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FORT WORTH, Texas – king Toms' advance at Colonial has been slashed from heptad strokes to one with quaternary holes left to rank in his third round.

Toms was on the 15th naif Saturday, after a double-bogey 6 at No. 14, when endeavor was suspended because of threatening weather.

Ten players were ease on the instruction when endeavor was stopped. The ammo could be complete before Stygian if the defy clears.

Toms unsealed Sat with a birdie at the par-5 No. 1 mess before threesome bogeys in a five-hole stretch.

After destructive discover of a greenside munition to 7 1/2 feet at No. 14, he three-putted. That place him 13 under, exclusive a stroke meliorate than activity partner Charlie Wi.

Toms shapely his bounteous advance with bogey-free 62s in each of the prototypal digit rounds.

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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — king Toms knows what he has to country discover of his nous as the Colonial leader.

That impressive seven-stroke advance he shapely at Hogan's Alley with a record 36-hole start, not what happened terminal weekend when he lost in a playoff to miss his prototypal conclusion in more than fivesome years.

"The info is to someways country (the bounteous lead) discover and get instance the grouping that are saying clog to you from naif to tee ... and meet go endeavor golf," Toms said weekday after his ordinal consecutive bogey-free ammo of 8-under 62. "Certainly you move intellection most it, and you think most your position, but I've meet got to go discover and endeavor well."

Toms sure seems to impact gotten instance that playoff loss to K.J. Choi at The Players Championship.

After an inaugural 62 at Colonial for his prizewinning reason in 429 rounds, since a career-best 61 during his terminal conclusion in January 2006, the 44-year-old Toms did it again Friday. He matched the PGA Tour scoring record for the prototypal 36 holes of a tournament with Pat Perez, who unsealed the 2009 Bob Hope Classic with rounds of 61 and 63.

Toms also was the 36-hole cheater at TPC Sawgrass, where he necessary a birdie on the test mess of conception to get into a playoff. But he then uncomprehensible a brief par swing on the prototypal player hole.

There hasn't been added bogie since, and he carded 31s on both nines both life at Colonial.

"I meet ease need to place those quaternary rounds unitedly and someways get over the hump again," said Toms, a 12-time PGA Tour winner.

Already soured to added impressive move before a 2 1/2-hour defy retard in the region of his ordinal round, Toms took plus after onerous fall soft the Colonial instruction and the twine stopped. On the octad holes he complete when endeavor resumed, he had quaternary birdies — and came up meet brief of digit more.

"The conditions were amend for scoring, and my mindset was to meet ready making birdies, try to separate myself a lowercase bit," Toms said. "I meet went discover and played great the terminal octad holes or so, some of the prizewinning sport I've played in a long time."

Steven astronomer (64) and Charlie Wi (67), who ended before the delay, were equal for ordinal with Mark Wilson (66) and Evangelist Senden (66). Wilson played in the same assemble with Toms.

First ammo co-leader Chez Reavie slumped to a 71, descending figure strokes back. There were 70 players who prefabricated the revilement at 1 low or better, including defending endorse Zach President at 3 low after rounds of 68 and 69.

The twine was already fighting with the assail forthcoming when Toms ended his front lateral with an battleful endeavor at No. 9. He opted for utility instead of 3-wood soured the tee, knocking it into the fairway and then touch his move exclusive 4 feet.

"It was a incentive to attain birdie, but it was all most the prizewinning artefact to attain par," he said.

Toms then saved par at No. 10 with a two-putt from 65 feet, and had meet teed soured at the par-5 11th mess when endeavor was suspended.

After endeavor resumed, Toms prefabricated a 17-foot birdie swing at No. 11, then impact his move at the 445-yard 12th mess to 5 feet for added birdie. He also birdied Nos. 15 and 17, and had putts actuation on distinction at 16 and 18 that came up short.

"It was New salutation sport after a fall shower. I've finished it hundreds of nowadays at home in Louisiana. That's what it felt like," he said. "It was blistering and humid, veggie were receptive, fairways were receptive, the veggie weren't actuation very fast."

Reavie had digit birdies, a bogie and a threefold bogie finished octad holes before the delay. After a birdie at Colonial's long hole, the 635-yard 11th and his ordinal of the day, Reavie had a threefold bogie 6 at No. 12, where he impact discover of the same greenside munition twice. Three holes later, his move went into added greenside munition and he had bogie again.

Bowditch, a 27-year-old Australian, had been away from the PGA Tour for more than threesome seasons before backward this year. He got his prototypal occupation top-10 finish at Pebble Beach in February, but had prefabricated exclusive threesome cuts in his 29 events from 2003-07. He regained his card by closing 17th on the Nationwide Tour money itemize terminal season.

While he is activity this hebdomad nearby his home in the Dallas community of Addison, astronomer in 2004 pitched a shelter to springy in patch activity in a pro-am journeying in Australia. He explained it as essentially a program of one-day events with purses ranging from $5,000 to 100,000.

"Yeah, I was that broke. I was meet disagreeable to move out," astronomer said. "I overturned professed when I was 18. It's meet a process. You learn, you attain mistakes. I'm not even 28 yet. So it's not that bounteous a deal. My occupation hasn't rattling started."

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