By Mike McAllister, PGATOUR.COM

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Matt Kuchar has suffered just one bogey through his first 36 holes, one of the big reasons he finds himself leading the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial at the halfway point.

He'd like nothing more than to continue staying out of trouble this weekend. Kuchar, at 10 under, tees off in Saturday's third round at 1:30 p.m. ET with a one-shot lead over playing partner Graham DeLaet.

"It's just steady golf," Kuichar said about the key to his success in his first two rounds. "Nothing special. Driving it well, putting it well, approaches are good. It's just been steady golf and I kepty myself out of trouble."

This is the sixth time in Kuchar's career that he has held or shared the 36-hole lead. The last time he did it was the THE PLAYERS Championship in 2012. He ended up winning the tournament, the biggest of the five wins in his PGA TOUR career.

"It's the best place to be, all right," Kuchar said about his position after completing his second round Saturday morning. "I think you always want to be in the lead with as big a lead as you can get.

"So the plan for the next 36 holes is to try to keep it going, try to make birdies."

If he goes on to victory, Kuchar will end a streak of 10 consecutive TOUR events in which the 36-hole leader/co-leader has failed to win. The last player to do so was Tiger Woods at the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Championship.

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The system that dumped an enormous amount of rain in the Texas Hill Country could be headed to the Metroplex area.

Storms are forecast to arrive around 4 p.m. ET, or about halfway through the final group's third round at Colonial Country Club. Roughly half of the PGA TOUR events in 2013 have experienced some sort of weather delay, and Friday's second round spilled over into Saturday morning.

Prior to the third round of the 2013 Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, Tom Werme and Fred Albers from SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio describe the approaching storms and some players they are watching.

The field will use split tees for the third round at Colonial (full tee times here) after several groups had to come back Saturday to finish the second round.

Final two groups:

Matt Kuchar, Graham DeLaet, Josh Teater (1:30 p.m. ET): Kuchar has never won at Colonial, but he's never missed a cut here, either. Neither DeLaet or Teater have ever won on TOUR. DeLeat's 9 under total is his career low through 36 holes. Teater is 10 under on the back nine this week, marking the lowest back nine total through two rounds since 1983.

Jordan Spieth, Steve Flesch, Freddie Jacobson (1:19 p.m. ET): Spieth, a Dallas native, has all but locked up a PGA TOUR card in 2013-2014. A win at Colonial would lock up lot more than that. It would give him a spot in the FedExCup Playoffs, next year's Hyundai Tournament of Champions, and the Masters. Flesch, 46, has been the surprise of the tournament so far. He won this event in 2004, which earned him a spot in the field this week. This was his first made cut since 2011, and he's trying to become the 13th two-time winner at Colonial. Jacobson, like Kuchar, has just one bogey in 36 holes.

Martin Laird drained a 19-footer for par on the par-4 18th Saturday to become the last player to make the cut in the Crowne Plaza Invitational. The cut ended up at 1 under, and Laird birdied three of the final six holes to sneak in. A total of 78 players made the weekend.

Notables missing the weekend:

Charl Schwartzel (Even). The 2011 Masters champ made only five birdies.
David Hearn (2 over). The Canadian shot 64 on Thursday, then went sideways with a Friday 78.
Corey Pavin (Even). The 53-year-old former Colonial winner missed the cut after bogeying final hole.
Steven Fox (Even). Reigning U.S. Amateur champ nearly made first career TOUR cut.

Matt Kuchar would move to second in the FedExCup standings with a win this week. (Halleran/Getty Images)

Matt Kuchar will carry the 36-hole lead after finishing his second round with a couple of pars on Saturday at Colonial.

Kuchar was among those who had to return to Colonial to finish the second round after thunderstorms stopped play Friday afternoon at the Crowne Plaza Invitational. Kuchar opened with rounds of 65-65 at Colonial, with only a bogey on the difficult par-3 fourth in the opening round.

Surprisingly, Kuchar has never finished better than ninth at Colonial (2008) even though the veteran pencils in this stop on his schedule every year. 

Canadian Graham DeLaet is only a shot back and will likely play with Kuchar when tee times are announced later Saturday. On Friday, DeLaet had the distinction of playing the Horrible Horseshoe (holes Nos. 3, 4, 5 at Colonial) in 2 over.

Metroplex native and resident Jordan Spieth is only two back despite a strange penalty on Friday, and 2004 Colonial winner Steve Flesch was also just two back. It was Flesch's first made cut since the 2011 season. The 46-year-old lefthander has moonlighted this year as an analyst on the Golf Channel.

