Graeme McDowell and Nick Watney share the lead after day three of the Players Championship at Sawgrass following a four-and-a-half-hour storm delay.

The pair will resume their third rounds on the final day after managing only five holes on Saturday.

Northern Ireland's McDowell and American Watney lead David Toms and Steve Stricker by one shot after closing on 11 under par.

Englishman Luke Donald is on eight under with Martin Kaymer.

Both Donald and German Kaymer are shooting for the world number one spot as well as the title.

Johnson’s sin? Grounding his club in a sand trap. Now for the avalanche of follow-ups:

What is grounding?

In the simplest of terms, it’s when your club touches the ground before your swing. For example, when you address the ball and place the head of the club on the ground to ready yourself.

But I do that all the time when I golf!

Golfers are allowed to ground the club on fairways, at the tee, in the rough  pretty much anywhere but in a hazard, like sand.

Why doesn’t a professional golfer know this rule?

Johnson does. But the trap he found himself in wasn’t obviously a trap. Whistling Straits is famous for having sandy little spots all over the place, about 1,200 on the course. Many could fool even the most seasoned pro. I just thought it was on a piece of dirt where the crowd had trampled [everything] down,Johnson explained after the penalty.

The problem here is twofold: First, the crowd was all over that trap all weekend long, so it looked more like a waste area” than a sand trap. However, the rules committee posted a set of rules explaining that the course has a lot of weirdly-placed bunkers, and if someone happened to land in something even slightly sandy — no matter where it is on the course, how tiny it may be, or even how many tire tracks it may have in it — he had to play it like a bunker.

So whose side do we take here?

This is where it gets tough.

It was black print on a piece of white, 8 x 11 paper, Steve Elling of CBSSports.com writes, in regards to the posted set of rules. Not a lick of gray to be found.

Emotions aside, it’s hard not to commiserate with Johnson, adds NBCSports.com’s Dan o

Begay says Tiger needs time for 'emotions to settle' before finding his game

Notah Begay III says Tiger Woods is hitting the ball as well as ever, though he isn't surprised that Woods is struggling to recapture his game.

Begay, who roomed with Woods at Stanford, said Tuesday that it's difficult for anybody to address marital woes every week, especially publicly.

"It's going to take some time for the emotions to settle and for him to sort of get 100 per cent focused on golf," Begay said at a press conference promoting the Turning Stone Resort Championship.

Woods now has played seven tournaments without winning. It's the longest he has ever gone at the start of a season since turning pro, and he hasn't been a threat on the back nine of any tournament. Not even at the Masters or U.S. Open, where he tied for fourth

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Notah Begay says Tiger Woods needs time

Tiger Woods' former roommate and fellow pro Notah Begay III says the world No. 1 is hitting the ball as solid as ever, but he isn't surprised that Woods is struggling to recapture his game.

Begay, who roomed with Woods at Stanford University, says it's difficult for anybody to address marital woes every week, especially publicly. He says it will take some time for Woods' "emotions to settle and for him to sort of get 100 percent focused on golf."

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Fade now is part of Woods’s game

That may change before the calendar year is out, but it’s a pretty apt characterization for a golfer whose current 18-hole round average score of 71.19 has him tied with Brian Davis and Geoff Ogilvy for 110th place.

British Open 2010 Results: St. Andrews was the host of a very surprising start to the 150th British Open. Towards the top of the leader board is a name we haven’t seen in a while, John Daly with a first round score of 66. Playing in his already expected unique attire, Daly wearing purple printed pants, a peach shirt and a blue sweater, surprised everyone when he was playing like he did in 1995. Daly won the Open at St. Andrews that year and by the looks of it he may have found what was missing from his game for a while.

I haven’t been in this position in a long, long time,” Daly said. You know, I feel the game is coming around, and when I’m hitting my driver the way I am right now, it brings confidence.”

The 44–year-old was killing with the driver and on target with his putts. But the American claims it has not been easy for him to get to this point. He has had to overcome lap-band surgery, which does not allow him to overeat or drink beer. He also struggled with back problems that in turn affected his golf game.

He was startlingly visible on the fairways of St. Andrews in Thursday's opening round of the British Open, in his robin's egg blue cap, salmon pink shirt, violet vest, and those slacks that looked like cheap motel curtains. But there was no drunk-tank behavior, no teeing off on a beer can. There was just a telltale plume of cigarette smoke -- a lingering vice -- and a series of solid, charismatic cracks off the tee, the sounds of strength meeting ease. His seven-birdie opening round of 66 was one of his most aggressive, yet rational, performances in a major championship since he won the 1995 British Open here.

The guy who used to be known as "Wild Thing" apparently is in need of a new nickname. What should we call him now?

"I don't know," he said. "Mild Thing?"

It's risky to say anything definitive about Daly, given the whirls of his personal and professional lives, the heartbreaking dissipation, binges, divorces, and compulsive gambling that caused a winless streak from '95 to 2004. But he may be in the midst of a genuine resurgence.

He staggered through a disastrous 2008 in which he hurt his ribs, earned a six-month suspension from the PGA Tour for unbecoming conduct, and nearly topped 300 pounds. In February 2009 in an effort to get a grip on himself, he decided to undergo gastric band surgery. He says he hasn't had a cocktail since. It's allowed him to see what a little stamina and consistent practice might do for a player whose talent is still rampant.

"I don't know. I'm 44 years old," he said. "I've learned a lot. I have never run from my mistakes. I've always been honest with you guys and everybody around me. You know, it's how you come back. For me, I'm on a comeback."

Daly chose to have the procedure, which restricts the size of the stomach, at the behest of his daughter, who also has undergone it and lost 100 pounds. He says he can no longer tolerate beer, or junk food.