Mother Nature looming throughout play at 49th Palmetto Amateur

Jul. 25—As Loyola Marymount's Alejandro Alonso stood over his tee shot on the 18th hole, a boom of thunder loudly announced the worst-kept secret at the 49th Palmetto Amateur. Mother Nature wields an awful lot of influence over how this golf tournament will finish — maybe not who wins, but when it's won. So it's not really a secret, given that it is this part of the country and it is this time ...