Play was suspended due to high winds when Louis Oosthuizen won the last Open staged at St Andrews in 2010, but the South African never experienced anything like what happened during his second round on Saturday.
Oosthuizen was facing a par putt from two feet on the 13th green after play had resumed at 7am following Friday's rain delay, but saw it moved not once, but twice, by winds gusting up to 45 miles per hour.
The ball eventually came to rest six feet from the hole before play was suspended for ten and a half hours, but Oosthuizen holed it when play resumed at 6pm and completed a 70 to finish seven under, just three behind leader Dustin Johnson.
"Got lucky, then unlucky," the 32 year old wrote on Twitter during the suspension. "My golf ball was first blown closer to 1 foot from the hole, then further to 6 feet without me striking it at all!"
The delay prompted the R&A to extend the Championship into Monday for the second time ever and Oosthuizen added: "I think the weather looks pretty good tomorrow and Monday, so yeah, just looking forward to playing this golf course again.
"It's the Open, I'll stay until it's done."
