Henry "3 Shots Ahead in Second Round of Sony Open"... Im Sung-jae "Cut Off Upset"
PGA Tour 2022 Second Tournament Sony Open Round 2, Matsuyama Tied 5th, Kim Siwoo Tied 37th
Russell Henley cheers after making an eagle on the 9th hole on the second day of the Sony Open. Hawaii, USA = Getty Images/Multibits
View original image[Asia Economy Golf Specialist Reporter Kim Hyun-jun] "Two eagles."
Russell Henley (USA) continues his early surge. On the 15th (Korean time) at the Waialae Golf Club in Honolulu, Hawaii (par 70, 7,044 yards), the second day of the PGA Tour Sony Open (total prize money $7.5 million) ended with him adding 7 under par, instantly taking the top spot on the leaderboard (15 under par, 125 strokes). Li Haotong (China) is in second place (12 under par, 128 strokes), followed by Matt Kuchar in third (11 under par, 129 strokes). Defending champion Kevin Na (USA) struggled with 1 over par and dropped to a tie for 16th place (8 under par, 132 strokes).
Henley is the player who earned his third career win at the Shell Houston Open in April 2017. He has been anxious without a win for five years. Today, he combined two eagles, five birdies, and two bogeys. Starting with a birdie on the 10th hole (par 4), he made a bogey on the 16th hole (par 4), but holed out directly from a greenside bunker shot on the 9th hole (par 5). In the back nine, he made a bogey on the 1st hole (par 4), two pairs of consecutive birdies on the 4th-5th and 7th-8th holes, and finished with a ‘2-on 1-putt’ eagle on the 9th hole (par 5).
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‘Masters Champion’ Hideki Matsuyama (Japan) is chasing from a tie for 5th place (9 under par, 131 strokes). Jim Furyk (USA), 52, who showed ‘veteran fighting spirit’ with 8 under par including a hole-in-one on the first day, lost 2 strokes and remained tied for 37th place (6 under par, 134 strokes). Kim Si-woo (27) joined the tie for 37th, and Lee Kyoung-hoon (31) settled in a tie for 48th place (5 under par, 135 strokes). The ‘5th favorite to win’ Im Sung-jae (24) was surprisingly ‘cut off.’ It is his first cut miss in seven months since the Memorial Tournament last June.
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