HONOLULU – With golf joining the Olympics for the first time since 1904, the PGA Tour is trying to put together a test event for the new course in Rio de Janeiro.

The tour is having a tough time finding anyone to go because of the crowded 2016 schedule.

“We’ve got a good list of players who are, quote, interested in coming,” PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem said. “But we don’t have a long list of players who are committed to coming. That’s the case with the guys who are currently playing on the PGA Tour, just because of the schedule, looking ahead to the summer, seeing the compaction. So I don’t know.”

The test event is planned for March 8, and the tour has lined up a charter flight for its members.

Every sport must have an event at the Olympic venue ahead of the Rio Games. Finchem said if golf can pull together this outing, it will count as the test event.

“We can do that with any combination of players that are being talked to,” he said. “Also, I think it’s probably most important to get international players. We don’t know how it’s going to wind up. We’ve got transportation issues and a sponsor the next week that’s watching and saying, ‘Am I going to lose anybody?'”

The World Golf Championship at Doral ends on March 6 and is followed by the Valspar Championship, where Jordan Spieth is the defending champion. His agent, Jay Danzi, said the tour approached Spieth about a trip to Rio, but he didn’t want it to interfere with his title defense at Innisbrook.

The European Tour and Asian Tour have a co-sanctioned event in Thailand that week. The LPGA Tour is off, though its best players will be in Singapore on March 6 for the HSBC Women’s Champions.

British Open champion Zach Johnson said he was asked. His foundation has a retreat that week. Jimmy Walker and Rickie Fowler also were approached and decided against a flight to Brazil. It’s a month before the Masters, with tournaments like the Arnold Palmer Invitational, Dell Match Play and Shell Houston Open leading up to Augusta.

Finchem is eager to have the test event, and not just to tick off that box.

“We want to get some good players on there so if there are things we’re not seeing … you know as well I do, we build these golf courses and ‘Oh, it’s great.’ And then you get the best players in the world on there and we’ve got 10 problems,” he said. “They see things you didn’t notice. So we want to get that done.”

He also described the Gil Hanse design as having a “hangover” from environmental protests and legal challenges that delayed the project.

“We want to get the word out that it’s a good golf course,” Finchem said.

HOMECOMING: The Golf Channel on NBC crew will have some fond memories during the CareerBuilder Challenge this week.

Tommy Roy is the lead golf producer and has no small amount of history in the California desert. Roy first worked for NBC Sports at the Bob Hope Classic in 1979 as a volunteer runner. Fourteen years later, Roy made his debut as a golf producer at the 1993 Bob Hope Classic.

Johnny Miller will start his year at the tournament, which also is appropriate. Not only did Miller win the Bob Hope Classic in consecutive years (1973-74), this is where he made his on-air debut as a golf analyst for NBC in 1990.

NBC last had the tournament in 1998. The Bob Hope Classic went to ABC for eight years before becoming a fixture on the Golf Channel.

In some respects, it will be a reunion. Five members of that NBC crew that televised the Hope in 1998 will be back this year – Roy, Miller, Dan Hicks, Roger Maltbie and Gary Koch. Hicks was a tower reporter in 1998. Now he does play-by-play with Miller.

SCOTT’S DECISION: Adam Scott has made it clear over the last several months that the Olympics aren’t a priority. What he hasn’t said is whether he will represent Australia if eligible, which is likely.

“I said it’s not my priority at all, and that means I’ll make a decision at the very last moment whether it fits or not,” Scott said. “It’s not the main focus of the year. It’s not what I built my schedule around. If it fits in good at the time, I’ll play. And if it doesn’t, then I won’t.

The first decision he has to make is on May 6.

Players have been getting emails from the PGA Tour over the last few weeks about the “Registered Testing Pool” regarding the anti-doping program for the Olympics, which is far more stringent that the tour’s program. All players who would qualify for the Olympics on May 6 must be entered in the pool.

If players become eligible after May 6, then they are added to the pool and stay there until the final Olympic Ranking on July 11. But if players choose not to compete in the Olympics, they will be removed from the pool and not allowed to be added at a later date.

ELECTION TIME: Jimmy Walker, Kevin Streelman and Charley Hoffman have been selected to run as co-chairmen for the Player Advisory Council. The two players with the most votes will start a three-year term on the board starting in 2017.

The voting ends Feb. 15.

Others serving on the PAC this year are Blayne Barber, Ricky Barnes, Roberto Castro, Stewart Cink, Graham DeLaet, Harris English, Jim Furyk, Matt Kuchar, Dicky Pride, John Senden, Brendon Todd, Johnson Wagner and Tim Wilkinson.

