AUGUSTA, Georgia — There was plenty of electricity around Augusta National today, and not just because of the lurking thunderstorms that suspended play for about an hour with eight groups still on the course.

When they returned, they found a soft, windless course and took advantage of it to fashion a rather historic leaderboard by any standard.

For the first time ever, five players are tied for the lead after 36 holes in a major, each at 7-under: first-round co-leader Brooks Koepka, Jason Day, 2013 Masters champion Adam Scott, Louis Oosthuizen, and Francesco Molinari.

See a similarity? Each owns hardware earned by winning a major.

(Hang on. We’re not finished.)

There are more major championships in second place. We’re looking at you, Dustin Johnson (68-70), a single stroke back, and at you, Tiger Woods (70-68), winner of 14 majors. Also at 6-under are Justin Harding, a 33-year-old South African who’s posted a pair of 69s, and Xander Schauffele, who went 33-32 Friday for a 65, low round of the day.

Let’s go to the golf blotter and see how the leaders worked themselves up this star-studded scoreboard.

Koepka, the two-time major winner who shared the opening round lead at 68 with Bryson DeChambeau, birdied 18 to finish 1-under on the day and answered a double-bogey on 2 with a birdie on 3.

“I feel no matter how bad I’m playing, no matter what’s going on, I’ll be able to figure it out,” he said. “I really get excited. I know it doesn’t look like it, but I’m always excited to get to the grounds and be there and ready to tee it up.”

Day, the hero of people with bad backs the world over, has battled the problem since he was a teenager. Thursday, moments before going to the No. 1 tee box, he bent over to kiss his young daughter and his back went out. (Women!) But he’s limped around more than adequately.

“My wife told me to suck it up,” Day said. “She’s given birth to three children and all I do is play golf so…”

So, he sucked it up. It hasn’t been Willis Reed hobbling onto the court to lift the Knicks over the Lakers in Game 7 of the ’70 Finals, but it’s been a pretty gutsy performance on a special stage;

And here’s Scott, who’s shot a 69-68, and the Friday round would have been better had he not missed true birdie putts on 11 and 14 and three-putted 16. But that was after an eagle on 15 so…he shares the lead legitimately.

Oosthuizen opened with a 1-under 71 and followed it with a 66 Friday, second-best round of the day. King Louie’s coming off a pair of Top 5 finishes this season and was a playoff runner-up to Bubba Watson here in 2012.

And finally the Low Italian so far, Molinari, is the most unknown of the bunch, but not to golf fans. He’s ranked No. 7 in the world, won the British Open in 2018 and finished second at Quail Hollow in the 2017 PGA.

“He’s a major winner, he’s won multiple events, and the form he’s been in the last two years is quite incredible,” said England’s Ian Poulter, 43 and hanging around at minus-5, as is 48-year-old Phil Mickelson at minus-4. “He’s raised his game from an all-around perspective and he’s mentally stronger than what he was in the past. So he’s got the whole package.”

Scott, Oosthuizen, Woods and Schauffele were all on the course after the brief weather cell passed, and they made the favorable conditions count.

The last time play was suspended on a Friday at Augusta National was in 2005, when Woods, 43, won the most recent of his four Masters. And at times in the second round, Woods did very 2005-Woods-like things, like slam dunking a long putt on 9 for a birdie (35 on the front), like hitting it to 6-feet on 12 (missed the putt), lasering an iron through the trees down the right side on No. 14 to 10 feet from the pin where he made birdie, as he did on 15.

He had putts to take the lead and just missed a pair. The roars were familiar.

Speaking of the more veteran set, leading the Old Dudes On Parade, Pure Age Division, is two-time Masters champion Bernhard Langer, 61 and about as destructible as a shot put; he’s won 39 times on the Champions Tour. He’s 1-under, a stroke better than fellow two-time champ Bubba Watson and tied with Patrick Reed, the defending champion. Langer and caddie Terry Holt have a combined age of 101.

“Yeah, (experience) helps, but it doesn’t make up for hitting five more shots into every green than somebody else, you know? I’m hitting a 4-iron and they’re hitting a 9-iron. I’d rather hit a 9-iron and have a little less experience.”

Poulter and Mickelson know about experience too. As does Woods. They’ve got it.

But there are younger legs with lower scores in front of them. A lot of them. And right behind them too.

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