In case you weren’t paying attention, the weather went to shit at the US Open at Oakmont yesterday and the tournament is running behind with a wild schedule which will finish out Round 1 today and then start Round 2 this evening. The USGA, which urges pace-of-play anyway, still plans on finishing the tournament on-time if everything moves along at a decent pace, but not if Jason Day and his pre-shot Samuri ritual and Jordan Spieth and his deep, probbing conversations with caddie Michael Greller have anything to say about it.

Anyway, the weather was bad enough. But things were further complicated yesterday when lightning BLEW THE SPRINKLER SYSTEM. Here’s course guru Gil Hanse speaking to Holly Sonders, who sets your screen on fire:

“While we were watching a lot of what was going on on the surface with the rain and the bunkers, there was actually a lot of excitement going on underground. A lightning strike hit a tree adjacent to the 17th green, traveled through the ground, hit the cabling and the wiring in the irrigation system, winds up blowing the irrigation system out of the ground on 17 and in front of the driving range. So, John Zimmer the superintendent and his right hand man Dave Dellsandro(sp?) were watching the radar and all of a sudden the flow meter starting spinning out of control and they were wondering, ‘Where’s the water going?'”

A live look at 17:

The best part of the interview came at the end, though, when Hanse explained how the superintendent wanted some big shot to come and thank the crew in-person for all their long, hard work, but all they really wanted was Holly and her sweet, sweet… golf musings:

Make their Jason Day, Holly. Make their day.