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The New York metropolitan region has been blessed with an incredibly comfortable eight-week stretch of weather to close out the summer and welcome the fall. Temperatures have hovered the 70s and low 80s, and with low humidity and little rain, making it a golfer’s paradise. This includes the area in and round Long Island’s Bethpage State Park, where locals have enjoyed dry conditions seven out of the last eight weekends in their last chances to play the Black Course before it hosts this week’s Ryder Cup
But if the weather forecast for the upcoming week is anywhere near accurate, that run of good luck is about to end this week, just in time, unfortunately, for the most anticipated golf event in recent memory.
Rain has been through already, and more is coming. It’s looking at sticking to 70 percent on Thursday with thunderstorms also a possibility.
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OK, so practice rounds might get a bit soggy. What about the actually three days of competition?
Well, the opening tee shot looks like it might be hit through rain drops with morning showers predicted, including a possible isolated thunderstorm.
Thankfully, things start getting better in the afternoon and improve for Saturday and Sunday where the probability of rain drops to 30 and 20 percent. And the total accumulated rain anticipated to fall for the week looks to be about an 1½ inches, a seemingly reasonable amount for the Bethpage grounds crew.
The good news about the forecast is that temperatures aren’t expected to climb higher than 78 degrees all week with lows in the low 60s.
Sadly, fans who have attended big golf events at Bethpage Black have had to deal with rain in the past. Wet weather caused delays when the course hosted the 2002 U.S. Open and forced the final round to roll into Monday during the 2009 U.S. Open played on the municipal course.
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