Friday's second round of the Australian Open at Royal Sydney was suspended for the day after heavy rain made the the Rose Bay layout unplayable.
This with West Australia's Stephen Dartnall holding a two-shot lead over joint Mathew Goggin, one of the two who shared the overnight lead with him.
Goggin, the runner-up to Rd Pampling at the Australian Masters last week, struggled to a two-under-par 70 on Friday.
So too did Ewan Porter, the third member of the trio who shared the lead after round one.
Porter sits one behind Goggin in third spot after signing for a 71 which included bogeys on two of his final three lain-rashed holes.
Playing in the first group of the day, Dartnall made the most of the wet but calm conditions on his way to the four-under 68 that has given him sole possession of the lead at 11 under.
Pampling also battled in with a second round 71 but at six-under he is still in contention alongside Matt Jones, of New South Wales, Jones having climbed yhe leaderboard with an invaluable in five-under par 67.
Playing in the second group of the afternoon field, Robert Allenby made light work of the trying conditions to move to five under overall and four under on the day after playing the first nine holes.
Two-time champion Peter Lonard sits alongside Allenby after carding a two-under 70 while Cameron Percy, who equalled Jones' low round of the day with a matching a 67, is also one of five players at five under.
Pre-tournament favourite Geoff Ogilvy had made an early move, turning in 34 to sit at two-under overall along and American veteran Paul Goydos when play was stopped.
And it now seems that South African Tim Clark will be back for the weekend action after carding a one-over 73 that put him into a tie for 36th at one under for the tournament with boom amateur Danny Lee.
Lee dropped three shots in his final seven holes to tumble down the leaderboard.
Jarrod Lyle (71) and Marc Leishman (72) are among several players facing a nervous wait at one-over in a share of 54th but former champion Stuart Appleby, did his best to save his round with two birdies in his last three holes, is currently on the outside looking in at plus two for the tournament in a share of 71st.
Defending champion Craig Parry (73), veteran Peter Senior (74) and Nathan Green (73) are a further stroke back but the controversial American drawcard John Daly is one under through nine at plus five for the tournament and looks likely to cruise into the weekend
LATEST COMPLETED SCORES
(Aus unless stated, par 72):
Note: Second round play has been suspended due to heavy rain, round-two is now scheduled to resume on Friday at 6.45am with round-three to commence at 11.45am
133 Stephen Dartnell 65 68
135 Mathew Goggin 65 70
136 Ewan Porter 65 71
138 Rodney Pampling 67 71, Matthew Jones 71 67
139 Rick Kulacz 70 69, Cameron Percy 72 67, Stuart Bouvier 70 69, Peter Lonard 69 70
140 Adam Bland 71 69, Andre Stolz 69 71, Anthony Brown 70 70, Terry Pilkadaris 70 70
141 Leigh McKechnie 72 69, Craig Scott 69 72, Andrew Bonhomme 69 72, Kurt Barnes 71 70
142 Gareth Paddison (Nzl) 70 72, Stephen Allan 72 70
143 Danny Lee (Nzl) 68 75, Matthew Millar 74 69, Jarrod Moseley 71 72, Ben Burge 72 71, Anthony Summers 69 74, Tim Clark (Rsa) 70 73, Ashley Hall 72 71
144 Chris Campbell 75 69, Darron Stiles (USA) 73 71, Tim Wood 70 74, Andrew McKenzie (Eng) 73 71
145 David Lutterus (Rsa) 76 69, Phil Tataurangi (Nzl) 75 70, Marcus Cain 71 74, Kane Webber (USA) 70 75, Tony Carolan 72 73, Jarrod Lyle 74 71, Daniel Hyndman 74 71, Marc Leishman 73 72, Dae-hyun Kim (Kor) 75 70, Jens Nilsson (Swe) 71 74, Terry Price 77 68
146 Manny Villegas (Col) 77 69, Andrew Tampion 76 70, Andrew Martin 74 72, Michael McGrath 74 72, Andrew Dodt 75 71, Stephen Leaney 76 70, Peter Senior 72 74, Nathan Green 73 73, Craig Parry 73 73, Stuart Appleby 73 73
147 Paul Gow 76 71, Ki joon Song 75 72, Aron Price 74 73, Greg Chalmers 72 75, Adam Crawford 71 76, Matt Jager 74 73, Craig Spence 72 75, Tim Stewart 74 73
148 Aaron Townsend 74 74, Steve Alker (Nzl) 75 73, Mitchell Brown 74 74, James Nitties 74 74
149 Scott Barr 79 70
150 Alex Simpson 75 75, Tom Prowse 74 76, Grant Moorhead (Nzl) 77 73, Jared Consoli 73 77
151 Daniel Nisbet 73 78
152 Grant Scott 77 75, Kieran Pratt 74 78
153 Clint Rice 74 79
154 Andrew Tschudin 76 78
155 Ashley Umbers 78 77, Simon Nash 78 77
157 Raffael Toperoso 79 78
158 Steven Jeffress 79 79
159 Brett Rankin 76 83
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