Barnes storms into US Open lead

PGA Tour rookie Ricky Barnes posted the target to shoot for at the rain-hit US Open halfway mark as Tiger Woods began his second round hoping to beat approaching storms and the halfway cut.

Barnes, the 2002 US Amateur champion who earned his tour card this year after six years as a professional, shot a five-under-par second-round 65 in the best of the conditions playing back-to-back rounds yesterday and this morning at Bethpage Black.