Barr, who has won just twice on the PGA Tour -- the 1981 Quad Cities Open and 1987 Atlanta Classic -- shot a 7-under-par 65 for a two-round total of 9-under 135. That was one shot better than first-round leader Chris DiMarco, who had a 70. Chris Perry also shot a 70 and was another stroke back in third.

Early-morning fog delayed play 90 minutes before evaporating into a cloudless mid-September day more like Palm Springs, Calif., than upstate New York. The late start forced tournament officials to suspend play at dusk with 22 players still on the course. They will finish their rounds beginning at 7:30 a.m. Saturday.

Barr has been struggling to recover from back surgery that cut short his 1997 season and has left him with balance problems on uphill lies because he can't transfer his weight quickly enough into the slope.

"I would have thought I would be a little bit farther along coming back than I have been," said Barr, who has won just $23,000 in 18 tournaments this year. "But when I talk to people, they say it's going to be up to two years before I get fully recovered."

Today, the recovery seemed complete, especially on the greens where Barr needed just 26 putts.

"It was a real satisfying round," said Barr, who used a sand wedge to set up four of his seven birdies on the bogey-free round. "Today was just kind of play one hole at a time and not get too far ahead of yourself. Hopefully, we can sneak something out."

If Barr came out of nowhere, so, too, did 46-year-old R.W. Eaks, who also shot a 65, aching back and all, and was in an eight-way tie at 138. For the man they call "Gramps" on the Nike tour, it was as refreshing as most of his weekends have been lately -- he had missed nine straight cuts.

"It seemed like kind of a walk in the park for a while, and I've been walking in the park a lot on weekends," said Eaks, who had eight birdies and one bogey on the day. "This is the first weekend I'm going to be around in 11 tournaments. I have been walking a lot in the parks."

Jim McGovern also moved into contention with a 65. McGovern, who opened with a 3-over 75 on Thursday, birdied three of his first four holes, then nailed an eagle-2 on the par-4 No. 9 from about 100 yards and finished at 140.

For Fred Funk, the round was both satisfying and frustrating. He smiled at the solid 67 he shot and frowned at what could have been.

After waiting for the fog to burn off, Funk had three birdies and a hole-in-one on the first five holes. But he only managed one more birdie the remainder of the round.

"I did shoot 5-under, but I was 5-under after five holes and I really do feel like I let a really low one go because I was so far under so quick," said Funk, who got his first ace on the PGA Tour with a 9-iron from about 135 yards. "And then I just shot even par coming in.

"But I'm still in really good position," said Funk, who won the rain-shortened 1996 B.C. Open in a playoff with Pete Jordan. "I did what I wanted to do. I would have taken 67 before I teed off, but with the weather and the conditions I really felt like I should have shot lower."

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