{"id":813869,"date":"2026-10-25T23:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T23:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813869\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T23:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T23:00:09","slug":"seamus-power-set-for-monday-sudden-death-playoff-with-austin-smotherman-in-bermuda-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813869\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u00e9amus Power set for Monday sudden-death playoff with Austin Smotherman in Bermuda \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ireland\u2019s S\u00e9amus Power will face American Austin Smotherman in a Monday playoff for the Butterfield Bermuda Championship after play was scrapped on Sunday due to inclement weather and the \u200bPGA Tour shortened regulation play to 54 holes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Power, who won the second of his two PGA Tour titles in Bermuda in 2022, will take on Smotherman in a sudden-death playoff that is scheduled to start at 9am local time on Monday morning (noon in Ireland). Smotherman secured his first PGA Tour win at the Bank of Utah Championships at the start of October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Golfers waited for word from the tour after it was decided \u200bearly on Sunday that the entire fourth round would be \u2060postponed due to heavy rain and high winds that topped 40mph on Sunday morning. The \u200cnext \u200bupdate came at 5.17pm local time at Port Royal Golf \u2060Course in Southampton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cDue \u200bto the unfavorable weather \u200bforecast for Monday at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship \u200cand the uncertainty surrounding the \u200bcompletion of the entire final round on Monday, \u2060the tournament results \u2060will \u200bbe considered final through 54 holes in accordance with PGA Tour regulations,\u201d the tour said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Power and Smotherman \u200bwere tied at \u200b16-under-par 197 after three rounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s S\u00e9amus Power will face American Austin Smotherman in a Monday playoff for the Butterfield Bermuda Championship after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,8693,102134,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-813869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-pga-tour","tag-seamus-power","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}