Matt Kuchar Shares the Lead with Two Holes to Play

The American trio of defending champion Matt Kuchar, Harrison Frazar Reggie Bush Jersey and William McGirt lead The Barclay's after a storm-hit, unfinished first round on Thursday.
Frazar shot first-day 7-under 64 to grab the early clubhouse lead in the opening tournament of the four-event FedEx Cup play-offs, but Kuchar, still with two holes to play with his Mizuno MP-59 Forged Individual Irons, and McGirt, who had only played 11 holes, were tied with him at 7-under when bad light ended a round delayed for more than three hours by rain and electrical storms.
Along with Kuchar and McGirt, the delay Calvin Johnson Jersey at the Plainfield Country Club in Edison, New Jersey, left a total of 51 players stranded on the course by fading light at the end of the day and what it all meant was that the leadership story might be looking different when the first round is completed early on Friday morning.
This especially as the greens are likely to be soft and vulnerable to target golf. In the meantime the US trio led by one from Fiji veteran Vijay Singh and American young gun Jonathan Byrd, Brian Urlacher Jersey who both shots 65s, and little known Chris Stroud who was tied with them at 6-under after 13 holes. The in-form Adam Scott of Australia was lurking two shots off the pace after shooting a 5-under 66 along with Charley Hoffman and fellow-American Ryan Palmer. Padraig Harrington, after 11 holes and Justin Rose, after 16, were leading the European charge at 4-under in a log-jam of 16 players that included up-and-coming Australia Jason Day and young American hot-shot Nick Watney, who topped the FedEx Cup standings Joe Flacco Jersey coming into the event.
Frazar took himself into the lead with four birdies on the front nine and three on the back of his bogey-free round while unheralded McGirt had birdied seven of eight holes in the 11 he had played Mizuno MP-59 Forged Individual Ironsand last year's winner Kuchar had birdied six of the last seven of the 16 he had played before darkness forced them off the course.
Kuchar won The Barclays last year when it was played at Ridgewood, and McGirt was the last player Philip Rivers Jersey to qualify for the FedExCup at number 125 on the points list last week.
Afternoon starters began their rounds by Mizuno MP-59 Forged Individual Irons at Plainfield late due to a three-hour, 15-minute suspension due to lightning. And officials are worried about further delays from the storms being forecast for this weekend as Hurricane Irene approaches the East Coast of the USA. Meanwhile, players in the elite field in a series that pays a bonus of $10 million to the overall points winner, took advantage of the Sam Bradford Jersey wet conditions and soft greens with 37 of the 60 morning starters breaking par under lift-clean-and-place provisions. "The course is very soft, " said Frazar, 40, who notched his first PGA Tour win earlier this year at the St Jude's Classic. "The fairways are plugging. There was mud on the balls. The shots into the greens are just hitting with the Mizuno MP-59 Forged Individual Irons and just stopping where they are. ".