Golf - Rain par for the course during major week at Bethpage

May 13, 2019; Farmingdale, NY, USA; Xander Schauffele walks on the fifth hole during a practice round for the PGA Championship golf tournament at Bethpage State Park - Black Course. Mandatory Credit: Peter Casey-USA TODAY Sports

FARMINGDALE, New York (Reuters) - Rain and the Bethpage Black Course go hand in hand when the world's best players visit so it was perhaps appropriate that the PGA Championship week started cold and soggy on a dreary Long Island Monday.

Tiger Woods, the 2002 U.S. Open champion here, was among those who braved the intermittent rain, the 15-times major champion playing nine holes in the morning in temperatures more normal for March than late spring.