Brandt Snedeker, Zac Blair share Sony Open lead

He opened with an 84 and followed with a 75.

In his six rounds this year, he already is 33-under par. That beats the way he finished the up previous year.

“If I hadn’t played last week, I’d be a lot more concerned about it”, Snedeker said about his change. Shots that would have given me concern years past was not concerning at all. I never want to be the guy that people say, ‘Well, he’s gone to the other side where he doesn’t appreciate playing the PGA Tour. So I’m excited about what the weekend holds. And he has never had a better chance than this to win on the PGA Tour. He still had a 6-under 64 and will have a good shot at his first PGA Tour victory. I’m going to go out there and try and shoot as low as I possibly can.

The pair top the leaderboard at 16 under but have a host of challengers queuing up behind them as they prepare for the final round on Sunday (Monday AEDT).

They are longtime friends with similar games. Kisner might be the hottest player in golf not named Jordan Spieth.

But this is not a two-man show.

Luke Donald shot a second-round 65 to move into contention at the halfway stage of the Sony Open in Hawaii. He added a two-footer and nine to turn 3-under. This marks the third time he has been ideal in scrambling through two rounds, and the first time since he won at Pebble Beach past year. His only blemish was a bogey on the par-three eighth.

Meanwhile, he wasn’t kidding about feeling comfortable with his new position over the ball. He was hitting fairways and greens, the key to playing Waialae.

It was 5-iron at the 17th he would like to have back.

Snedeker missed birdie putts of 10 feet and 12 feet on the last two holes for a 66.

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Vijay Singh, who opened with a 63 for part of a five-way share of the first-round lead, shot a 1-under 69 and is at 8 under, tied for 11th. He tied for the lead with a 40-foot birdie putt on the 13th and stay there with a tough par save at the 15th. He wound up with a 70 and was six shots behind.

Kisner’s frustration was starting to get noticeable when he bent over so far that his hands almost touched his shoes on the fifth, but with that eagle on the ninth, he still was only one shot out of the lead.

“To go out and play the way I did on Sunday at the RSM with a three-shot lead was a huge confidence builder”, Kisner said.

There were 87 golfers to make the cut, forcing 29 threesomes tomorrow, with the leaders going off at 12:55 p.m. One of those 87 is local boy Nick Mason, who landed on the cutline at 3-under 137.