Harrington in touch with US PGA
leaders on weather-hit first day

FROM THE AOL GOLF NEWS SERVICE
Repeating Open champion Padraig Harrington remained in touch with first-round co-leaders Robert Karlsson and Jeev Milka Singh after a frustrating, weather-delayed opening 71 at the 90th US PGA championship.
Harrington's one-over-par score at Oakland Hills left him three shots off the lead at the end of a round cut short for the day because of nightfall, with 18 players still to finish.
Earlier, the round had been suspended for 1hr 25min as rain and forecasts of lightning brought around a third of the field off the course.
Karlsson and Milka Singh were safely in the clubhouse, having made the early running with opening rounds of two-under-par 68, one stroke clear of Sergio Garcia and American trio Sean O'Hair, Ken Duke and Billy Mayfair.
Argentina's Andres Romero was also two under, having played 16 holes of his first round - and he and the others still to finish will resume at 8am local time (1pm BST), with the rest of the field set to begin their scheduled second rounds on time.
Sweden's Karlsson, a top-10 finisher in each of the first three majors of 2008, bounced back from an opening double-bogey at the par-four first hole to birdie five of the next seven holes - and he added another at the 11th, before bogeys at the par-four 14th and 15th holes sent him back to two under for his round.
Among those yet to complete their opening rounds were South Africa's Retief Goosen and American Jonathan Byrd, who both shared the lead at three under before bogeying the eighth and 17th holes respectively.
Anthony Kim, a two-time PGA Tour winner in his second season, returned from a disappointing Bridgestone Invitational to card a level-par 70 - two shots off the lead and in a large group of players also including world number two and 2005 champion Phil Mickelson, the bookmakers' 10-1 pre-tournament favourite in the absence of defending champion Tiger Woods.

FIRST ROUND SCOREBOARD
++Eighteen players still to complete rounds.
Par 70
68 Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind), Robert Karlsson (Swe)
69 Sergio Garcia (Spa), Sean O'Hair, Billy Mayfair, Ken Duke
70 Charlie Wi (Kor), Phil Mickelson, Michael Allen, Anthony Kim, Rodney Pampling (Aus), Brian Gay, Ryan Moore
71 Steve Stricker, Aaron Baddeley (Aus), Peter Hanson (Swe), Frank Esposito, Jim Furyk, Richard Green (Aus), Briny Baird, Carl Pettersson (Swe), Nicholas Thompson
72 Paul Casey (Eng), Boo Weekley, John Mallinger, D.J. Trahan
73 Pat Perez, Steve Flesch, Geoff Ogilvy (Aus), Simon Dyson (Eng), Steve Marino, Niclas Fasth (Swe), Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa), Alastair Forsyth (Sco), Rich Beem
74 Tim Weinhart, Graeme McDowell (NIrl), Steve Lowery, Tom Lehman, Nick O'Hern (Aus), Peter Lonard (Aus), Daniel Chopra (Swe), Justin Leonard, Paul Goydos, Camilo Villegas (Col)
75 Richard S Johnson (Swe), Corey Pavin, Stewart Cink, Darren Clarke (NIrl), Don Yrene
76 Hennie Otto (Rsa), Zach Johnson, Colin Montgomerie (Sco), Kevin Sutherland, Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa), Todd Hamilton, Parker McLachlin, Peter Hedblom (Swe), J J Henry, Robert Allenby (Aus), Prayad Marksaeng (Tha), Tim Clark (Rsa)
77 Ryan Benzel, Ross Fisher (Eng), Charl Schwartzel (Rsa), Bart Bryant, Davis Love III, Lee Westwood (Eng), Mark Brown, Brad Martin, Hiroyuki Fujita (Jpn)
78 Steve Webster (Eng), Vaughn Taylor, Rick Leibovich, Oliver Wilson (Eng), Greg Kraft, Sonny Skinner, Chez Reavie, Curt Sanders, KJ Choi (Kor), Jeffrey W Martin
79 Jerry Kelly
80 David Long, Ryuji Imada (Jpn), Pablo Larrazabal (Spa), Scott Hebert
81 Tim Thelen, Hunter Mahan, Mathew Goggin (Aus), Jeff Quinney
83 Cliff Kresge
86 Bradley Dean
87 Eric Dugas