday from 6:40 am -local time- and the first scheduled start times for the second day which was due to be played this Friday will be maintained.

The thirty-four players who did not complete the first day, who played on Thursday and were delayed by the death of Queen Elizabeth II, will begin their performance at 7:30 from the place on the golf course where they stopped on Thursday for the afternoon .

The suspension of the day this Friday will force a reduction in the total number of holes to be played in the championship, which from the 72 originally planned will be a total of 54 due to the impossibility of delaying the end of the championship on Monday, given the impossibility that “ensure staff, facilities, or security are in place on Monday due to ongoing plans for a state funeral.”

Norway’s Viktor Hovland and England’s Toomy Fleetwood and Andy Sullivan make up the trio of early interim leaders. The three signed cards of 64 strokes (8 under par) to assume the first order.

They led another Englishman, Matthew Jordan, in one impact, and by two the quarterback consisting of Irishman Shane Lowry, Australian Jason Scrivener, Englishman Marcus Armitage and Paraguayan Fabrizio Zanotti.