There was a three-hour and 11 minute delay to resume the final round on Monday, which pushed back the start time to 11:11 a.m. There were 1.45 inches of rain during Sunday's round and 4.8 inches overnight. Play was halted at 11:17 due to the unplayable conditions caused by more rain in the area. Play resumed at 12:20 p.m. after a one hour and four-minute delay. The horn blew for a second time at 1:43 p.m., suspending play. Rain persisted for the rest of the day, and the round was eventually called for the day at 5:00 p.m. Play will resume at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday morning with six players left to complete their final rounds. •This marks the first time a tournament will be completed past Monday during the 2006 PGA TOUR season and the first on TOUR since the 1980 Tucson Open won by Jim Colbert. •Ben Curtis only has two blemishes on his card for the week, a bogey on the 13th hole during his first round and a double bogey on the 12th hole during his final round. He has a 28-foot par putt on the 17th hole to make a par and keep his bogey or worse totals to just two for the week. •Padraig Harrington, the highest-ranked player in the field, jumped eight spots to put himself into position to finish T2. This would be his second straight top-10 finish after a fifth at the U.S. Open. •Jeff Gove missed a 10-foot putt for par on the 18th hole to potentially drop from a T2 to a T6. The missed putt could cost Gove $163,000. Gove's T6 would be his best career finish on the PGA TOUR, topping a T7 at the 2006 Honda Classic. His two top 10's in 14 starts this season would be more than he had in his first 64 starts on TOUR. •Former University of Maryland Men's golf coach Fred Funk, is looking to win the battle between the two local favorites currently T27, while Frederick's Donnie Hammond is T46. •Robert Allenby had an interesting front-nine on Sunday during his final round. After a double-bogey on the par-4 fourth hole he recorded back-to-back eagles, the first player to do so this year on TOUR. Allenby had four eagles total for the week, leaving him one shy of the TOUR record of five in a 72-hole tournament held by Davis Love III (1994 United Airlines Hawaiian Open) and Dave Eichelberger (1980 Hawaiian Open). •It took six months but the first back-to-back eagle of the season was recorded by Robert Allenby on Sunday. On Monday, Craig Barlow then went on to duplicate the feat with back-to-back eagles of his own on the exact same holes Allenby scored his eagles. This is the second time this year that four different players recorded two eagles in the same round. The only other tournament to feature this rare feat was the 2006 Bob Hope Chrysler Classic --Alex Cejka, Steven Bowditch, Will Mackenzie and Fred Couples. •1996 champion Steve Stricker, celebrating the 10th anniversary of his first PGA TOUR victory here at the TPC Avenel, is in position to finish T2. He can post his third top-10 in 12 starts at the tournament (win-1996, T4-1998). His finish can gave him back-to-back top-10s (T6-U.S. Open) for the first time on TOUR since his win at the 2001 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship and a T7 at the Phoenix Open. |
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