Fans were kept from entering The Players Championship early Saturday morning after a shooting at a local drug store left two people dead.
The gates were originally scheduled to open at 7:30 am, but as a precautionary measure, they instead opened at 9 am, with the opening of hospitality areas delayed until 11 a.m. Third-round play at TPC Sawgrass went on as scheduled.
The shooting occurred in the parking lot of Walgreens on Friday at about 10:30 pm. The store is just across the street from the PGA Tour Global Home office, which abuts the course in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.
According to media reports, the suspect ran onto the TPC Sawgrass course and encountered employees there before he fled the area. He allegedly later stole a BMW and headed north before being captured around 8 am near the Florida-Georgia border in Nassau County, about an hour north of TPC Sawgrass.