Tiger Woods still thinks he can win the US Open even though he will need to equal the record for the greatest 36-hole comeback to do so.
Hardly any of the third round has been played due to torrential rain, and it is now certain that play will not be finished until Monday at the earliest as the rain continues at Bethpage.
Woods' 69 in Saturday's second round left him eleven behind leader Ricky Barnes but he feels if he starts holing more putts he has a fighting chance of overhauling him.
"The putts I hit well didn't go in and the putts I hit poorly weren't even close," he said.
"I need to make a few more putts. And get it rolling."
Woods feels that his overall score has suffered unduly because of his putting.
"Unfortunately, my score doesn't reflect how I've been playing. But you never know. I've got 36 more holes over the next, probably three days.
"It's one of those things where if I keep plugging along just like any US Open, make a birdie here and there, we'll see where it ends up."
Woods felt the hardest thing to deal with was the wet greens.
"The frustrating thing is you have to hit the putt so hard... the greens are so bumpy and so slow," he said.
"They're getting slower and slower. You don't want to give it a little too much and run it past the hole because you know how bumpy it is coming back.
"It's hard to make yourself hit the putts that hard considering this is a US Open. Generally they're pretty quick. But it is one of those things. You have to make the adjustments."
Incidentally, Lou Graham holds the record for the greatest 36-hole comeback. He came back from 11 shots behind to win in Medinah in 1975.