Arjun Atwal shot a one-over 71 and safely ensured passage into the weekend round at the Travelers Golf Championship in stormy weather conditions, which forced a short suspension of play in the afternoon, here on Friday.
Atwal, who had a 68 in first round, is now tied 34th at one-under 139, seven shots behind the leaders.
The cut would be a welcome return to form for Atwal, who has been finding things difficult this season after failing to make the top-125 in Money List in 2006.
Atwal had three birdies, including back-to-back efforts on fifth and sixth and four bogeys including one late on seventh as he finished on ninth after starting on the 10th in gusty wind and rain at the TPC River Highlands Course in Connecticut.
This year after making the cut in his first appearance at the AT & T Pebble Beach National pro-Am in February, he missed the next five cuts.
David Toms, a former PGA Champion but now 20th in world rankings, was tied for lead with Jay Williamson (66) at eight-under-par 132. The most attractive part of Toms' play was an eagle from the fairway when he holed a second shot with a wedge from just under 80 yards.
Meanwhile, Daniel Chopra, who carded a 69 in first round, had to withdraw during the second round as he was unable to continue after 13 holes because of illness.

Randhawa soars
Jyoti Randhawa did what Jeev Milkha Singh did in the opening round, carding an impressive three-under 69 in tough conditions to jump to tied 23rd spot while his more famous compatriot let the momentum slip with an even par round to be tied 40th after the second round of the BMW International Open, reports UNI from Munich.
All the three Indians in contention did well to make the cut and progress to the weekend action.
Both birdied the 18th hole, but while Randhawa helped himself to five birdies against two bogeys, Jeev could come up with only three birdies against an equal number of bogeys.
Tied 21st overnight, Jeev failed to produce the the impressive show of the first round when he carded an impressive three-under 69.
Randhawa, starting at tied 29th, on the other hand had a less eventful outing as he shot into contention for a top-ten finish, lying seven strokes behind leaderboard topper Niclas Fasth (Sweden), who leads the chasing pack with an two-day aggregate score of 12-under 132, followed by countrymate Peter Hanson at 10-under 130.  Shiv Kapur improved to tied 52nd spot with an even par round from tied at 61st overnight.