For all but around an hour, players, caddies, officials and fans did their best to battle the brutal conditions on day two of the 40th anniversary of the Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland.
It began raining just around noon (local time) on the three host courses – the Old Course, Kingsbarns Links and Carnoustie – before around 4.16pm when the golf courses could not take any more and sirens sounding for play to be halted.
Fore the 168-player field along with just as many amateur partners it was probably enough many holes, and particularly on the Old Course, were water-logged and became unplayable.
As well, the affects of Storm Amy were taking their toll on all either inside or outside of the competition in the $5m tournament.
Play suspended due to waterlogged courses.#DunhillLinks pic.twitter.com/al0nWAAqXq
— DP World Tour (@DPWorldTour) October 3, 2025
All had tried their best but the conditions were taking their toll including one example when double Major winning Dustin Johnson indicated his group had not heard the siren to halt play. If so, ‘DJ’ probably would not have hit his drive way right in playing the par-5 ninth hole, or the 18th of his round. Many joined in the search for his ball but to no avail and with the American having to trudge back down the fairway in the driving drain to play a lost ball penalty third shot in the course of eventually trudging off with a shock triple-bogey ‘8’.
DJ, and contesting only a third Dunhill Links, signed for a seven-over total which is a big drop after doing all the hard work a day earlier at Carnoustie in ending tied third following a sizzling 64.
This year is not the first time the Dunhill has been hit with weather-related stoppages. Indeed, the first ‘Links’ in 2001 went through to a Monday finish and won to Scot Paul Lawrie while two years the tournament was reduced to three rounds when heavy rain wiped out a day’s play and in the process turned the Carnoustie course into an inland sea.
REMEMBERING TWO YEARS AGO …
When rain sadly wreaked havoc @dunhilllinks , pushing the t’ment in being reduced to three rounds & hopefully still the only occasion since the first in 2001
And ’23 when a surfer ‘brazenly’ paddled his way under the Swilcan Bridge
#TOURMISS… pic.twitter.com/FYebOArAXz
— Fatiha (@TOURMISS) October 3, 2025
Also there was the sight in that 2023 of an individual, donned in a wetsuit and carrying a surfboard and making his way t to flooded Swincan Burn before placing the surfboard upon the Burn and proceeding to paddle his way under the famed Swilcan Bridge.
Event organisers are prepared for washed out days as Monday is traditionally a corporate day with the Old Course closed all day to ‘regular’ public play.
