The Sentry: Hideki Matsuyama leads PGA Tour opener in Hawaii
2025-01-04
Category: sports

The Sentry second-round leaderboard-16 H Matsuyama (Jpn); -15 C Morikawa (US); -14 C Conners (Can), M McNealy (US), T Hoge (US), T Detry (Bel); -13 K Bradley (US), H Hall (Eng), C Young (US), W Clark (US)Selected others: -10 R MacIntyre (Sco); -9 A Scott (Aus); -8 M Fitzpatrick (Eng), P Cantlay (US); -7 A Rai (Eng); -4 X Schauffele (US)Full leaderboard
Former Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama carded a second successive 65 to take a one-stroke lead at the halfway point of the season-opening PGA Tour event in Hawaii.The Sentry features 31 PGA Tour winners and 29 players who finished inside the top 50 in the FedEx Cup standings last year.The 32-year-old from Japan made eight birdies in his round to hold a slim advantage at Kapalua over another major winner, Collin Morikawa.The American, who won the 2020 US PGA Championship and The Open the following year, shot a 65 thanks to five successive birdies from the 13th."I'm definitely satisfied with where I am," said Matsuyama."Obviously the views are beautiful here. I haven't played well here in a while, so it's good to get off to a good start."Morikawa could have finished the day level with Matsuyama but had to be content with a par at the 18th."I just hit some quality shots and gave myself a run of birdie opportunities," he said."I felt like for the entire back nine I had birdie looks. Obviously I made a handful, but it was just nice to see a couple drop."Hoge leads as PGA Tour season starts in HawaiiAmerican Maverick McNealy equalled the lowest round of the day with a 64 to move to a shot behind Morikawa on 14 under alongside Canada's Corey Conners, Thomas Detry of Belgium and first-round leader Tom Hoge of the US.England's Harry Hall birdied four of his last five holes on his way to a 65 that took him into a group a further shot back that also includes US Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley and former US Open champion Wyndham Clark, who both carded 64s.