One streak remains. An international player has never been voted chairman of the PAC.

BELL HONORED: Judy Bell is in the World Golf Hall of Fame and in the history books as the first president of the U.S. Golf Association. She receives another honor this year the U.S. Open as the winner of the Bob Jones Award.

The award is the highest honor from the USGA and honors a person who demonstrates the spirit, character and respect for the game shown by the amateur great.

She was president of the USGA in 1996-97.

Bell played in 38 USGA championships. She played on two winning Curtis Cup teams and was captain twice. The Women’s State Team Championship Trophy was named after a year after her two-year tenure as president.

She was among the first women to become honorary members of the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews.

DIVOTS: Padraig Harrington reported no issues with his knee in his first two tournaments since surgery to repair his meniscus. He was 24-under par at Kapalua and Waialae and was par or better for all eight rounds. … The first of three playoff events for the Charles Schwab Cup on the PGA Tour Champions will be held at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, California. Sherwood previously held the World Challenge that Tiger Woods hosts until 2013. … The third Latin America Amateur will be held in 2017 at Panama Golf Club. … George Peper, the former editor-in-chief at Golf magazine, has been selected to receive the 2016 PGA Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism.

STAT OF THE WEEK: Greg Owen has three top 10s in the last year. Two of them were at PGA Tour events won by Fabian Gomez.

FINAL WORD: “Am I not supposed to be grounded? You are who you are. Why change based on anything you’ve done?” – Jordan Spieth.

HONOLULU – Northern Trust is moving its title sponsorship on the PGA Tour from Los Angeles to New York and will become the opening FedEx Cup playoff event next year, which could create a small domino effect of sponsors.

Barclays has decided not to renew its title sponsorship after 12 years in the New York area, according to two people with knowledge of plans for London-based Barclays. They spoke on condition of anonymity because it had not been announced.

Starting in 2017, the FedEx Cup playoff’s first event will be called The Northern Trust. It will keep the previous golf courses, starting with Glen Oaks in 2017 and rotating among Ridgewood, Plainfield, Liberty National and Bethpage Black.

Chicago-based Northern Trust took over in 2008 as the title sponsor in Los Angeles, and immediately helped upgrade the tournament at Riviera, which is regarded among the best golf courses on the tour.

The switch to New York leaves Los Angeles without a title sponsor after this year, but perhaps not for long.

Hyundai Motor America, which had a one-year deal at Kapalua for the Tournament of Champions, has been talking with the PGA Tour about becoming title sponsor in Los Angeles. The company’s U.S. headquarters are a few hours away in Orange County.

If Hyundai were to move its sponsorship to Los Angeles, the winners-only event that traditionally starts the year on Maui still would not be without a title sponsor. Korea television giant SBS signed a 10-year deal through 2019, and it had farmed out the title to Hyundai in 2011.

The tour would look for another title sponsor for Kapalua, and the tournament could be more attractive the way the PGA Tour is trending toward youth. With so many young winners, such as Jordan Spieth, Jason Day, Dustin Johnson and Rickie Fowler, the Hyundai Tournament of Champions had its strongest field in 10 years.

Phil Mickelson stopped playing in 2002, and Tiger Woods last played at Kapalua in 2005. Neither has won a tournament since 2013.

PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem said officials have considered moving the Hawaii swing to the fall for the start of its wraparound season, though all indications are it will stay in January. “I think we’d like to try to keep it where it is and make it work,” he said.

However that plays out, the tour still has a few big corporate holes to fill after this year.

The biggest question is the World Golf Championship at Trump National Doral. Cadillac is not expected to renew its sponsorship after this year, which has raised questions whether the tour will leave the Miami area for the first time since 1962.

The tour has a longterm deal to play at Trump National Doral, though that deal is subject to approval by a new title sponsor. Some of Trump’s inflammatory remarks during his presidential campaign has caused golf to keep its distance. The PGA of America last year canceled its Grand Slam of Golf, which was planned for Trump National Los Angeles. The PGA of America and USGA, however, have not abandoned plans to stage majors at Trump’s courses starting in 2017.

The tour said in a statement last month that it would “explore all options” after this year’s Cadillac Championship ends on March 6.

Deutsche Bank is in the final year of its contract for the second FedEx Cup playoff event outside Boston and is not likely to renew. There have been discussions about reducing the playoffs to three events instead of four.

