Stuard’s 65 good enough for Waialae lead
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Brian Stuard shot 65 again at Waialae on Friday to move to the top of the leaderboard at the Sony Open in Hawaii.
Stuard’s successive 65s had him at 10-under 130 with a one-stroke lead over Australia’s Marc Leishman and Japan’s Hideto Tanihara.
The highlight of the day was provided by James Hahn, who had an albatross on the par-5 ninth hole, when he holed a 6-iron from 191 yards, prompting an awkward chest bump with his caddie.
“That was a little spontaneous, but I forgot that — I’ve got to be politically correct, right? — white men can’t jump,” said Hahn, the South Korean-born resident comedian on tour. “So I got a little air, he didn’t. But it was fun.”
Surfer Benji Weatherley is on the bag this week for Masters champion Adam Scott, and he had a blast in front of two dozen friends from the North Shore. Weatherley showed great confidence talking Scott out of a driver on the 18th hole.
“He’s really getting the hang of it,” Scott said.
The advice seemed to work as Scott finished with a tap-in birdie after his approach shot hit the flag, giving him a round of 66 that left him three shots off the lead.
Stuard has now had seven straight rounds in the 60s at Waialae dating to his first trip here in 2010.
“It’s something to do with the greens,” Stuard said. “I feel comfortable on the greens. I feel like I read them pretty well.”
Leishman also made an eagle on the ninth hole.
“They’re the things that really turn an average round into a good one, or a good one into a great one,” Leishman said.
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