Leona Maguire responds as Kim A-Lim moves to the top

Leona Maguire looked set to just make the cut at the light-affected Chevron Championship after a fine second-round 69.

The Cavan golfer had started the first major of the season in poor fashion, carding a first-round 76, but a three-under-par score should see her finish a stoke inside the cut-line with a few stragglers set to complete their second rounds on Saturday after play was called due to fading light.

Amongst those was the struggling Stephanie Meadow, who at four-over and just three holes remaining – the seventh, eighth and ninth – was requiring a miracle finish.

South Korea's Kim A-Lim posted the round of the week to jump to the top of the leaderboard at Houston's The Club at Carlton Woods.

Kim, who won the 2020 US Open at another Houston area layout the Champions Club, returned a seven-under 65 to sit one clear of Americans Lilia Vu and Megan Khang.

With the start of second round play delayed by two hours due to torrential overnight rain, golfers scrambled to complete their rounds.

But 31 players eventually surrendered to the darkness, including Canada's Brooke Henderson, who was just off the 18th green three off the lead and opted to return early Saturday to complete the round while her playing partners putted out.

"It was really, really dark," said Henderson, the world number seven.

"I'm just over the back. That was fine enough to see, but around the greens I needed a little bit more light to make sure, because I want to take advantage of this opportunity to make birdie."

For much of the day Vu, who was out in the morning wave, sat alone atop the leaderboard with no one able to better her midway total of seven-under 137.

Kim did not look like the one to knock Vu from her perch after a bogey on her opening hole but kept