“I’d say if there’s a way we can do other things in the schedule that relate to that general period of time, it might be a good thing to do,” Finchem said. “The attitude of the players has always been it’s tough for four in a row. And then you also a lot of times are getting close to the Presidents Cup or Ryder Cup. Both, in our view, are big events. You want space between big stuff.

“So I think it would depend on what else could go in the schedule, which is something we’re looking at.”

Conversely, Finchem said the FedEx Cup playoff events have worked well in each market and are growing.

“It’s not like it’s broken, but we’re always trying to do something better,” he said.

Colonial also is without a title sponsor this year after Crowne Plaza did not renew after 2015.

Perhaps the most famous quote about sisters is attributed to Pulitzer Prize winning poet Louise Glück. She writes, “of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.”

The bonds of sisterhood are incredibly strong for Brittany and Brooke Henderson, but who is the watcher, and who is the dancer?

With Brooke being granted LPGA Tour status after her victory in August, it might be easy to conclude that she is the dancer. Brittany, the elder Henderson by six years, is the watcher.

But without Brittany’s love for golf, there would be no Brooke. “Watching my older sister play, I wanted to be just like her,” explains Brooke. “It drove me to be a better person and a better golfer.”

Brittany – a bubbly blonde whose name precedes Brooke’s on the sign posted in their hometown of Smiths Falls – was the first of the Henderson sisters to pick up a club and play at the 9-hole Rideau Lakes Golf Club, inspiring Brooke to play too.

She was the dancer. Brooke was the watcher.

“My dad was always out there playing, and I would be hanging out with my mom and would be jealous of my dad. I wanted to go hang out with him,” Brittany explains.

Brittany says her father, Dave, had a rule for his daughter, who was nine at the time. He would hit from the back tee and Brittany would tee off from the forward tee, and only when Brittany’s first two shots could reach his drive could she play with him regularly. It didn’t take long for Brittany to achieve that goal, and more. She says she grew up playing a lot of Canadian Junior Golf Association and American Junior Golf Association tournaments, and Brooke was coming along for the ride with their parents.

“We started playing while we were pretty young, just for fun. She would be tagging right along and hit the odd shot with my Dad and I,” says Brittany. “As soon as she could play, well, she wanted to get out there and play.” Through high school, Brittany took golf quite seriously. She eventually went to Costal Carolina – a mid-sized U.S. school near Myrtle Beach (and Dustin Johnson’s alma matter) – on a golf scholarship. “Everything Brittany did, she took it very seriously,” says her coach at Costal Carolina, Katie Quinney. “She put everything she had into golf and school.”

Individually, she was named the conference’s Golfer of the Year and Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2013, when she helped lead her school to the Big South Conference Championship. “She was a bit of a golf geek,” Quinney explains, laughing. “On a Sunday when everyone else would be on the beach or shopping, she’d just want to go hit balls. It’s what she loved.”

Upon graduation, she turned professional. The following year she captured her first – and to date, her only – professional victory. It was a win on the Sun Coast Ladies Tour in Florida, worth $5,000 US. She had Brooke on her bag as her caddie that week. But after Brooke turned professional in December 2014, it was Brittany who would be her caddie on weeks when she was off from her schedule on the Symetra Tour – where she earned over $15,000 through 12 events.

Although the Women’s British Open conflicted with a Symetra Tour event, Brittany explains it was her own choice to go there and caddie for Brooke, who ended up finishing T61. “It was totally my decision. I just thought it would be really neat to go,” she says. “It was a tough decision, especially on the Symetra Tour because you’re always trying to make money and get through that top ten at the end of the year.”

Even though Brittany has sacrificed a few opportunities to earn money on the Symetra Tour by caddying or playing in LPGA events – she played in Portland, when Brooke won, and played in the CP Canadian Women’s Open – she was still committed to finishing the Symetra Tour season. Quinney, who still keeps in touch with Brittany, is doing her best to encourage her along the way. “I keep reminding her to stay patient and remember being a professional golfer is a process,” she states. “It’s hard to watch Brooke’s process – it’s so accelerated – but (Brittany) is still ahead of the curve of so many people who have graduated with her.”

When Brittany does caddie for Brooke, she says their on-course relationship is a fun one. She admits they share inside jokes where, “a lot of people wouldn’t know what we’re talking about.” And, she’s always happy to be by the side of her best friend. “It’s definitely pretty fun out there. It’s business first, but we try to lighten up in certain circumstances as well,” she explains.

