Play on day two at the HSBC Champions in Shanghai was abandoned due to rain and a waterlogged course at the Sheshan International Golf Club.
Following torrential overnight rain, the first tee-off time was continually pushed back throughout the day until play was abandoned just before 2pm local time (0600 GMT).
Several players had appeared on the driving range, while ground staff worked at clearing standing water from the fairways, as the rain briefly subsided.
But the showers resumed, with the forecast for worsening conditions, and it was confirmed second-round play would begin tomorrow at 6.45am local time.
The weekend forecast is significantly better, but the leading players are still expected to have to complete their third rounds on Sunday morning.
Play will only be allowed to run over until Monday should the fourth round begin on Sunday.
Sweden's Henrik Stenson heads the leaderboard at the five million US dollar (Ј3.2million) event on seven under par, by one stroke from defending champion Phil Mickelson, Sergio Garcia, Anthony Kim and Adam Scott.
Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell was the only player to brave the conditions this morning and he spent over an hour on the driving range in a bid to tighten-up his game following an opening one-under-par 71 yesterday.
"It is frustrating to come all the way out to Shanghai and have a course that is this well presented and a big purse to play for. You can do everything you want but you can't change the weather," world number 33 McDowell told PA Sport.
McDowell has enjoyed an extraordinary year as wins at the inaugural Ballantine's Championship and The Barclays Scottish Open secured a Ryder Cup debut against the USA at Valhalla.
Despite an eighth-place finish at last week's season-ending Volvo Masters, which secured a career-high fifth-place finish on the European Tour Order of Merit, the 29-year-old McDowell is still seeking improvement with one eye on the new money-spinning Race to Dubai.
He said: "I didn't hit it particularly well yesterday, I didn't hit it particularly well last week at Valderrama, but also I wanted to get something done for the day, feel like I done something and keep the work rate up.
"There were a few things I wanted to work on."
A statement from European Tour tournament director David Probyn said: "Play was abandoned today on the basis that the two hour period of dry weather we did have, did not restore the golf course to playable conditions on the fairways and with light to moderate rain forecast for the rest of the day, in addition to also decreasing visibility, clearly the situation was only going to worsen.
"Our prime objective and our current intention is to complete 72 holes in the HSBC Champions. Round Two is scheduled to start at 6.45am tomorrow morning and our plan will be to put the players straight back out for the third round without a redraw. Therefore we would hope that the final matches would be able to achieve around 27 holes tomorrow.
"We would then intend to restart the third round, with the players on the course, at around 6.30am or 6.45am on Sunday morning, meaning the third round would conclude around 8.45am on Sunday morning. We would then redraw for the fourth and final round with tee times being approximately between 9.30am and 11.30am.
"Clearly if we have further delays to this schedule there is a strong possibility that play in the fourth round may need to be completed on Monday morning and this has been provisionally been agreed with all the parties within the tournament."
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