Golf's final Major of the year, the US PGA Championship, was hit by a fog delay of more than three hours at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin.
Play had been due to begin at 7am local time, but the first tee-off time was pushed back to 10.10am because of poor visibility at the spectacular course on the edge of Lake Michigan.
First of the European contingent in the draw was Scot Stephen Gallacher, who was in the second group of the day off the first hole and was now starting at 10.20am, 4.20pm in Britain.
Compatriot Martin Laird was two groups further back and then England's Luke Donald had an original 7.40am time off the tenth tee changed to 10.50am.
The length of the delay made it touch and go whether the first round would be completed before nightfall.
Ian Poulter, another morning starter, had made an important decision on his clubs.
Poulter had practised with a new set of irons after his usual ones fell off a golf buggy and were dragged along a path.
The faces were unaffected, but because of the scuff marks at the bottom, the World Number Ten gave himself the option before the event.
"I'm going to go with the old ones. I don't like looking down at them so much now, but just know how they behave," he said.
Within 45 minutes of play getting under way the sirens sounded for it to stop again - but only for a few minutes while the fog cleared again at the short third.
Donald pitched close at the 361 yard tenth and made his putt, but by then Australian Stuart Appleby - two weeks on from his US PGA Tour record-equalling 59 at The Greenbrier - had opened with two birdies on the back nine.
Jim Furyk and Dane Søren Kjeldsen also birdied the tenth, while Gallacher parred the first two and Laird bogeyed the first.
