The first round of the BMW Championship at Caves Valley Golf Club in Owings Mills was suspended for over two hours Thursday because of inclement weather. The delay began at 2:35 p.m. and play resumed shortly after 4:45 p.m.<\/p>\n
Inclement weather held off for much of the day, as 13 players finished their first rounds before thunderstorms rolled into the region. Viktor Hovland shot a 3-under par 67 to take the clubhouse lead while avoiding any rain.<\/p>\n
Scottie Scheffler, who leads the FedEx Cup standings entering the second leg of the three-event playoffs, was among those with golf left to play when the horn was sounded to call players inside. His round was paused through 14 holes, with the world\u2019s top-ranked player sitting at 1-under par.<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s weather forecast calls for a 40% chance of afternoon thunderstorms. Saturday and Sunday\u2019s weather forecasts call for more intense heat \u2014 Sunday\u2019s high is 93 with humidity expected to be over 60% \u2014 but the chance of rain each day is 20% or below, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n
This article will be updated. Have a news tip? Contact sports editor Bennett Conlin at bconlin@baltsun.com<\/a>, 410-332-6200 and x.com\/BennettConlin<\/a>.<\/p>\n Originally Published: August 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first round of the BMW Championship at Caves Valley Golf Club in Owings Mills was suspended for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[34273,53378,3332,99],"class_list":["post-83437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bmw-championship","tag-caves-valley","tag-pga-tour","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}