PGA Tour: Sony Open Leaderboard Tee Times
I remember well one February night in 1985 arriving home at Pearson in a full blown, snow driven winter Hooley in my Hawaiian shirt, shorts and flip flops from three weeks in paradise on Oahu on a direct 12 hour flight from Honolulu, all tanned and sobering up, as my Greek/ Canadian limo driver chuckled as he negotiated a midnight blizzard along the 401 to get me safely home.
Well that Hooley is blowing again tonight in Toronto, a filthy wet East wind knocking down trees and power lines as we hunker down.
Meanwhile 12 hours away to the west, halfway across the blue Pacific, six top Canadian golfers and their families staying at the Alohilani Resort (former Pacific Beach hotel) on Waikiki are at the windblown Waialae CC at this years version of the Sony Open. waiting to see who plays the weekend.
The leader from 3.5 hours west away in southern China at Dalian, now a resident of Jacksonville in Florida is 26 year old Carl Yuan 66 65 -9 in only his 34th PGA Tour event owgr #185, who shared the 36 hole lead at our RBC Canadian Open before finishing T18 in one of his better outings last year, he missed the cut in 16 others.
He shares the clubhouse lead with Austin Eckroat who is from Oklahoma in his 44th PGA Tour event after missing the cut in 24 of them also chasing the dream of winners 65 66 -9 as well as Korean Byeong (Ben) An 67 64 -9 as round two with the cut at -2 wraps up after a delayed start.
It wasn't a day for the tourists, ending in a stiff wind, steady rain, ah, but there is always happy hour I remember at this towering hotel right across the road from Waikiki, 2 tall boy Budweiser's for the price of one, a Pina colada or two, dinner and a dip in the Pacific to sober up.
As for the Canucks, Adam Hadwin missed the cut by a shot, for the rest, another weekend in paradise.
Canadians
Ben Silverman T26 67 68 -5
Taylor Pendrith T37 69 67 -4
Nick Taylor T37 69 67 -4
Corey Conners T65 70 68 -2
Adam Svensson T65 71 67 -2
Adam Hadwin T81 67 72 -1
Bryan Angus
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