Golf:England's Brian Davis had a share of the lead alongside Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa on 11 under at the end of day two of the Shell Houston Open but 70 players, including Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell, are yet to finish their second rounds because of bad weather on day one.
Darren Clarke did get to finish his second round but is in danger of missing the cut on one under, while Pádraig Harrington will also be anxious on two under.
Though he has nine to play, McDowell is best place of the Irish on four under after birdies on seven and eight last night saw him reach the turn in 34.
Davis produced a blemish-free seven-under round of 65 to take his place at the top of the leaderboard. He was joined by Oosthuizen, who also went round without dropping a shot in his six-under 66.
American Jeff Maggert, though, was four under through 10 for a 10-under total when the players were forced off by bad light, and just a shot further back was another American, James Driscoll, who was four under for his round having played just seven.
Driscoll was in a group of five players on nine under which also contained England's Greg Owen and America's Phil Mickelson.
Thursday's rain had cleared by the time play got under way on Friday, but because of damp fairways the players were allowed to lift, clean and place their balls in the fairways.
"It was a good day at the office today," Davis, who has never won on the PGA Tour, told the Tour website. "It was tougher this morning because we didn't have ball in hand to start the round and we had the rain yesterday. This morning was pretty tough. The ball was flying everywhere. We got the ball in hand this afternoon, you know, [and] got a flag to go at."
Mickelson, meanwhile, was pleased with his position heading into the weekend.
"I played really well," he said. "I didn't quite take advantage of the opportunities that I did in the [first] round where I hit a lot of good shots close. Ten, 12, 15-footers I made in the first round, I caught lips in the second.
"There was a lot of good things to build on heading into the weekend. I feel really good about where my game is at. I'll be able to shoot a little bit lower score than I did this afternoon."
Latest second-round scores & totals in the USPGA Tour Shell Houston Open, Redstone GC Tournament Course, Humble, Texas, United States of America
Note: Round 2 Suspended due to darkness. Play will resume Saturday at 7:30am local time
(USA unless stated, Irish in bold, par 72):
133Brian Davis (Eng) 68 65, Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa) 67 66
135Phil Mickelson 65 70, J.B. Holmes 68 67, Greg Owen (Eng) 66 69, Tommy Gainey 68 67
136John Huh (Kor) 66 70, Jonas Blixt (Swe) 70 66
137Kyle Reifers 68 69, John Senden (Aus) 72 65, Brandt Jobe 68 69, Harris English 69 68, Henrik Stenson (Swe) 69 68
138Erik Compton 71 67, Hunter Haas 73 65, Blake Adams 67 71
139Jeff Overton 69 70, Lucas Glover 73 66, Ernie Els (Rsa) 70 69, Tommy Biershenk 72 67, Cameron Tringale 69 70
140Bryce Molder 70 70, Brendon De Jonge 70 70, Bill Lunde 69 71, Robert Allenby (Aus) 72 68, Joe Ogilvie 71 69, Roberto Castro 71 69, Fred Couples 67 73
141Kris Blanks 69 72, Daniel Summerhays 72 69, Jason Bohn 69 72, Mark Anderson 71 70
142Rodney Pampling (Aus) 73 69, Shawn Stefani 71 71, Charley Hoffman 74 68, Kyle Stanley 73 69, Tim Herron 74 68, Colt Knost 69 73, William McGirt 70 72, Kevin Stadler 73 69, Ted Potter, Jr. 74 68, Duffy Waldorf 71 71, Mathew Goggin (Aus) 70 72, Jimmy Walker 72 70, Troy Matteson 73 69, Pádraig Harrington (Irl) 69 73
143Martin Flores 72 71, Charl Schwartzel (Rsa) 69 74, Arjun Atwal (Ind) 73 70, Richard H. Lee 70 73, Camilo Villegas (Col) 71 72, Darren Clarke (NIrl) 72 71, Russell Knox (Sco) 72 71, D.J. Trahan 74 69
144Peter Hanson (Swe) 71 73, Bobby Gates 74 70, Gavin Coles (Aus) 72 72, Tom Pernice Jnr. 74 70, Heath Slocum 74 70
145David Hearn (Can) 71 74, Ben Curtis 71 74, Kevin Kisner 72 73
146Aaron Baddeley (Aus) 74 72, J J Henry 73 73, John Rollins 75 71, Ryuji Imada (Jpn) 71 75, J.J Killeen 75 71
148Harrison Frazar 72 76
154Billy Hurley III 72 82
160Lonny Alexander 82 78
