Former Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama carded a second successive 65 to take a one-stroke lead on the midway level of the season-opening PGA Tour occasion in Hawaii.
The Sentry options 31 PGA Tour winners and 29 gamers who completed inside the highest 50 within the FedEx Cup standings final 12 months.
The 32-year-old from Japan made eight birdies in his spherical to carry a slim benefit at Kapalua over one other main winner, Collin Morikawa.
The American, who gained the 2020 US PGA Championship and The Open the next 12 months, shot a 65 thanks to 5 successive birdies from the thirteenth.
“I am undoubtedly happy with the place I’m,” stated Matsuyama.
“Clearly the views are stunning right here. I have not performed nicely right here shortly, so it is good to get off to a very good begin.”
Morikawa might have completed the day degree with Matsuyama however needed to be content material with a par on the 18th.
“I simply hit some high quality pictures and gave myself a run of birdie alternatives,” he stated.
“I felt like for all the again 9 I had birdie seems to be. Clearly I made a handful, but it surely was simply good to see a pair drop.”
American Maverick McNealy equalled the bottom spherical of the day with a 64 to maneuver to a shot behind Morikawa on 14 beneath alongside Canada’s Corey Conners, Thomas Detry of Belgium and first-round chief Tom Hoge of the US.
England’s Harry Corridor birdied 4 of his final 5 holes on his solution to a 65 that took him into a gaggle an additional shot again that additionally contains US Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley and former US Open champion Wyndham Clark, who each carded 64s.
