Canada’s Nick Taylor heads a gaggle of 5 gamers on -9 and in a share of the lead on the Sony Open, the PGA Tour’s season opening occasion.
Nevertheless, the story of the event to this point is the play of 62-year-old three-time main winner Vijay Singh, who is thru to the weekend after making the reduce.
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Singh fired off scores of 68 and 70 to complete the second spherical at -2, seven photographs behind the leaders.
Singh, who’s enjoying in his first non-Masters occasion since 2021, cashed in a profession cash earnings exemption to win a full-time place on the Tour this 12 months.
The rule permits any former Tour participant who’s among the many high 50 all-time earners to regain full membership for one 12 months.
Singh’s determination to rejoin probably the most cutthroat golf tour on the planet, despite the fact that he’s been enjoying within the Champions Tour from 2017 and hasn’t made a PGA Tour reduce since 2020 (till this week), was met with criticism with those that thought Singh was taking the Tour card of a younger participant extra deserving.
“That is what occurs once you give into or give an excessive amount of energy to gamers,” outspoken golf broadcaster Brandel Chamblee wrote on social media.
“If the PGA Tour goes to assert to be a sport primarily based upon meritocracy, you’ll be able to’t permit gamers to monetise their performances of a decade or a long time in the past, by means of present exemptions.
“Sport should at all times reply the query: why are you right here relatively than another person? And the reply can by no means be as a result of I used to be nice ten or twenty years in the past.”
Adam Scott is the perfect of the Aussies in Honululu. He’s -3.
Cam Davis was the one different Australian within the subject however he missed the reduce (+2).
US Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley (E) and Tony Finau had been different huge names who did not progress to the weekend.