{"id":779688,"date":"2026-07-05T02:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T02:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/779688\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T02:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T02:03:17","slug":"third-round-play-resumes-at-john-deere-classic-after-lightning-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/779688\/","title":{"rendered":"Third round play resumes at John Deere Classic after lightning delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The third round of the John Deere Classic has resumed after lightning in the Silvis, Illinois, area stopped play an hour on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Ten players were on the course when the horn blew, with the final group of Lucas Glover, Zac Blair and Lee Hodges on the 17th green. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/watch\/live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Golf Channel will carry live coverage<\/a> of the conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Blair leads the way at 16 under. He\u2019s one clear of Ben Kohles, who shot 5-under 66 in Round 3. Glover, Hodges and Jackson Suber (through 17) are also at 15 under.<\/p>\n<p>Doug Ghim shot 65 to reach 14 under while 2012 champion Zach Johnson is at 13 under after a 66. The 50-year-old Johnson, a two-time winner on the PGA Tour Champions this season, is skipping this week\u2019s U.S. Senior Open to compete in the Deere. He wrapped Moving Day by sinking a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GolfChannel\/status\/2073516841918439710?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">45-foot birdie putt on the par-4 18th<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PGATOURComms\/status\/2073371993932542306?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">start to Round 3 was also delayed<\/a> because of threatening weather. Play began at 10:12 a.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The third round of the John Deere Classic has resumed after lightning in the Silvis, Illinois, area stopped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-779688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}