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Who's leading The Players Championship after weather postponed Friday's second round end?

There's a new leaderboard after thunderstorms suspended The Players Championship at 4:27 p.m. Friday, still in the middle of the second round.

When 24 groups and 71 players resume their suspended second rounds at 7 a.m. Saturday, the leaderboard will have a very different look from Friday morning.

Christiaan Bezuidenhout and Adam Svensson are tied for the lead at 8-under, with portions of their second round still in progress.

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Christiaan Bezuidenhout

Score: 8-under.

Country: South Africa.

Last hole completed: No. 5 (currently on No. 6, four more to play).

World Golf Ranking: 81st

Best previous finish at The Players: 41st, 2021.

Adam Svensson

Adam Svensson walks off hole 18 finishing -4 on the day during the first round of The Players golf tournament Thursday, March 9, 2023 at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.
Adam Svensson walks off hole 18 finishing -4 on the day during the first round of The Players golf tournament Thursday, March 9, 2023 at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.

Score: 8-under.

Country: Canada.

Last hole completed: No. 2 (currently on No. 3, seven more to play).

World Golf Ranking: 57th.

Best previous finish at The Players: None (first-timer).

Who else is on the leaderboard?

Bezuidenhout and Svensson hold a two-stroke lead over Ben Griffin, Min Woo Lee and Collin Morikawa at 6-under. Griffin has completed his round, while Lee has four holes to play and Morikawa has seven.

At 5 under are Taylor Pendrith and Scottie Scheffler, while at 4 under are Will Gordon, Jason Day, Viktor Hovland, Denny McCarthy, Byeong Hun An, Chad Ramey and Adam Hadwin.

The third round is expected to begin around 10:40 a.m. Saturday.

This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: The Players Championship: Leaders after Friday second round postponed