But Davies sent her shot into water and Brewerton's 17th tee-shot landed among the trees.
Els wins the hole after Garcia lands his tee-shot in a ditch and is forced to drop a shot.
Garcia finds the sand with his tee-shot, then an untidy second lands in another bunker in front of the green.
Els makes the green with his tee-shot and then hits a stunning 30-foot birdie putt to go three up with eight holes to play.
Garcia concedes after landing his tee-shot in the trees and watching Els make the green in two, hitting his second to within 10 feet of the flag.
Garcia finds the green with his tee-shot off the 154 yard second - the shortest hole on the Wentworth course - but misses a 12-foot birdie putt.
He could have been sitting alone atop the leader-board if his tee-shot on 13 hadn't ended up on the pine straw and behind a tree 10 yards outside the fairway.
He managed to get to the green in two at the par-five eighth and 18th -- the latter after a 325-yard tee shot -- though he missed eagle putts at both.
At the closing hole, his 320-plus-yard tee shot was some 40 yards ahead of Matthews and Moul and one well-struck two iron later, McIlroy was on the green.
"That was rough, " Holmes said of his play-off tee shot which found the water.
But hopes of a straightforward victory for Els receded when his tee shot at the par-three 17th finished short and was plugged in an awful lie in the sand.
At 17 Mickelson found the beach and took a drop on the way to a bogey, while at 18 the left-hander's tee shot left him blocked by two trees.
Guan had a bogey at the par-3 second after his tee shot off the back of the green.
After a long drive off the tee, Lewis hit a 200-yard shot toward the pin that stopped about 5 inches short.
He was in second place, two shots back, when his tee shot on the long par-three hit the side of the bleachers and bounced back into the trees.
Hanson bogeyed two of the first three holes, and Mickelson suffered an excruciating triple bogey on the par-three fourth hole when his tee shot pinged off the spectator railing into a bamboo thicket.
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On the par-three 17th, his first tee shot flew into the water, and although his second stuck to the green he could not make a 30-footer and came away with a double bogey.
Broadhurst, who birdied five of the opening seven holes, opted for the driver from the final tee and hit a fine shot to the left-hand side of the fairway.
Only a handful of players made it out onto the course before play was suspended, with halfway leader Tiger Woods holding a two-shot advantage after 36 holes as he and most of the field waited for their new tee-off times.
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This one hurt far more because he had a two-shot lead when he stepped to the 16th tee.
John Daly once hit a tee shot off the top of a beer can during a pro-am.
He admitted that the par-five 13th was a turning point after fearing that his tee shot had landed in a water hazard.
Along with the fog at Torrey Pines, the Tournament of Championship at Kapalua didn't start until Monday because of unusually high wind, and the 54-hole event was completed some 29 hours after the opening tee shot.
There was another long delay on the par-3 16th after a gust of wind dunked Manassero's tee shot in the water.
Instead of hitting his third shot from the tee, he could reach the green for a two-putt par.
He birdied the sixth then picked up a superb eagle on the par-four seventh, holing with a seven iron after having again driven his tee shot into a bunker.
He hit nearly two out of three fairways (62.5%, or 35 out of 56) on the ultra-challenging Spanish layout with an impressive driving distance average of 293.4 yards per tee shot.
Always a tight shot through ever encroaching statuesque Georgia pines, the tee has been pushed back and the par-four hole measures an extra 60 yards compared to the 405-yarder the players faced in the early 1990s.
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