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By Joe Chemycz
PGA TOUR Staff

Weather: An additional 0.10" of rain fell overnight, bringing the Thursday-Friday total to 0.64". Partly cloudy with some brief afternoon showers. Afternoon high 82. Winds were light and variable.

First-round play resumed at 8 a.m. and concluded at 9:34 a.m. Second-round play began on time at 9 a.m. and finished at 2:51 p.m.

Saturday's forecast is for partly cloudy skies and 82 degrees. Third-round tee times will run from noon to 2:20 p.m. with an expected finish of 6 p.m.

Here's how the leaderboard looked after the end of the first round:
62 Tim Clark
63 Padraig Harrington
64 John Rollins, Tiger Woods
65 Hunter Mahan, Woody Austin, Mark Calcavecchia

24 of 30 players in the field broke par in round one, which had a scoring average of 67.500. The previous high for the number of players below par in round one at East Lake was 13 in 2000 and 2004.

22 of 30 players in the field broke par in round two, which had a scoring average of 67.833.

Players who were bogey-free in the first round:
62 Tim Clark
65 Hunter Mahan, Woody Austin
68 Rory Sabbatini

Players who were bogey-free in the second round:
67 Boo Weekley
68 Rory Sabbatini

Tiger Woods added three birdies and one bogey Friday morning to his Thursday total (-4) and finished round one at 6-under 64. The 64 is Woods' best opening-round score in his 11 TOUR Championship starts. His previous best socre was a 66 in the first round in 2005, his last appearance at East Lake. His 64 also matched his career-best in this event and at this course -- a 64 in the second round in 2004.

The 495-yard, par-5 15th hole is playing the easiest thus far. Through 36 holes, the hole has a scoring average of 4.167 with 7 eagles, 36 birdies and 17 pars. There has not been a single above-par score posted on the hole the first two days. The easiest hole on the 2007 PGA TOUR is the par-5, 11th hole at the Palmer Course at PGA West (Bob Hope Chrysler Classic), which had a stroke average of 4.286.

Birdies come in bunches at East Lake this week. The list of players who have made three-or-more birdies in a row:

Tiger Woods posted a 7-under-par 28 on the front nine in round two today, holing a 70' 4" putt for eagle on the par-5, 9th hole. The 28 is the second-lowest 9-hole score on the PGA TOUR this year, bettered only by rookie Brandt Snedeker's 9-under 27 at the Buick Invitational back in January.

Tiger Woods' 28 today is his career-best, 9-hole score on the PGA TOUR. His previous best was a 29, which he had done four times.

Another note on Woods' birdie-eagle streak to close out the front nine -- his 7-under streak is his career-best, topping a 6-under streak (E-E-B-B) at the 2005 Buick Open

Tiger Woods' best birdie streaks:

Tiger Woods is looking for his first career win at East Lake Golf Club in this, his sixth appearance. The only other course where Woods is "0-for" in more than three starts is Riviera Country Club, site of the Nissan Open. Woods is winless in 11 starts at the Nissan tournament.

The low opening-36 hole score in tournament history:

Tiger Woods is 27-under par for his last four rounds:
• 65-63 (14-under) last two rounds of the BMW Championship
• 64-63 (13-under) first two rounds of THE TOUR Championship

Woody Austin, winner of the Stanford St. Jude Championship, is making his second career appearance in THE TOUR Championship. Austin has posted back-to-back 65s and is at 10-under 130, which tied the previous tournament record for low opening 36-hole score. Austin is No. 17 in the FedExCup point standings and is in second place after 36 holes.

K. J. Choi had eight birdies during his second-round 65. Choi is at 8-under and tied for sixth place.

Birdies have been hard to come by for Rory Sabbatini, who is the only player in the field without a bogey for the first 36 holes. Sabbatini is at 4-under-par 136 after consecutive 68s. He has hit 28 of 36 greens in regulation (14 each day) but has had a total of 60 putts (30 each day).