2021 Tournament of Champions scores: Big-name stars giving chase to solo leader Harris English in Hawaii - CBSSports.com
2021 Tournament of Champions scores: Big-name stars giving slump to solo leader Harris English in Hawaii
KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) -- A new year, and Harris English keeps brilliant on rolling.
English finished with a 10-foot birdie to cap off an ideal Friday at the Sentry Tournament of Champions with a 6-under 67, giving him a two-shot lead over a quartet of players that includes protecting champion Justin Thomas.
Even with a lead, it feels as concept the first PGA Tour event of the year is wide open. With virtually no wind, rare for the Plantation Course at Kapalua, scores been low and several players were stacked up unhurried him. That includes Masters champion Dustin Johnson, who hit it stop enough all round to make a few putts in his fraudulent of 65.
"Felt like I got back in the tournament a small bit," said Johnson, playing for the proper time since his Nov. 15 victory at Augusta National.
English is with 16 players at the winners-only event who didn't win last year. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic that wiped out three months on the tour schedule, anyone who cooked the Tour Championship qualified this year. English did everything but win, touching from No. 369 in the world to with the top 30.
And he's playing like it. He was bogey-free and rarely faced any stress. It's hard to feel that on the western edge of Maui, and English was entertained by a pair of humpback whales splashing their fins in the Pacific under the course.
He was at 14-under 132, two shots onward of Thomas, PGA champion Collin Morikawa (65), Daniel Berger (65) and Ryan Palmer (67), novel player who didn't win in 2020 and was heart-broken to be here.
Thomas lost some of his Aloha spirited on the back nine. He had a one-shot lead at the turn, missed a short-tempered birdie chance on the par-3 11th and then struggled to keep it in play. A control to the left in the native grass kept him from a good birdie opportunity on the short-tempered 12th. He hit another one to the left into high grass on the 13th and made his proper bogey.
Thomas also failed to convert chances on the next four holes, and the 18th was looking grim when he missed a long iron and came up 40 yards short-tempered, a perilous spot with a front pin and the grain competing hard toward the back. He clipped a sand wedge and it was nearby to go too far when it hit the pin and dropped 3 feet away. He made that for his only birdie on the back nine and shot 69.
He was with 16 players separated by four shots touching into the final two days.
Xander Schauffele holed an 80-foot eagle putt on the 18th for a 66 and was in the business at 11-under 135 that included Patrick Reed, who had a 68. Another shot unhurried was the group that included Johnson, Jon Rahm (66) and U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau (67).
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