Rose vows to battle on
Justin Rose failed to break 80 for the second day running in wet and windy conditions at Valderrama - just before play had to be suspended.
The holder of the title, out on his own again at the head of the 57-strong field, admitted he wished there was a halfway cut and he could go home after a 10-over-par 81 left him 19 over.
But although he knew the option of pulling out was still open to him, Rose then showed his class by stating: "No, that would be disrespectful. I will soldier on."
Only 81st on the Order of Merit, last year's number one owed his place in the event to a special exemption for the defending champion.
The decision to call off play just after midday came too late to save Miguel Angel Jimenez from almost certainly falling out of the Order of Merit race.
In a horror start to his round, Jimenez bogeyed the first and third, double-bogeyed the second and then ran up an eight on the long fourth. From two over he crashed to nine over.
Order of Merit leader Robert Karlsson saw it for himself as the Spaniard's playing partner, and by dropping only one shot over the same stretch he was, at three over, still in the driving seat.
The only other two players who can catch him are Lee Westwood and Padraig Harrington.
Westwood, among 10 players who had not yet teed off in the second round, was in joint fifth, but he also had to win, while Harrington, for whom second place could be good enough, was five over after playing 13 holes on Friday in level par.
