- The final round of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship was cancelled after wind topped 40 mph.
- Seamus Power and Austin Smotherman will decide the title in a sudden-death playoff on Monday.
- The playoff is scheduled for 8 a.m. ET (9 a.m. local time) weather permitting.
Nobody hit a shot at Port Royal on Sunday. Gusts topped 40 mph in the morning, and none of the 72 players who made the cut could start the final round. Hours later officials cancelled play for the day. With Monday’s forecast just as bad, they declared the Butterfield Bermuda Championship a 54-hole tournament.
That leaves Seamus Power and Austin Smotherman, level at 16-under 197, to settle it in sudden death. They are due back at 8 a.m. ET on Monday, 9 a.m. local time, with the playoff starting at the par-3 16th, weather permitting.
Back to the 16th
Monday finishes are rare on the PGA Tour. The last was at the Travelers Championship in June, when Viktor Hovland beat world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler on the first extra hole after a rain delay. The last Tour event cut to 54 holes was the 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, which finished on a Saturday.
Both players are entered in the VidantaWorld Mexico Open in Vallarta next week, and a charter plane was due in Bermuda to fly the rest of the field to Mexico.
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Power’s card on the line
Power has more to gain. He arrived at No. 103 in the FedExCup Fall standings, outside the top 100 who keep full status for 2027. A win would secure his card through 2028 and put him in the Championship Series, the top tier of the PGA Tour’s new two-tier structure that starts that year.
He finished last season at No. 114 and still got into most events, though not the Signature Events. On Friday he explained why that was not enough.
“But it was the unknowns,” he said. “Not knowing where I was going to get in and when I was going to get in was the tough part. Trying to get back into that top 100, get yourself back to full status, I just feel like you’re in a better more comfortable spot starting off in January. So like that’s going to be the big goal.”
The Irishman won this event in 2022, the only other time he has held a 54-hole lead on Tour. Victory on Monday would make him Bermuda’s first multiple winner and give him a third PGA Tour title, in his 237th start, at the age of 39.
Smotherman chasing back-to-back wins
Smotherman, 32, won his first PGA Tour title at the Bank of Utah Championship earlier this month, in his 100th start. That brought a two-year exemption. A second win would earn him a place in next year’s US Open and make him the season’s eighth multiple winner. He would also be the first player to win back-to-back starts on Tour since Matt Fitzpatrick took the RBC Heritage and the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.
This is the third time this season Smotherman has led or co-led after 54 holes, after Utah and the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches, where he tied second.
This is the third year running that two players shared the 54-hole lead in Bermuda. Three 54-hole leaders or co-leaders have gone on to win here: Power in 2022, Rafael Campos in 2024 and Adam Schenk in 2025. Whoever wins on Monday will be the fourth.
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