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GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Jeff Maggert birdied his final hole Saturday morning to join Ryan Moore and Chris Riley atop the leaderboard through two rounds of the weather-delayed Wyndham Championship.

They were at 11-under 129 in the PGA Tour's last event before the playoffs.

The third round was scheduled to begin later Saturday. Round 2 was halted Friday night due to darkness with 28 players left on the course as tour officials play catch-up after a four-hour weather delay Thursday.

Maggert birdied the par-4 No. 18, hitting his approach shot 13 feet from the flagstick and rolling in the putt.

A total of 87 players made the cut of 2-under.

"I'm playing this golf course different than a lot of other guys," Riley said of the Donald Ross-designed layout at Sedgefield Country Club.

"The rough's pretty thick, so I'm just trying to keep the ball in the fairway," he added. "I don't mind hitting a 2-iron or a 7-iron or a 3-wood ... compared to guys hitting driver and missing fairways."

Sergio Garcia had two eagles during his 64 and joined 18-hole leader Bill Haas (69) and Chez Reavie (67) at 131. Kevin Stadler (63), Marc Leishman (65), Boo Weekley (67), Johnson Wagner (66) and Fred Couples (66) were at 132.

Riley, who finished 15 holes of Round 1 before play was called due to darkness, completed that round Friday morning before turning around and hitting the course again during his long day at Sedgefield.

Using his driver only a handful of times in favor of his hybrid club and his 3-wood, he was bogey-free the second time around and birdied four of his final six holes. That included consecutive birdies to close the round -- highlighted by an impressive uphill chip on No. 18 that rolled in from 13 yards out.

The former UNLV player arrived in Greensboro on the FedEx Cup playoff bubble at No. 129 on the points list. But now, after his best 36-hole start of the season, he moved into contention for his second top-10 finish of the year -- and possibly even his second career PGA Tour victory, and first since the 2002 Reno-Tahoe Open.

"I just step onto the tee and see what [club] feels the best," Riley said, adding that partners Kent Jones and Mathias Gronberg "were giving me some looks. They were like, 'What are you doing?' I'm like, 'I'm just putting it in play.' "

Later, he chuckled, adding that, "I don't care what they think."

Moore -- who shared the lead with Reavie and Brandt Snedeker on Thursday night when it became too dark to continue the first round -- started the second round on the back nine and finished strong with consecutive birdies on Nos. 4-6. Play was suspended after he sank a 2½-foot par putt on No. 17.

Garcia, who came to Sedgefield at No. 115 on the points list and looking for a push, used the same formula for both of his second-round eagles, following his drives on Nos. 5 and 15 with 5-iron shots that set up makeable putts.

"The course was there for the taking," Garcia said. "There's only one thing that you need to do to make the course harder, and it's not to grow the rough or make the fairways narrower or anything like that. ... The toughest courses we play are ones where the greens are firm and fast, and that's where things happen. If you have a course where the greens are not too big, and the weather needs to help, but you manage to get them firm and fast, that's it."

Haas, the son of nine-time winner Jay Haas, brought a strong local flavor to the top of the leaderboard. The Charlotte native who played collegiately at nearby Wake Forest -- his uncle still coaches the Demon Deacons' golf team -- had a 26-hole marathon Friday, finishing the final eight of his career-best 62 in the first round before returning to the course for a second go-round.

"Any time you can make a cut is good, and to be 9-under par after two rounds is even better," said Haas, who missed the cut in 12 of his previous 22 tournaments. "If you're not confident, you're not going to play well. There's nobody that says, 'I didn't have it this week, and I won.' Tiger [Woods], maybe, with his 'C' game, can win. He's still confident."

Reavie briefly moved to 10 under before his second shot on No. 18 found the bunker and he two-putted for bogey to drop two strokes back.

Justin Thomas, a 16-year-old from Kentucky, started on the back nine and briefly moved within two strokes of the lead early during his 72 that was marred by a double bogey on the par-3 No. 7. That left him at 3 under, and he stands to become the third-youngest player in PGA Tour history to make a cut; the projected cutline was 2 under.

Thomas played his way into the field with a sponsor's exemption after winning the AJGA's FootJoy Invitational here earlier this year.

"It was cool seeing my name" near the top of the leaderboard, Thomas said. "Then again, I was kind of disappointed knowing I was that close and had that bad [final nine holes]."

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