So while Brooke’s future is secured after her victory in August, the question remains for Brittany – will she be watching, or dancing?

“I love playing and I really love caddying as well,” she states. “I guess either way it goes, I’ll be happy.”

HONOLULU – Fabian Gomez of Argentina closed with two birdies for an 8-under 62, and then made his 11th birdie of the day on the second playoff hole to beat Brandt Snedeker on Sunday in the Sony Open.

Gomez won for the second time on the PGA Tour, and this one was much tougher.

Starting the final round four shots behind, the 37-year-old Gomez ran off seven straight birdies in the middle his round, let Snedeker back in the game with a pair of bogeys, and then holed a 10-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole and a 20-foot birdie from just off the 18th green to finish at 20-under 260.

Snedeker made a 4-foot birdie on the 18th for a 66 to force the playoff.

Zac Blair, who shared the 54-hole lead with Snedeker, had a 10-foot eagle putt on the 18th hole to join them, but it missed on the high side. He had a 67.

On the first playoff hole at the par-5 18th, Snedeker’s 12-foot birdie for the win narrowly missed. Returning to the 18th a second time in the playoff – the hardest fairway to hit at Waialae on Sunday – Gomez went with a hybrid off the tee to stay in the short grass. His 3-iron reached the front of the green and set up a long two-putt birdie.

Snedeker hit driver into a bunker, laid up and hit wedge 10 feet behind the hole. His birdie attempt to extend the playoff slid by to the right.

“It’s frustrating because I couldn’t make putts to win the golf tournament,” Snedeker said. He said leaving his 12-foot putt to win on the first playoff hole “is going to sting today and tomorrow.”

Gomez won the St. Jude Classic last year by four shots and already was in the Masters. This victory will move him just outside the top 50 in the world ranking, greatly improving his chances of playing in the Olympics this summer.

His 62 was the lowest closing round by a Sony Open champion.

Blair saved par from 8 feet on the 16th hole to keep alive his chance, and he almost cashed in with what he called the best 3-wood of his life from 280 yards. “Oh my gosh, that’s so good,” Blair said as he watched it bound forward onto the green to 10 feet. He needed the eagle to join the playoff. It stayed just above the hole.

“One of the best putts I’ve probably ever hit right there on 18,” he said. “Unfortunately, it didn’t go in.”

Si Woo Kim, the 20-year-old from South Korea, was part of a five-way tie for the lead briefly. He closed with one bogey and five parts for a 68 to finish fourth.

Kevin Kisner, playing in the final group for the third time in his last four tournaments, ended his streak of 15 consecutive rounds under par at the worst time. His best putts were to save par until a wild tee shot on the eighth led to double bogey, dropping him five shots behind. Kisner still was in the mix until a bunker-to-bunker double bogey on the 17th ended his day. He closed with a 70 and tied for fifth.

Gomez surged into contention, and then the lead, with seven straight birdies starting with a 12-foot putt on the sixth hole. The Argentine was so dialed in that the next six birdies were all inside 8 feet. But he followed that streak with two straight bogeys, and only the great finish got him into the playoff.

Snedeker and Blair were the only players who stayed with him.

Blair had a share of the 54-hole lead for the first time, playing alongside two of the best putters, and even with that little wiggle in his stance to get comfortable, he rolled it beautifully. He holed a 12-foot par putt on the opening hole and made birdie putts of 35 feet on No. 7, 20 feet on No. 8 and 25 feet on No. 12, the last one giving him a share of the lead when Gomez finally made bogey.

Snedeker came out flat with seven pars and a bogey and twice fell three shots behind. But with birdies around the turn, an 8-foot birdie on the 14th and Gomez making those two bogeys, he was right back in the mix.

He took the lead for the first time all day with a gap wedge he stuffed into 3 feet for birdie on the 16th, but moments later, Gomez made his birdie on the 17th.

In the second tournament since the ban on anchored strokes typically used for long putters, Blair was asked to review his stroke on the 17th before signing his card. He used a fairway metal to putt out of light rough, and a television replay made it look as though the end of the club might have been touching his body.

After a brief review, it was determined the club did not touch his body.

Canada’s Graham DeLaet tied for 7th at -14.

JOHANNESBURG – Haydn Porteous kept his nerve to go bogey-free through the final round Sunday and win the Joburg Open by two shots for his first European Tour title.

The South African finished with a 3-under 69 for an 18-under total of 269 at Royal Johannesburg and Kensington Golf Club. He pushed clear of a three-way tie for the lead overnight for his breakthrough win.

