Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. ? Lee Westwood and Joe Durant ordinarily would be in ideal position at The Players Championship, tied for the lead and likely in the last group to tee off this afternoon.

All that got them was rest in what continued to shape up as a bizarre week.

Thirty players who thought they were going to resume the second round Saturday morning instead had to erase their scores and start over so everyone could lift, clean and place their balls in the soggy fairways.

It was so sloppy and slippery that two golf carts slid down a hill and into a pond, although both drivers jumped out before their buggies took a plunge. Then came another three-hour rain delay.

There eventually was the kind of golf everyone expects on the TPC at Sawgrass: good and bad.

Durant tied the back-nine record with a 30 for a 7-under 65, while Westwood overcame a double bogey early in his round for a 69 that left them atop the leaderboard when darkness suspended the second round.

The question wasn’t who was leading, but what day it was.

Seventy-one players, including Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, were expected to return at 7:30 a.m. today to finish the second round. That all but assured the third Monday finish in The Players Championship in the last six years, and that’s assuming more rain doesn’t push it to Tuesday.

“The weather is better in England at the moment,” Westwood said.

Lee Westwood tries to coax a putt into the hole on the 18th green. Westwood shared the lead Saturday at Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.

Westwood and Durant get to sleep in, knowing that their two-day score of 10-under 134 will put them in good shape.

Zach Johnson made two double bogeys, including a tee shot into the water on the 18th hole, for a 2-under 70 that left him one shot behind.

Others who finished were defending champion Adam Scott (68) and Fred Funk (72), who were at 7-under 137.

Steve Jones, who opened with a 64 and then waited 50 hours before hitting another shot, also was at 10 under halfway through his second round. Luke Donald of England was 9 under through 13 holes.

Vijay Singh was working his way up the leaderboard when he pumped two tee shots into the water on the 18th hole and made a quadruple-bogey 8, sending him to a 74 and leaving him at least seven shots behind at 3-under 141.