Canada’s Nick Taylor heads a group of five players on -9 and in a share of the lead at the Sony Open, the PGA Tour’s season opening event.
However, the story of the tournament so far is the play of 62-year-old three-time major winner Vijay Singh, who is through to the weekend after making the cut.
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Singh fired off scores of 68 and 70 to finish the second round at -2, seven shots behind the leaders.
Singh, who is playing in his first non-Masters event since 2021, cashed in a career money earnings exemption to win a full-time position on the Tour this year.
The rule allows any former Tour player who is among the top 50 all-time earners to regain full membership for one year.
Singh’s decision to rejoin the most cutthroat golf tour on the planet, even though he’s been playing in the Champions Tour from 2017 and hasn’t made a PGA Tour cut since 2020 (until this week), was met with criticism with those who thought Singh was taking the Tour card of a young player more deserving.
“This is what happens when you give into or give too much power to players,” outspoken golf broadcaster Brandel Chamblee wrote on social media.
“If the PGA Tour is going to claim to be a sport based upon meritocracy, you can’t allow players to monetise their performances of a decade or decades ago, through current exemptions.
“Sport must always answer the question: why are you here rather than someone else? And the answer can never be because I was great ten or twenty years ago.”
Adam Scott is the best of the Aussies in Honululu. He’s -3.
Cam Davis was the only other Australian in the field but he missed the cut (+2).
US Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley (E) and Tony Finau were other big names who failed to progress to the weekend.
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