Atwal off to poor start, way down at 85th spot

Arjun Atwal had a poor start in the first round of the Barracuda Championship and was lying way down at 85th position with four holes still to go after the opening day's play was suspended due to bad weather.

Atwal had two birdies against three bogeys here.

Daniel Chopra was further down at 126th. He had one birdie, four bogeys and one double.

Barracuda Championship is the only PGA Tour event using a modified Stableford scoring system.

As per the modified Stableford format, players get eight points for albatross, five for eagle, two for birdie and zero for par, and subtracts a point for bogey and three for double bogey or worse.

Play was stopped at 5:10 p.m. because of lightning and then called off for the rest of the day.

Sweden's David Lingmerth had nine birdies to take the lead with 18 points at Montreaux Golf and Country Club.

Lingmerth is 229th in the FedExCup standings with only two weeks left to get into the top 125 for the first Playoff event. He has missed four straight cuts including shooting 79-63 last week in Kentucky in the Barbasol Championship.

Tyrone Van Aswegen, Robert Streb and Tom Hoge were tied for second with 13 points. Y.E. Yang, the 2009 PGA Championship winner, had 12 points. Bronson Burgoon was the top player still on the course. He had 10 points with five holes to play.

The winner gets a spot in the 2020 PGA Championship.