Play at the Viking Classic was again suspended at 6:40 p.m. CT. In the hour of play that proceeded this latest suspension, Blake Adams completed his second-round 62, while Bobby Gates and Chris Kirk also made it to the clubhouse at double digits under par. Troy Matteson and George McNeill share the lead at 12 under. While Matteson is in the clubhouse after a second consecutive 66, McNeill is on the par-5 18th with a chance to get up and down for birdie from 25 yards out to take sole possession of the lead. Round 2 will resume Saturday morning at 7 a.m. local time. Players will be hoping for better weather after a Friday that featured two delays totaling nearly six hours before the afternoon's final stoppage.

MORE FEDEXCUP: Complete Standings | Weekly Leaders After the TOUR dividing its membership between two events in two of the last three weeks, all active players reconvene at Innisbrook for the Transitions Championship. BUILDING MOMENTUM: We saw at the Honda Classic what a good result in an opposite field event can do when the schedule shifts back to a single-event week. Rory Sabbatini, who posted a 5-under 66 in the final round of the Mayakoba Golf Classic to slide into a tie for fifth, followed it up with a big victory at The Honda Classic. He currently sits at No. 5 in the FedExCup standings. Charles Howell III and Tommy Gainey each were in the top 20 in Mexico, then in the top 10 at PGA National. WHO’S NEXT?: Stephen Ames moved into a tie for third with a final-round 66 last week in Puerto Rico and tied for sixth last year at Innisbrook. He moved to 79th in the FedExCup standings and could make another moved with a good showing. Hunter Haas (FedExCup: 50th) has three consecutive top-35 finishes including a T3 last week in Puerto Rico while Bobby Gates (FedExCup: 113th) has finished T5 and solo sixth in the last two opposite field events. Keep an eye on these under-the-radar players with momentum this week. BEST NEW ARRIVAL: Aron Price made his first cut in four starts last week in Puerto Rico and entered the standings in 197th place. Price has just missed the Playoffs each of the last two years, finishing 129th and 136th. BIGGEST MOVERS: Puerto Rico Open champion Michael Bradley bounded 114 spots up the standings from 147th to 33rd with his 250-point winner’s share. Troy Matteson, who fell to Bradley in a playoff, moved up 79 spots from 112th to 43rd. Ames and George McNeil also made 50-plus spot jumps from Puerto Rico. At the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Championship, Adam Scott, with new putter in hand, earned 100 points from his T6 finish and moved 61 spots from 126th to 65th. Padraig Harrington and Tiger Woods, each tied for 10th, moved up 60 and 59 spots respectively. Woods is now 93rd, while Harrington sits at 101st in the standings. NOTABLE DROPS: 2010 q-school medalist Billy Mayfair slipped from 111th to 126th after taking last week off following a missed cut at The Honda Classic. Also dropping out of the coveted top 125 spots were David Toms, Chris Stroud, Charlie Wi, and Lucas Glover among others. MORE ON LAST WEEK’S WINNERS: WGC-Cadillac Championship champion Nick Watney climbed to No. 2 in the FedExCup standings, the highest position of his career. Watney, you may remember, was a tournament-best 10-under on the weekend last year at THE TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola. That performance moved him from 28th to 12th in the final standings. An early favorite in this season’s FedExCup competition, the victory will help get Watney into a better position as the TOUR season continues. Bradley’s victory in Puerto Rico was the fourth of his career and first since 2009, also at the Puerto Rico Open. Bradley has never made the PGA TOUR Playoffs for the FedExCup, finishing 139th and 145th in the last two regular seasons. His 298 points leave him just eight points away from his 306-point total each of those years, and less than 100 points shy of what it took to make the Playoffs in each year. -Chris Dunham

During previous incarnations of Tiger Woods swing changes, his equipment remained fairly consistent. Not this time.

Like countless other pros before him, Woods is tinkering with his putter. The Scotty Cameron model he used for his decade-plus run of dominance isn’t the automatic choice anymore. Last year at the British Open he put a Nike Method 003 mid-mallet putter in the bag and it continues to appear occasionally, like at last week’s World Golf Championships-Cadillac Championship.

“The Method putter is what I usually practice with at home. I like the toe swinging. It's a heel-shafted putter, so I enjoy the toe moving more,” Woods said.

“But more than anything … I've always struggled on slow greens. I've just never really have enjoyed putting on slow greens. The Method, with the grooves, it comes off faster, and it's worked on the slower greens, and one of the reasons why I switched at St. Andrews to it. And I played it at Chevron last year and I played it here this week. It definitely comes off faster, and especially on grainier greens like this, it helped a lot.”

In Woods’ final-round 66 Sunday at TPC Blue Monster at Doral he was T8 in putts, by far his best of the week.

● Speaking of putter switches, Troy Matteson appears to have hit on a good move in going to a belly putter. Last week he lost in a playoff at the Puerto Rico Open but left pleased with his play, especially on the greens.

“Last year I used the standard putter and the last four years I’ve just really struggled with my putting. Had a lot of days where I hit 15 greens and had 33 putts, and out here when you’re putting with the best putters in the world, you need to get under that 30 mark more times than not,” Matteson said.

“So this year at Torrey Pines my agent and caddie got together and said, ‘hey, why don't we just try something new.’ So we got a belly putter, and I've never really liked them because when you pick them up in the store, I think they're built for someone who's probably 5'8 to 5'10, and they're just a little short for me (Matteson is 6 foot). Mine is little over 45 inches, so it's a lot longer than what you find in the store, and all of a sudden the ball's rolling straight. My speed's not an issue.”

Matteson surprised himself with a great putting week at the Farmers Insurance Open (T9), and the TOUR had one more belly-putter convert.

● Arguably the most surprisingly slow start on TOUR this year is Jim Furyk’s, with two missed cuts in four full-field events, a first-round loss in the WGC-Accenture Match Play and only one top-10 finish (at the winners-only Hyundai Tournament of Champions). The defending FedExCup champion is 74th in 2011 points.

He’s not the type to blame equipment for a mini-slump, but it’s fact that he has some new stuff in play and is still moving things in and out of his “open bag,” which is only contracted to TaylorMade for their ball and driver.

“I’ve been tinkering, and there’s good and bad to tinkering,” Furyk said Wednesday at the Transitions Championship. “Obviously being affiliated with TaylorMade, I'm trying a lot of their products. I've got some hybrids in the bag and putters and with tinkering comes some issues as well. I'll eventually settle in, sort everything out.”

He said the biggest adjustment so far has been to his new TaylorMade Penta ball after playing Srixon, but notes it was a change he initiated.

“I actually approached TaylorMade and told them I wanted to play the ball rather than them recruiting me last year,” Furyk. “Because I really believe in it and I think it's a good product.”

● Nick Watney’s win at the WGC-Cadillac came with a Titleist 910D3 driver. He was sixth in the field in driving distance and T12 in accuracy. – John Schwarb

It’s very early in the opening round of THE PLAYERS Championship, but Troy Matteson is off to a good start with three straight birdies on Nos. 2-4. The best of those birdies for Matteson came on the par-3 third, where he rolled in a 38-footer. Matteson is playing in his fourth PLAYERS, but he’s missed the cut twice and finished 73rd in his other appearance. Matteson is one of those players some might not expect to contend here, but he’s sneaky long off the tee -- 293.3-yard average, good for 12th on TOUR -- and ranks fourth in greens in regulation. Those are key statistics, especially here. Of course, he also ranks 184th in putting average, so as long as Matteson keeps hitting it close, or bombing it in, he’ll be fine. -- Brian Wacker