Zander Lombard, one of the men to share the lead with Porteous, finished second after a 71, which included four birdies but also three bogeys.

The third co-leader, Anthony Wall of England, was in a four-way tie for third after a 72. Wall had been searching for his first tour title in 16 years only to fail to pick up any shots on his closing nine. He finished three behind Porteous and alongside Bjorn Akesson, Justin Walters and American Daniel Im.

The additional reward for Porteous, Lombard and Wall were places at this year’s British Open at Royal Troon.

Victory came after the 21-year-old Porteous missed the cut at both previous European Tour events he’d played this season. His measured finish included birdies on the par-5 No. 8, on No. 14 and at No. 18 to make sure.

Porteous became the second first-time winner on the tour’s South African swing after 22-year-old Brandon Stone won last weekend’s South African Open.

Wall had a chance at just a second European Tour win – and his first since 2000 – after reasonable progress on the front nine with two birdies and a bogey. But he slipped up with a bogey on No. 10 and wasn’t able to climb back into contention, finishing with eight straight pars.

Having missed the cut last week, Ernie Els ended the Joburg Open with another disappointing round, a 74 this time for 5 under overall and in a tie for 44th.

HONOLULU – Même après avoir raté un oiselet de deux pieds au dernier trou, ce ne fut pas difficile pour Zac Blair de voir le positif, samedi, à l’Omnium Sony.

Blair a effectué trois roulés sur la dernière normale-5 à Waialae et a dû se contenter d’une carte de 64, six coups sous la normale, ce qui lui a procuré une égalité en tête avec Brandt Snedeker. Blair est en quête d’une première victoire sur le circuit de la PGA.

Snedeker a raté des roulés pour l’oiselet sur les deux derniers trous pour jouer 66. Ils étaient à moins-16, et ils ont encore beaucoup de compagnie au haut du classement.

Kevin Kisner a commis son seul boguey de la ronde après que son coup de fer se soit retrouvé derrière les tentes corporatives au 17e trou. Il s’est bien repris avec un oiselet au 18e pour jouer 66 et il accuse maintenant un coup de retard sur les meneurs.

Le Canadien Graham DeLaet est à égalité au 13e échelon à moins-10 tandis que son compatriote Nick Taylor occupe le 52e rang à moins-6. Adam Hadwin, de Moose Jaw en Saskatchewan, est 68e à moins-4 et David Hearn, de Brampton en Ontario, est à moins-3 et n’a pas pu terminer la ronde.

HONOLULU – Zac Blair missed a 2-foot birdie putt on his final hole Saturday and had to settle for a share of the lead with Brandt Snedeker.

Blair drilled a 3-wood into the par-5 closing hole at Waialae to just over 40 feet, lagged it short and pulled the short birdie. He still had a 6-under 64 and will have a good shot at his first PGA Tour victory.

Snedeker missed birdie putts of 10 feet and 12 feet on the last two holes for a 66.

They were at 16-under 194.

Kevin Kisner birdied his last hole for a 66 and was one shot behind. He will be in the final group for the third time in his last four PGA Tour events.

Canada’s Graham DeLaet is tied for 13th at 10-under 200.

SEBRING, Fla. – Young Pro Squad member Corey Conners fired a 2-under 70 to earn medallist honours in Saturday’s rain-delayed final of PGA Tour Lationamérica Qualifying School at the Sun ‘N Lake Golf Course.

Conners, a Listowel, Ont., product, finished at 10-under (74-67-67-70) for a two-stroke victory over a trio of Americans at 8-under par. With the win, the 24-year-old Kent State graduate earns fully exempt status on tour.

Heading into the 2016 season, Conners will split events between the PGA Tour Latinoamérica and the Mackenzie Tour-PGA Tour Canada.

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JOHANNESBURG – Anthony Wall has a chance at his second European Tour title and first in 16 years when he heads into the final round of the Joburg Open as part of a three-way tie for the lead.

England’s Wall and South Africans Zander Lombard and Haydn Porteous were on 15-under-par 200 on Saturday after three rounds at Royal Johannesburg and Kensington Golf Club.

Wall, trying to add to his Alfred Dunhill Championship victory in 2000, had four birdies in a 68. Lomard had one of the rounds of the day with his 65, while Porteous matched Wall’s 68.

The trio leads by two from a group of four players: Overnight leader Ross McGowan, who slipped off the top with a 1-over 73, Jacques Blaauw, Paul Dunne, and American Daniel Im.

