BETHESDA, June 15: Jeff Maggert took the US Open lead away from Tom Lehman yesterday, but the championship's second consecutive weather delay meant that the third-round leader would not be decided until this morning.Maggert caught second-round leader Lehman with four birdies in a flawless front-nine and then held on to a tenuous one-shot advantage as all his rivals struggled on a long, wet golf course after a two-hour rain delay late in the afternoon.``With the fog and haze you couldn't see the shots land. I never saw a shot land after play resumed,'' said Lehman, who bogeyed two of the five holes he played after the delay.While all the players had problems in the soggy conditions and fading light, the one who stumbled worst was young Tiger Woods, who showed little of the magic that won him the Masters in record fashion in April.Woods ended his long, frustrating day with four bogeys over the last five holes he played to stand eight shots behind Maggert going into the 17th hole, which he would have to play this morning.Maggert bogeyed one of the five holes he played after the two-hour suspension of play.He ended the day on Congressional Country Club's 14th hole one ahead of Lehman and two better than Colin Montgomerie - who recovered from a disastrous second round to get back into contention in his favourite tournament.Twenty-one players were still on the course when play was suspended for the day due to darkness.Jay Haas, who shot a two-under-par 68, was the third-round leader in the clubhouse with an even-par total of 210, one shot better than Billy Andrade and Jim Furyk, who birdied the 18th hole with a long putt to match Andrade's 69.The rain hit at about 5 o'clock, sending the 30,000 spectators scurrying for shelter, and play was suspended for just over two hours.When the players went back on the course - already the longest in Open history at 7,213 yards they encountered water-logged fairways and greens, which made the very demanding course play even tougher, especially in the fading light.All the players had trouble putting on the soggy greens - especially Woods, whose last three bogeys all came on three-putts.``When I did get on the green I couldn't get the pace of them, so I three-putted a lot,'' Woods said matter-of-factly. ``On greens this fast you have to have your speed.''
