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Fifty of the 78 golfers in the field completed
36 holes over par, including Rickie Fowler (+4) and Hideki
Matsuyama (+5). Ben Taylor carded an 84 in the second round with
wind gusts touching 37 mph and consistently clocking in the
20-30 mph range.
"I'd say anything under par was a really quality score, so to
shoot 5 under par was incredible," Hossler said on Friday.
Hossler was the first-round leader in Las Vegas at the Shriners
Children's Open and wound up seventh. He kept his score low
Friday by carding birdies on three par-3s with a run of four
birdies in five holes.
Japan's Satoshi Kodaira, alone in third place, shot 68 with
three birdies and one bogey. He's one clear of four players tied
for fourth: Emiliano Grillo (Argentina), Yuki Inamori (Japan)
and Americans Xander Schauffele and Eric Cole.
First-round leader Collin Morikawa was 3-over (73) and defending
champion Keegan Bradley shot even-par Friday. They enter the
third round in a group of seven players tied for eighth and four
shots off the lead at 3-under for the tournament.
Suh is also in pursuit of his first PGA win and credited precise
iron play as the reason he was on the right side of the jumbled
leaderboard through 36 holes.
"Didn't have any big misses, made some putts, so that kind of
sums up my round," Suh said.
PGA officials decided not to mow the greens before the second
round in an effort to slow the landing surface to compensate for
the high winds. It didn't save everyone strokes.
Matsuyama had back-to-back double bogeys for a round of 76. Cam
Davis of Australia shot 70 on Friday but found himself short of
the green hitting his third shot on his final hole, a par-4,
despite a unique power approach that wasn't enough.
"That was tough," Davis said. "I can't remember the last time I
hit driver, driver on a par-4 and still came up short of the
green."
--Field Level Media
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