HONOLULU – A new driver, a new swing and Brandt Snedeker is starting to feel just like new.

Coming off a great weekend at Kapalua, Snedeker played bogey-free Friday and rolled in a couple of long birdie putts that carried him to a 5-under 65 and a one-shot lead over Kevin Kisner after two rounds of the Sony Open.

Snedeker was at 12-under 128.

“I feel like I’m playing great, so it should be fun,” Snedeker said about the weekend at Waialae.

It could be fun for a lot of players.

Two dozen players were separated by five shots at the halfway point. Scoring conditions were so ideal that 87 players from the 144-man field made the cut, meaning there will be a 54-hole cut on Saturday.

Kisner, who played with Snedeker, kept pace with him on Thursday (both opened at 63) and on Friday until a two-shot swing on their 12th hole. Snedeker made a 35-foot birdie putt and Kisner missed a 5-footer for par. Kiser kept his wits even as his putts kept missing. Even though he missed three birdie chances inside 10 feet and had several others in the 15-foot range that caught part of the cup, he hung in there long enough to make a 12-foot eagle putt on his last hole for a 66.

British Open champion Zach Johnson (66) and the resurgent Luke Donald (65) were among those two shots behind, while the group three strokes back included Sean O’Hair and 49-year-old Jerry Kelly. Vijay Singh, who turns 53 next month and can become the PGA Tour’s oldest winner, had a 69 and was four behind.

Dating to his final two rounds on Maui – 65-67 to tie for third – Snedeker is 26 under over his last 72 holes. That beats the way he finished the up last year. He went to the Australian PGA Championship and opened with an 84.

He made a full commitment to an overhaul of his setup, and Snedeker said he worked hard with Butch Harmon and then showed up in Maui early, playing a couple of practice rounds with Jordan Spieth. And it helped that Kapalua’s fairways are among the widest in golf.

“Maui being wide open off the tee a little bit helped me get comfortable with it,” Snedeker said. “And then I realized this week … how it feels, what should happen, and when I do hit a bad shot, I kind of know where it comes from. So I feel way more comfortable with it this week and excited about it, because the bad shots haven’t been near as bad as they have been.”

Kisner was a runner-up in the HSBC Champions and won the RSM Classic at Sea Island in his final two tournaments of 2015, and he started the new year by finishing ninth at Kapalua on a weekend where his putter went cold. And here he is again, contending on the weekend after a year in which he had four runner-up finishes at a victory.

“To go out and play the way I did on Sunday at the RSM with a three-shot lead was a huge confidence builder,” Kisner said. “It wasn’t that favorable that I took a month-and-a-half off after it, but to come back and get right back into the fire and have a chance to win this weekend is going to be huge for me.”

Two-time defending champion Jimmy Walker finished with nine straight pars for a 68 to finish on 3-under 137 and make the cut on the number. He was nine shots back.

Kisner and Snedeker were right of the fairway on the par-4 third, having to punch out low to avoid the palm trees. Kisner’s shot caught a frond and came down short of the green, and he pitched to 5 feet and missed the par putt. Snedeker’s shot ran all the way onto the green, and he holed a 35-foot birdie putt for a two-shot lead.

On the par-3 fourth, Snedeker made a 20-foot birdie putt, and then finished with a good chip out of the rough to 4 feet for birdie on the par-5 ninth.

Kisner’s frustration was starting to get noticeable when he bent over so far that his hands nearly touched his shoes on the fifth, but with that eagle on the ninth, he still was only one shot out of the lead.

“I was proud of the way I stayed patient all day,” Kisner said. “That round could have been a few more bogeys if I’d have let not holing any of the putts get to me, but stayed patient, kept hitting good shots and good way to finish it on 9.”

Graham DeLaet of Weyburn, Sask., sits T36 and leads the Canadian contingent at 5-under 135 following a bogey-free 62. Brantford, Ont., native David Hearn is tied for 47th place at 4-under after carding a 71 on the day, while Abbotsford, B.C., products Adam Hadwin and Nick Taylor are T66 at 3-under.

DIVOTS: All three players who are staying on for the Champions Tour season debut next week on the Big Island – Singh, Fred Funk and Davis Love III – made the cut. … Robert Allenby missed the cut by four shots in his return to Honolulu. He shot a 68 on Friday. That was his lowest score since Aug. 2. … Five players who were at Kapalua last week missed the cut – Russell Knox, Justin Thomas, Chris Kirk, Graeme McDowell and Troy Merritt.