Ricky Barnes hit his drive off the second tee into the deep rough. The horn sounded before he his his second shot. Barnes opted to play the shot on Monday morning. He and Lucas Glover are tied for the lead and five shots clear of four players, including Phil Mickelson.

Tiger Woods continued after the horn sounded, birdieing the seventh hole to get back to even par, 7 shots behind Barnes and Glover.

Ricky Barnes led by 1 shot over Lucas Glover after three rounds of the U.S. Open but once had a 6-shot lead on the 10th tee. He and Glover are paired together again in the final roun.
Glover bogeyed the opening hole to fall back into a tie with Glover. There is a little light still left on Father's Day, the longest day f the year.

The pair are currently 5 shots clear of the field.

The U.S. Open third round resumption was pushed back from 7:30 a.m. because of more rain being dumped on Bethpage Black.

But the grounds crew has gotten the coruse into playable shape and hopefully, this tournament will be completed some time before the end of July.

Seriously, this will be the first time regulation play in an Open championship has extended into Monday since 1983. The third round is scheduled to end around 5 p.m., then the USGA will re-pair for the fourth round and go off both tees again until play is halted.

Then the fourth round and an 18-hole playoff if necessary will be completed Monday - assuming heavy rain will hold off for the remainder of the tournament. That's a big assumption.

The third round was postponed after a brief, but heavy downpour flooded some of the greens at Bethpage Black. The leaders had not yet teed off.
The third round is scheduled to resume at 7:30 a.m. Sunday. Ricky Barnes leads Lucas Glover by one shot and Mike Weir by two.

The second round of the U.S. Open was completed shortly after 4 p.m. Saturday. Ricky Barnes fired a second-round 65, finishing it up on Saturday morning, to take a 1-shot lead over Lucas Glover in the 109th championship being held at Bethpage Black.

The 8-under-par total of 132 is a new US Open record, breaking the old mark of Jim Furyk (2003) by one shot. Mike Weir is in third place two shots behind Barnes while David Duval leads a three-way tie for fourth place five shots behind.

Phil Mickelson is in a tie for 12th place at 1-under, seven strokes behind Barnes, while defending champions Tiger Woods is in a tie for 41st place, 11 shots behind.

The cut came at 4-over 144. The third round will begin soon.

On Thursday, we preview the U.S. Open, which is being played at Bethpage Black in Farmingdale, N.Y. The Register will be providing coverage throughout next weekend live from the tournament.

Average Joe not only previews the Open and gives his three choices to win, he also visits the 15th hole at Western Hills GC in Waterbury. The results are pretty dismal for the resident hacker.

In two weeks, the Register will be providing wall-to-wall coverage of the Travelers Championship with Sergio Garcia, Vijay Singh, Anthony Kim and Zach Johnson among the players expected to make the ride up from Long Island to Cromwell to compete in the tournament June 25-28 at TPC River Highlands.

The hole of the week to appear in Thursday's Register is the short 13th par-4 hole. Average Joe takes on Race Brook's new head pro, Paul Barnsley.

Also, the new book, Haunted Golf, by Middletown resident Anthony Pioppi and Florida resident Chris Gonsalves, is profiled.

The next stop on the Average Joe hole series is the par-5 15th hole at Alling Memorial Golf Course in New Haven. It is a picturesque hole that has more trouble than you can see with the naked eye.

There is also a book called "Golf at Yale," detailing the long and rich history of the Course at Yale. John Godley and William Kelly provide an informative look at the people behind what made Yale, which opened in 1926, what it is today.

Check out the Register's review of the book in Thursday's editions.

Justin Leonard, Woody Austin, Nick O’Hern and Billy Mayfair have committed to the Travelers Championship June 25–28 at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell.
Leonard, who was a member of last year's victorious U.S. Ryder Cup team, is currently the No. 27 ranked player in the world and has finished in the top-10 four times this year. Austin won the Travelers event in 2004.
O'Hern finished third at the Travelers in 2007. Mayfair returns for the 18th time to the tournament, where he finished in the top-10 in 1992 and 2007.
These new commitments join a strong list, including the world’s No. 3 and No.9 ranked players Sergio Garcia and Vijay Singh, defending champion Stewart Cink, and some of the PGA TOUR’s most popular players, such as Kenny Perry, Anthony Kim and Stuart Appleby.

In other golf news, Gaylord Sports Management, the agency representing Phil Mickelson, reported today that the world's No. 2 golfer is taking a leave of absence immediately from the PGA Tour to be with his wife Amy, who has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Mickelson was supposed to have played the next two events, the Byron Nelson and the Colonial, where he is the defending champion.

Masayuki Kobayashi of Tumble Brook Country Club in Bloomfield shot a 1-over-par 73 Monday to take a one-shot lead into the final two rounds of the sixth Russell C. Palmer Cup at Hop Meadow CC in Simsbury.
There is a three-way tie for second place at 74 between Evan Beirne (New Haven CC), a finalist in last year’s Connecticut Amateur championship, Dave Szewczul (Tunxis Plantation CC) and Dan Quatrocelli (Manchester CC). All 36 holes will be played today.
Ronald LaVerdiere of Laurel View CC in Hamden is in a four-way tie for ninth place at 4-over 76. Matthew Dziubina (Brownson CC, Shelton) and Randy Hoder (New Haven CC) both shots 77s.