Golf:Robert Garrigus shot a stunning 10-under 63 to shoot to the top of the leaderboard at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions in Hawaii where US Open champion Graeme McDowell improved with a second round 67.
Garrigus played a near faultless round to reach the halfway stage on 14 under 132 for a one stroke lead on Sweden’s Carl Petterson, who carded a 67.
Garrigus parred his opening two holes before recording four consecutive birdies. On the inward half further birdies came at the 10 and 12 before making eagle at the par four 16th. The icing on the cake came with two closing birdies for the 10 under round.
Petterson carded five birdies plus an eagle at the fifth, with his only bogey of the day coming the ninth. Petterson was joint first leader with American Jonathan Byrd, who shot 68 to drop back to third.
McDowell’s six under 67 moved the 31-year-old up into a tie for 13th in the select 33-man field, while the second best performance of the day came from Ernie Els, whose 64 was enough to catapult the ‘Big Easy’ up 18 places into a share of fourth.
Alongside Els on 10 under are Steve Stricker (67), Jim Furyk (68) and Italian Francesco Molinari (67). Molinari’s Ryder Cup team-mate Ian Poulter improved in his opening 70 by two strokes, but remains six off the lead, one ahead of McDowell.
Collated second round scores and totals in the PGA Tour Hyundai Tournament of Champions, The Plantation Course - Kapalua Resort, Kapalua, Maui, Hawaii (USA unless stated, par 73):
132Robert Garrigus 69 63
133Carl Pettersson (Swe) 66 67
134Jonathan Byrd 66 68
136Francesco Molinari (Ita) 69 67, Steve Stricker 69 67, Jim Furyk 68 68, Ernie Els (Rsa) 72 64
137Dustin Johnson 71 66, Ben Crane 67 70
138Bill Haas 68 70, Bill Lunde 70 68, Ian Poulter (Eng) 70 68
139 Graeme McDowell (NIrl) 71 68, Matt Kuchar 69 70, Jason Day (Aus) 73 66
140Hunter Mahan 70 70, Anthony Kim 69 71, Adam Scott (Aus) 73 67, Bubba Watson 70 70, Tim Clark (Rsa) 72 68
141Arjun Atwal (Ind) 72 69
142Justin Rose (Eng) 75 67, Ryan Palmer 70 72
143Charley Hoffman 68 75, Cameron Beckman 72 71, Matt Bettencourt 73 70
144Zach Johnson 71 73, Heath Slocum 70 74, Stuart Appleby (Aus) 69 75, Jason Bohn 72 72
148Derek Lamely 72 76
149Rocco Mediate 79 70
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