Tournament officials aim to complete 36 holes by Sunday.

Mother Nature became the story at the Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic afternoon as nearly a foot of rain fell on the Ocean Club Golf Course at Atlantis, Paradise Island between 3 p.m. and 11 p.m. on Tuesday.

The Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic has been shortened to a 54-hole event following overnight storms that dropped nearly a foot of rain on the Ocean Club Golf Course.

A world-class field will tee it up in Paradise this week at the inaugural Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic. The tournament, one of three new tournaments on the 2013 LPGA schedule, is a four-day, 72-hole stroke-play event with a $1.3 million purse and a $195,000 first-place check.

Just seven tournaments remain before the unveiling of the 2013 U.S. and European Solhiem Cup teams.