Tiger Woods leads by three shots entering the completion of the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Monday. He has 16 holes to play. (Photo: John Raoux, AP) ORLANDO — Tiger Woods is 41-2 when he leads after 54 holes. How about 56 holes? That's where we stand Monday entering the completion of the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational, suspended Sunday when a storm whipped across Orlando, with lightning, rain and 50-mph winds. LEADERBOARD: Arnold Palmer Invitational Woods finished two holes before the storm on Sunday, making birdie at No. 2 to get to 12 under par and extend his lead to three shots. BAY HILL: Storm suspends final round If Woods can wrap this one up, he will finalize some pretty impressive numbers: 77 ... PGA Tour victories, five behind all-time leader Sam Snead. 42-2 ... His record when he has the lead entering the final round. 8 ... Titles at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. 3 ... Victories in 2013. 1 ... His world ranking, the first time he will be at the top since Oct. 30, 2010. Players continue play at 10 a.m. Golf Channel will broadcast the completion of the final round live. Woods has won twice this year, at Torrey Pines and Doral, and in both of those he built big leads entering the final round, largely by driving it accurately and being on target with his irons. This week it has been the putter. He hit only 22 of 42 fairways through the first 54 holes, but he made 17 of 18 putts within 20 feet. Here is a look at the current leaderboard: Tiger Woods, -12 (through 2) Keegan Bradley, -9 (4) Ken Duke, -9 (4) John Huh, -9 (2) Rickie Fowler, -9 (2) Mark Wilson, -8 (5) Brian Stuard, -8 (5) Thorbjorn Olesen, -8 (3) Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano, -8 (3) Justin Rose, -8 (2) This is the third time this year that a Tour event did not finish on Sunday. The Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines, which Woods won, was delayed until Monday because of fog, and high wind forced the season-opening Hyundai Tournament of Champions in Hawaii to a Tuesday finish. "We've dealt with this before," Woods said. "This is part of playing outside. We've got to deal with conditions like this." Woods led by two shots after 54 holes. And just for the record, here are the two times he didn't close it out: 1996 Quad City Classic: Woods had a one-shot lead on Ed Fiori heading into the final round and tied for fifth. Woods shot 72. 2009 PGA Championship: Woods had a two-shot lead on Y.E. Yang and finished second. Woods shot 75. GALLERY: GOLF'S WORLD NO. 1s Why didn't they tee off earlier on Sunday? "We just got unlucky with the weather," said Mark Russell, the PGA Tour's vice president of competition. "That micro burst on the radar was about the size of a pinhead, but it hit us directly. Then, we got that little train situation, where if we had been 30 miles north or 30 miles south, we might have been OK." Russell said the tour, tournament officials and NBC Sports were involved in the decision to start on time. One reason to roll the dice might have been that final pairing of Woods and Fowler, Red vs. Orange, with the emphasis on Woods going for his PGA Tour record-tying eighth win at Bay Hill that would have returned him to No. 1 in the world for the first time since the last week of October in 2010. "If we played early, it was going to be a tape-delay situation. People were going to know who won before it came on television, so it defeats our television partners," he said. "They wanted to take a chance. They've been involved in several situations where we played early and it didn't rain. It was just unfortunate." Contributing: The Associated Press Story Highlights
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