Cam Davis (1st/-8) shot a career low score on the PGA TOUR (62). His previous was 63, three times (most recent: R4, 2023 Travelers Championship).
Tied career-high with nine birdies (fourth instance; first since the second round of the 2023 Rocket Mortgage Classic).
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Entered The Sony Open with two career 18-hole leads/co-leads on TOUR (2020 FedEx St. Jude Championship/finished T29, 2022 Charles Schwab Challenge/T7).
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Is making his sixth consecutive start at the Sony Open in Hawaii; best result: T9/2020
Finished T52 at The Sentry; 38 of the 59 players that competed at The Sentry are in the field at the Sony Open.
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Taylor Montgomery (2nd/-6) opened with a 64 at the Sony Open in Hawaii for the second consecutive year; held a share of the first-round lead in 2023 and went on to finish T12.
Webb Simpson (T3/-5) carded a 65 in the first round, his 108th score of 65 or better since he joined the PGA TOUR at the start of the 2009 season (31 more than any other player in that span).
Chris Kirk (T7/-4), coming off a win at The Sentry last week, has made one bogey in five rounds to start the 2024 season; the last player to win the first two events of a PGA TOUR season was Ernie Els in 2003 (Justin Thomas won The Sentry and the Sony Open during the wraparound 2016-17 season).
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Gary Woodland, making his first start on TOUR since the 2023 Wyndham Championship (T27) after undergoing surgery to extract a brain lesion, recorded a 1-over 71.
Making his first start since the 2022 Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches after undergoing surgeries on his left shoulder and left hip, Tyler McCumber carded an even-par 70.
