The australian Cameron Smith with 129 accumulated hits in these first two rounds -17 under par- continues leader of Champions Tournament which is held at the Plantation Course in Kapalua (Hawaii), followed by the Spanish Jon Rahm and the American Daniel Berger.
Smith staggered back on his way and accumulated two consecutive bogeys but, from there the genius. He added hit after hit to add to his card an eagle in hole 5 -pair five- and nine birdies, They secured him in the first position to three of Rahm and Berger who finished with five birdies and an eagle, this one in the same hole as the Australian.
In this way, Cameron equaled the tournament record after 36 holes, which belonged to the South African Ernie Els.
Cameron Smith equals the Sentry Tournament of Champions 36-hole scoring record (Ernie Els/2003) at 17-under 129. He leads World No. 1 Jon Rahm and four-time PGA TOUR winner Daniel Berger by three strokes.
— PGA TOUR Communications (@PGATOURComms) January 8, 2022
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Rahm, number one in the world, continued this journey without making mistakes and left the course in 66 hits after accumulating seven birdies, for a total of 132 hits (14 under par).
The Basque golfer demonstrated after these first two rounds that after almost three months without playing an official tournament has come back with a lot of confidence and has become even more unstuck
of the world number one contender, the American Collin Morikawa,
that today he did not want to risk in the first half of the route, where he committed two bogeys, and that in the second he added five birdies to finish with 70 impacts, 3 under par, and a total of 138 strokes (-8), six behind Rahm .
The Mexican Abraham Ancer he finished with 69 shots after scoring 7 birdies from three bogeys on his card and with a total of 141 hits (five under par) he is thirty-second.
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