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GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Sergio Garcia and Chris Riley shared the lead at 15 under entering the final round of the rain-plagued Wyndham Championship.

Garcia finished his 64 on Sunday morning and Riley completed his 66 to remain atop the leaderboard through 54 holes. Bill Haas (66) was two strokes back, and Brandt Snedeker (65), Justin Rose (65), Michael Allen (65), Kevin Stadler (66) and Steve Marino were at 198.

Garcia and Riley also shared the clubhouse lead at 13 under Saturday night when play was halted due to darkness with all but 24 players still on the course.

The event at Sedgefield Country Club seemed to have gotten back on track after three weather delays in three days combined to stop play for roughly 9½ hours. The final round was to start later Sunday morning.

"These are tough weeks," Riley said. "Seems like we've been doing this all year but, you know, going to bed at 10 [p.m.] and waking up at 5 [a.m.] to play golf ... we're athletes. So I guess we can do it."

During yet another long day Saturday with abbreviated play at the Donald Ross-designed course at Sedgefield -- where two weather delays combined to last nearly 5½ hours -- there were a few highlights.

Marino, who started the round six strokes off the pace, had seven birdies to vault up the leaderboard -- including one on the par-3 No. 16 in which his tee shot landed 7 inches from the flagstick. He shot 63 to move to 198, and was one of 24 players to finish the round.

"We were talking about it when we went back out on [No. 14], if we were going to make it or not," Marino said. "We knew it was going to be close. The guys in front of us motored and we made it. I'm really thrilled about that."

Fred Couples, the U.S. President's Cup captain who's still considering his final picks, birdied four of his first eight holes to move into contention for his first victory since 2003. And Rose had five birdies to rally after starting the round four strokes back.

But once again, the dominant story line at this stop-and-start tournament was the weather.

Play was halted twice during Day 3 because of heavy rains and lightning. After the second round was completed midmorning, the start of Round 3 was pushed back 2½ hours while a band of thunderstorms passed through.

Then, nearly four hours into the third round, everyone went for cover again while another wave of storms pelted the central North Carolina piedmont. Cups overflowed with water, fairways more closely resembled streams and power was briefly knocked out to the clubhouse during a television interview with Couples.

After a 2-hour, 49-minute delay -- the third weather-related suspension of the tournament -- play finally resumed for about an hour before dusk fell. Organizers already had been racing to play catch-up after a 4-hour delay during the first round.

"There was a lot of stopping and starting for everybody," Couples said.

Riley opened his round with an eagle on No. 1, using a 9-iron to knock his approach shot about 165 yards into the hole. After the delay, he ran a 55-foot eagle putt to within 3 feet on No. 5 and tapped it in for birdie.

The former UNLV player who's contending for his second top-10 finish of the year -- and second career PGA Tour victory -- shared the 36-hole lead with Maggert and Ryan Moore at 11-under 129.

Garcia caught Riley on the 10th -- he made a 33-foot birdie putt on that hole, while Riley missed a 10-foot par putt and tapped in for bogey. Garcia was standing over a 10-foot birdie putt on No. 11 when play was stopped for the day.

Standing in the way: A weather-created, 26-hole marathon Sunday for both Riley and Garcia. Then again, that's nothing new during this tournament for Riley -- who took his first lead Friday while playing 21 holes.

"It's what we play for -- definitely tests your ability of what you've been working on," Riley said. "Guys like Sergio [have] been there so many times it's probably just like playing golf to them. To guys like me, it's different."

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