Sergio Garcia's bid for the win that would seal his sixth Ryder Cup cap was delayed by bad weather in Greensboro, North Carolina tonight.
Garcia, without a victory in America for four years, led the Wyndham Championship by one with 14 holes remaining when play at an already-saturated Sedgefield Country Club was suspended because of more heavy rain.
The hold-up came at 3.10pm local time and as greenkeeping staff did what they could to improve conditions it was announced that play would not restart before 6pm.
That made it near certain that the round would spill into Monday.
Garcia, needing a top-three finish to move back into a qualifying position for next month's match in Chicago, was one ahead overnight and moved to 15 under par with a tee shot to five feet on the short third.
South African Tim Clark twice caught him with birdies at the second and fourth, but then ran up a bogey six at the long next to fall back alongside American pair Jason Dufner and Bud Cauley.
Garcia was just short of the green in two on the par five when officials brought the players off the course.
Belgian Nicolas Colsaerts, also in with a chance of automatic selection for Europe, moved from 17th into a tie for fourth by going to the turn in a three under 32, but a bogey at the par three 12th saw him slip back to joint ninth.
Unlike Garcia, Colsaerts is also playing the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles starting on Thursday. That is the final counting event before 10 players qualify and captain Jose Maria Olazabal adds two wild cards.
It was hoped to resume play at 5pm at first and the players went onto the driving range to prepare for that, but were then told that the course was not ready. A total of 2.2 inches of rain had fallen in the last 24 hours.
