SHEBOYGAN, Wis. - Tiger Woods ate breakfast three times before he teed off in the first round of the PGA Championship. It was time for dinner when his second round began Friday.
Bubba Watson walked off Whistling Straits atop the leaderboard after opening with a 68. He waited 30 hours for his next shot.
And then there's Nick Watney.
"I was talking with my caddie this afternoon, and we were talking about something that happened this morning," he said. "But we both thought it was yesterday. So it's been a long day. I'll have no trouble sleeping tonight and wake up tomorrow and see where we're at."
Not much is clear in the final major of the year.
At least not yet.
After two days - but not two full rounds - Matt Kuchar was atop the leaderboard after another rock-solid round on a soft course. He nearly holed out from the 13th fairway again during a stretch of three straight birdies that led to a 3-under 69.
Kuchar was at 8-under 136, one shot ahead of Watney, who had a 68.
"Not too much trouble to report in two rounds," said Kuchar, explaining the key to success in just about any major.
The only trouble was sleep. Kuchar woke up at 4 a.m. to get to the course and resume his second round at 7 a.m. But while it was clear on the practice range, it was soon tough to see the clubhouse 200 yards away, and players had to wait 2 1/2 hours to start. Kuchar made birdie on his first hole - the sixth - to take the lead, finished up his 67, had a quick lunch and played the second round.
"Sitting around right now, it's nice to be done," said Kuchar, who left the course about 12 hours after he arrived.
Woods finally teed off at 5:45 p.m., leaving him enough time to play six holes and make six pars.
Only they sure weren't routine.
He had to scramble for par off a cart path, out of grass up to his knees and from a grassy knoll that made it tough for him to keep his balance. After the siren sounded to suspend play, Woods opted to finish the sixth hole. He chipped out of deep grass below the green and left himself a 5-foot birdie putt that spun 270 degrees around the cup and sent him home somber.
"Had to hang in there, and did a good job with that," Woods, who remained at 1 under, told a PGA official.
The fog played havoc on the starting times. Whistling Straits delivered its own share of misery, too, starting with European Ryder Cup captain Colin Montgomerie. He played in the same group with Kuchar and was 26 shots worse over two rounds, going 78-83.
Phil Mickelson took some unusual routes from tee-to-green, although some of his misses were so big that he wound up in the gallery, where the grass had been trampled. Mickelson carries extra gloves in his bag for souvenirs when he hits a fan, and he handed one out on the 15th hole, complete with a frown sign inside the "o" in "Sorry."
No apologies were necessarily when he scrambled his way to a 69, putting him at 2-under 142 and still very much alive in his quest to move to No. 1 in the world for the first time.