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Garcia & Hoch share lead

Sergio Garcia and Scott Hoch are tied at six-under par as officials suspended Friday's second round of the Buick Open due to darkness. Garcia completed 10 holes of his second round while Hoch only made it through nine.

Players will return to the West Course at Westchester Country Club at 7:00 a.m. (et) Saturday morning to complete their second rounds.

Thursday's first round was washed away because of heavy rainfall and golfers completed their first rounds on a much sunnier Friday morning.

Tiger Woods, who did not even finish his first hole Thursday, posted a four-over 75 in his first 18, his worst round of the 2001 campaign.

The world number-one struggled so much in his first round that he carded a triple-bogey, his first since the Bay Hill Invitational in March, a span of 499 holes.

At the par-four fourth, Woods drove into trees and missed the green with an eight-iron for his third shot. He three-putted from six feet for the seven.

Round two was the Tiger Woods that won four major championships in a row. He drove the green at the 314-yard 10th hole, his first of the round, where he two-putted for birdie. Woods holed a 35-foot bunker shot for birdie at 16 and then rounded out his first nine with an eight-foot birdie at 18.

Woods parred the first six on his second nine but once again used his length at the 326-yard seventh. He made birdie to get to even par for the tournament and then two-putted the ninth green for another birdie and a second-round 66.

"I put myself behind the eight-ball starting out in the first round but I really played well in the afternoon," said Woods, who currently owns the PGA Tour's longest streak for consecutive cuts made with 70. "I wasn't swinging well, but I started out with the first shot in the afternoon, on 10, and I drove it to about 12 feet. That usually helps things. From there I hit the ball really well."

Woods is one of nine players in the clubhouse at minus-one for the championship.

Garcia birdied three of his last six holes in darkness to ascend to the top of the leaderboard.

Hoch played steady with two birdies and seven pars on his front to share the lead with the young Spaniard.

Robert Allenby (68), Vijay Singh (70), J.P. Hayes (69) and first-round leader Stewart Cink (72) completed their second rounds and are tied for third at five-under 137. Gabriel Hjertstedt is five-under through 10 holes.

Cink, who missed an 18-inch tap-in on the 72nd hole of the U.S. Open last week which would have gotten him into the Monday playoff, birdied the par- three 14th to get to five-under par.

"I am not thinking about the little short putt on the end because as far as I am concerned, I had no business being in the playoff after I made a bogey on the last hole," Cink said, referring to the mishap at Southern Hills. "Retief (Goosen) was going to two-putt. I was just trying to get out of his way. That is over. I have talked enough about that."

Per-Ulrik Johansson is the only player at four-under par who has finished his round. Brad Faxon is through 11 holes, Tripp Isenhour eagled his next to last hole, the seventh, and Jeff Hart completed six to get to minus- four.

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