In the end, the four major winners each got to see exactly six holes of Port Royal Golf Course yesterday.

Torrential rain shortened yesterday's PGA Grand Slam Pro-Am to just nine holes, with Angel Cabrera, Stewart Cink, Lucas Glover and Y.E Yang seeing only first-hand a few of the 18 that they will have to contend with today.

While Cink opted to drive the holes he didn't get to play, and Yang sent his caddy out to play the back nine, Glover stopped shy of going back out in conditions he called 'the worst I have ever played in'.

Cabrera, meanwhile, may head out early this morning, but only if the weather improves.

"I wasn't able to see much," said Cabrera. "I was only able to play six holes, but it seems like a very good course, and it seems also like it is going to be a big challenge out there tomorrow for the four of us.

"With this kind of rain it is difficult to say much, but you can tell that the course has been set up very well, and the greens, the ball is running very well, so it is going to be a big test."

Cabrera is back in Bermuda for the second time, having won the first Grand Slam on the Island in 2007, and now, as then, he is focused on winning – exhibition tournament or not.

"I'm here because I want to win, otherwise I would stay back home," he said. "Maybe you can enjoy it a little bit more, but in the end when I put the ball on the first tee it's all about winning, and that's where you really care. And If I have a good round, then you are happy, and if not, then you're not so happy."

Whatever happens, all four are likely to be much happier if the rain stays away. At times yesterday it was so hard that it was impossible to see the 18th green from the clubhouse, a distance of less than 75 yards.

"It was tough out there obviously, I think that's the worst conditions I've ever played golf in," said Glover.

"The wind's going to play the biggest part, rain or not. The greens are still very firm, but the wind will be the big issue, it'll be tough and it'll be a good test, regardless.

"If it was dead calm it would be a good test because the course is so good, but the wind is going to be the main defence, it'll be fun, but a good test at the same time."

Glover avoided the 16th, stopping after 15, admitting he was too scared to take on Port Royal's signature hole, which for the next two days is a 235-yard par three.

"I checked out 16, I finished on 15 and was too scared to tell you the truth, (to play 16)," he said. "We are four pretty good players and it's hard to hit a ball 30-yards out into the ocean, and think that it's going to come back, and believe it is going to come back."

Cink, meanwhile, was equally blown away by a hole that could well decide the outcome of the Grand Slam.

"It's a fabulous hole, it was striking," he said. "It's a great hole, a tough hole too, a 230-yard shot, the wind today was just howling off the ocean, there's almost no way to keep it on the green, so I hit it way right.

"But tomorrow it'll be right to left, but it's a beautiful setting, the water colour is just stunning, astonishing, it's just beautiful."

Today's forecast is much better, and the wind is likely to lessen as the day goes on, but the PGA have still opted to keep the 517-yard seventh hole as a par-five, especially as Glover's drive on 14 yesterday struggled to travel 215 yards into the howling wind.

Today's first round begins at 10.30 a.m., and it will be the player that handles the wind the best that is likely to set the pace.

"If the holes play into the wind like they did today, then a 380-hole is a 480 hole, and if you have a little 330-hole, like at 14. I hit a nice drive and still had a 120-yard second, that's a 215 yard tee-shot.

"It's going to be interesting, but it'll be fun as well."