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The Gog Blog by Rory Spears, Editor and Director of Content. Follow Rory on Facebook, Linkedin, and Twitter @GogBlogGuy. At the 115th U.S. Amateur at Olympia Fields Country Club.

The second day of play is not over at the 115th U.S. Amateur at Olympia Fields. Weather delays have affected the tournament again, and are keeping Director of Grounds Sam McKenzie and his team of 75-80 workers busy.

Round 1 did get completed on Monday, but some rain did fall during the round. the heavy stuff held off until just after round 1 got completed. As a result of clean up time needed on Tuesday, round 2 started 90 minutes late.

Those 90 minutes turned out to be the difference between getting round 2 complete. Play was called due to darkness at 7:13 PM and the round 2 is expected to resume at 7:30 Am. However after that time was set, heavy rains blew into the Chicago area. Depending on how much rain the course got after darkness set in, there could be a delay on Wednesday morning. After Round 2 gets complete, there is likely to be a playoff for the final spots into the field of 64 for the match play.

Currently +3 seems to be the score needed to get into playoff, +2 should allow a player to advance.

Olympia North Hole 3, or for the Amateur it plays as Championship Hole 12.

The leader in the clubhouse is Brett Coletta from Australia who shot 67-66 and looks like a lock to be the No.1 seed. He sits at 133 or 7 under par.

David Oraee is shot back at 134, with Lee McCoy heading up a group of 3 players at 136 (-4).

From the local area, its been a mixed bag of results. Doug Ghim of Arlington Hts., backed up his opening round of 76 with an even par round of 70, but it’s not enough. The same fate fell on Nick Hardy of Northbrook, the University of Illinois Sophomore opened with a 68 on Monday, but fell back with a 77 on Tuesday to miss the cut by 2 shots. David Stringfellow of Roselle missed the cut by 2 shots. Heading home early will be the Wisconsin team of University of Illinois Senior Charlie Danielson, and Jordan Niebrugge, Danielson 4 shots out of the playoff, Niebrugge 3 shots out. Nathan Smith of Pittsburgh who won the U.S. Mid-Amateur at Conway Farms in 2012, also missed the cut.

On the plus side.Illinois Open Champion David Cooke from Bolingbrook was stick around, he’s at 1 over par and safely inside the cut line, where he is joined by Alex Burge from Bloomington Illinois and a member of the University of Illinois golf team. Burge is at even par. Long time Illinois top amateur player Todd Mitchell is not done with his round, but is in good position to make the cut. With only a couple of holes left to play.

Click here to hear Interviews with in order, Jordan Niebrugge, Alex Burge and David Cooke.

The Gog Blog will have coverage of the 115th US Amateur all week long from Olympia Fields. On Wednesday see our recap of British Open Champion Zach Johnson’s visit to Wrigley Field.