Amanda Balionis and Bill Rosinski with SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio preview Round 3 of the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial from Colonial Country Club.

By Mike McAllister, PGATOUR.COM

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Matt Kuchar didn't complete his second round Friday but he did move to the top of the leaderboard before play was halted at the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial.

Kuchar, the highest-ranked player in FedExCup points in the field (No. 5 overall), was a bogey-free 5 under through the first 15 holes on his round, moving him to 10 under for the tournament.

Kuchar had just struck his tee shot at the par-3 16th when the horn blew at 7:38 p.m. ET to end play for the day. It was the second time on Friday that threatening weather halted play.

"That's a bit of a bummer," Kuchar said. "It's no fun to wake up at 4:30 to get out here and play three holes. But we get used to it for what we do.

The 54 players who were on the course will resume their second rounds at 8:15 a.m. ET on Saturday morning.

Kuchar nearly holed out from the fairway at the par-4 second, his ball sailing into the cup before popping back out. That set up his second straight birdie to start his round.

"I really got off to a great start," Kuchar said. "And then I kept playing some good golf. This course can give you trouble, but if you are hitting it good, you can make some birdies out here.

"I was hitting it good and able to fire at some pins today."

The clubhouse leader is Graham DeLaet, who is at 9 under.

DeLaet was in the early morning wave Friday and completed his round before threatening weather delayed play for more than two hours the first time. His 3-under 67 included a stretch of three consecutive birdies, followed by three consecutive bogeys at the Horrible Horseshow -- hole Nos. 3, 4 and 5, tradtionally the toughest three holes on the course.

"It definitely got me today," DeLaet said.

Four players are tied at 8 under -- Jordan Spieth, Josh Teater, Steve Flesch, who each completed their rounds; and 18-hole leader Ryan Palmer, who had finished 12 holes before the horn blew to end play for the day.

Palmer, who opened with a 62 that tied the lowest first-round in tournament history, was at 9 under until he double bogeyed the par-4 fifth when he had to take a penalty shot after an errant tee shot. He then followed with a bogey at the sixth, but once he made the turn, he birdied two of his last three holes.

Spieth shot a 67 despite suffering a one-stroke penalty when his ball fell into a spike mark on the green at the sixth hole after he addressed it. Rule 18-2b allows provides exceptions for wind-blown balls on the green but not for balls that move due to gravity.

"It's an unfortunate ruling," Spieth said. "That's just how it goes."

Flesch, who won the Colonial in 2004, tied for the low round of the day, a 6-under 64. In making the cut, he ends a personal string of 16 missed cuts dating back to late in 2011, as he has battled a right-shoulder problem for much of the past two years.

"Today was a big day for me," Flesch said. "If I would have come out and shot a couple over par and missed another cut, it would have been a tough rest of 2013."

Defending champion Zach Johnson is 5 under through 16 holes and has moved to 6 under for the tournament.

The projected cut line is 1 under. If that cut line holds, players who have already finished their rounds at even par or worse include: Charl Schwartzel, 15th in the world rankings; Corey Pavin, making his 30th Colonial start; and David Hearn, who opened with a 64 on Thursday but shot an 8-over 78 on Friday that included a quadruple bogey at the par-3 13th when he hit two balls in the water.

FORT WORTH, Texas -- With another storm on the way, play was stopped for the remainder of the day in Friday's second round of the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial.

Play was halted at 7:38 p.m. ET (6:38 p.m. local) and will re-start at 8:15 a.m. ET (7:15 a.m. local) on Saturday morning.

Play was halted for 2 hours, 10 minutes earlier in the day due to dangerous weather conditions that included lightning.

Matt Kuchar is the leader at 10 under through 15 holes.

Graham DeLaet is the clubhouse leader at 9 under.

By Mike McAllister, PGATOUR.COM

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Josh Teater is eating up the back nine at Colonial.

Through the first two rounds of the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, Teater is a cumulative 10 under on holes 10-18, with 10 birdies and zero bogeys.

That's the best back-nine performance through two rounds at Colonial since records were kept starting in 1983.

David Toms was a collective 8 under on the back nine in 2011 when he won at Colonial. Brad Faxon was also 8 under in his two rounds in 1997.

Teater has birdied every hole on the back nine except the par-3 13th at least once. He's birdied the par-4 12th and par-4 14th twice.

"I've played the back nine great so far," said Teater, who hit two trees on the front nine during his Friday round of 67. "I haven't hit any trees or had any three-putts."