Rain plagues U.S. Women's Open

The result is after three days, almost 12 total hours of delays and only 36 holes of play, Japan's Mika Miyazato is 5 under and one shot in front of Japan's Ai Miyazato. South Korea's I.K. Kim is two back.
To underline the head-scratching theme of this USGA championship, Mika and Ai Miyazato, both from Okinawa, are not related.
"Everybody thinks we're sisters," Mika said. "But we are not."
After this week, the entire field will likely share a sisterhood. The first round finished on the second day. The second round carried over into the third day. Friday's 36-hole cut was finally made mid-afternoon Saturday -- followed quickly by another suspension that eventually ended the day.
In an effort to try to meet Sunday's scheduled finish, play will begin on both nines at 6:45 a.m. and golfers will not be repaired for the final round.
"A lot of golf (Callaway Legacy Forged Irons 2011)to go," Karrie Webb said.
Some players this week have started days facing 36 holes. Others have arrived early morning to resume an incomplete round after sleeping on the thought of a buried bunker shot.
Mika Miyazato played one hole of her second round with Callaway Legacy Forged Irons 2011Friday, then returned to face 35 Saturday. Weather stopped her 18 short.
"I went back to the hotel [Friday], three-hour nap, then eat lunch," she said. "Then back to hotel again. Used Internet. Then came to the golf course, but delay."
The 21-year-old, second-year LPGA player didn't let it bother her. She returned Saturday morning and made five birdies and one bogey in shooting 67. Ai Miyazato handled the day with a 68. Kim shot 69.
Others have not managed the on-the-fly challenge as well.
"Opens are just so hard ... just playing golf by Callaway Legacy Forged Irons 2011," said Paula Creamer, even par and five back after a second-round 70.
More than the golf course, this week's chief challenge has been the weird combination of down time or double time.
Look what it did to Stacy Lewis. After being washed out on Thursday, the American faced 36 holes Friday. At one point during the day she was 5 under and had a three-shot lead. But a weather delay added time to the already daunting day.
Darkness stopped Lewis after 34 holes, just as she had gone double-bogey, bogey, par.
Early Saturday, still aching and angry at herself, Lewis came back to finish two holes by Callaway Legacy Forged Irons 2011 -- adding another bogey. She is 1 under and four shots back.
"Yeah, I'm pretty disappointed with the way I played the last five or six holes," Lewis said. "I mean, I felt awful last night. I didn't feel much better when I woke up."
The good news: Lewis still has time to fight back.
"Yeah, my caddie is like, 'You're in it; we still got two more days.' Well, two more rounds. Who knows how many more days it will be?"
Cristie Kerr, ranked No. 2 in the world, understands.
During Thursday's opening round, Kerr had just recorded back-to-back birdies to go 2 under with just three holes to play by Callaway Legacy Forged Irons 2011. She was in a greenside bunker on her 16th when rain and lightning halted play for the day.
The next morning, Kerr returned, misfired on the bunker shot for bogey, then followed with another. She hasn't been able to climb back onto the leaderboard.
"I think the rain delay hurt me a bit," Kerr said. "Especially waiting overnight for the rain delay, and a long bunker shot to a tough pin is not how you want to come back.
"But that's the hand I got dealt. My first swing of the day, [I] didn't make a good swing and had a bad bounce. [I] had about as difficult an up-and-down as you can have on this golf course."
Of course, the tournament is still young.