Gay leads the way at stormy Memphis

MEMPHIS (Reuters) - American Brian Gay shot a four under-par 66 to lead by two shots on 10-under overall in the second round of the St Jude Classic on Friday.
Stormy weather ended play early at TPC Southwind and over half the field need to complete the round early on Saturday.
Gay, the overnight leader after an opening six-under 64, continued his impressive showing with a string of five birdies in the first eight holes.
Although he finished with bogeys on the par four 17th and 18th, Gay still has the advantage over compatriot Bryce Molder and Australian Robert Allenby on eight-under.
But Allenby only managed to complete 15 holes before a premature end to the day's play with thunder clouds closing in.
"I'll come out tomorrow and do the same stuff," said Gay. Hopefully, I'll get off to another good start."
He won the Heritage Classic in April and is looking for his third career win on the PGA Tour.
Molder finished his bogey-free round in real style with birdies on the final three holes.
"It was about as clean a round as I could have had," he said. "I think I missed a couple fairways and maybe one or two greens and just happened to be 10 to 20 feet all day long, and I was just rolling long really."
Woody Austin, Guy Boros and David Tomas were all tied for fourth on seven-under after Austin and Boros shot 66s on Friday, while Tomas stood at four-under after 14 holes.
World number two Phil Mickelson, returning after a five-week absence due to his wife being diagnosed with cancer, was two-under for the day and four-under overall although he still has three holes of his second round to complete.
Colombian Camilo Villegas, producing his trademark 'Spiderman' routine of lowering himself down on all fours to view the lay of the green, was four-under after 12 holes on Friday, taking him to within four shots of the lead.
Fourth-ranked Sergio Garcia will almost certainly not make the cut after he shot three over par with a double-bogey on the 17th hole (his eighth) to follow his even-par on Thursday.
With the projected cut set at evens, Swede Henrik Stenson, winner of the Players Championship in May, will miss out after another poor round, five over-par, left him on eight-over.
Ireland's Padraig Harrington, winner of the British Open and PGA Championship last year, must produce something special on his remaining three holes to avoid missing the cut.
He was still on two-over par for the tournament after shooting an even par round through 15 holes on Friday.
(Reporting by Simon Evans; editing by Justin Palmer and Ken Ferris)

Source: Reuters