The American Express R2

January 21-24
PGA West Stadium Course &
Nicklaus Tournament Course, La Quinta, California
$6,700,000
Round 1, Round 3, Round 4

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Sungjae Im shot seven birdies in a bogey-free 7-under 65 on the Stadium Course to take a one-shot lead into the weekend.

“I’m pretty satisfied with how I played all of my shots,” said Im, who has felt a big improvement in his putting this year. “Speaking of putting, I started drawing a line on the ball as I visualize my putts, and that seemed to work pretty well today.”

Overnight leader Brandon Hagy is among a group of five players tied in second place. He held a one-shot lead after an opening 64 but made two early bogeys at the 14th and 15th. He was poised to regain a share of the lead at 11-under when he bogeyed his final hole to sign for a 70.

Nick Taylor, who held the second round lead at the Sony Open two weeks ago, shot a 66 on the Stadium Course to join Hagy in second place.

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“My game feels really good right now, so hopefully it keeps peaking. It was a lot of intimidating tee shots, iron shots into greens. I feel like I missed in the right places. I drove it really nice on the par-5s and gave myself pretty easy looks on a few of them.”

His impressive form is a good sign ahead of his Pebble Beach title defense in three weeks.

Tournament host Phil Mickelson carded 18 consecutive pars for the first time in his PGA Tour career and posted an even-par 72 at PGA West to follow his opening 2-over 74 and finished seven strokes outside the cut line.

“For that to be the first time, it’s really shocking,” said Mickelson. “Surprising, because I really try to hit fairways and centers of the greens and just make easy pars. Looking at the scores, you’re going to say, ‘Gosh, you played 2-over par, pretty easy courses, pretty poor start.’ But I feel like there were a lot of good things to take from the week, even though the scorecard’s not going to show it.”

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“I’m driving the ball well; I’m hitting a lot of good shots. My putting needs some work, but I have been putting well for a long period of time, so I don’t feel as though it’s going to require a lot of effort. If you look at the scorecard, it’s pathetic. I’m not denying that. But I think that it’s a little bit closer than it looks.”

Having played the first two rounds on two different courses, the final two rounds will be played on the Stadium Course.

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Pos.	Player	To Par	R1	R2	Total
1	Sungjae Im	-11	68	65	133
T2	Abraham Ancer	-10	69	65	134
T2	Tony Finau	-10	68	66	134
T2	Brandon Hagy	-10	64	70	134
T2	Si Woo Kim	-10	66	68	134
T2	Nick Taylor	-10	68	66	134
T7	Doug Ghim	-9	67	68	135
T7	Emiliano Grillo	-9	69	66	135
T7	Francesco Molinari	-9	69	66	135
T10	Brian Harman	-8	68	68	136
T10	Charley Hoffman	-8	70	66	136
T10	Max Homa	-8	66	70	136
T10	John Huh	-8	68	68	136
T10	Andrew Putnam	-8	67	69	136
T10	Adam Schenk	-8	68	68	136
T10	Roger Sloan	-8	69	67	136
T10	Brendan Steele	-8	68	68	136
T18	Ryan Armour	-7	70	67	137
T18	Paul Casey	-7	72	65	137
T18	James Hahn	-7	68	69	137
T18	Luke List	-7	69	68	137
T18	Sam Ryder	-7	67	70	137
T18	Rory Sabbatini	-7	68	69	137
T18	Josh Teater	-7	68	69	137
T18	Richy Werenski	-7	69	68	137
T26	Byeong Hun An	-6	65	73	138
T26	Austin Cook	-6	68	70	138
T26	Cameron Davis	-6	68	70	138
T26	Adam Hadwin	-6	72	66	138
T26	Matt Jones	-6	70	68	138
T26	Chris Kirk	-6	68	70	138
T26	Adam Long	-6	68	70	138
T26	Ben Martin	-6	67	71	138
T26	Alex Noren	-6	67	71	138
T26	Kyle Stanley	-6	70	68	138
T26	Gary Woodland	-6	70	68	138
T37	Bronson Burgoon	-5	71	68	139
T37	Tyler Duncan	-5	67	72	139
T37	Rickie Fowler	-5	73	66	139
T37	David Hearn	-5	68	71	139
T37	Kramer Hickok	-5	70	69	139
T37	Patton Kizzire	-5	69	70	139
T37	Russell Knox	-5	69	70	139
T37	Andrew Landry	-5	70	69	139
T37	Kyoung-Hoon Lee	-5	68	71	139
T37	Jamie Lovemark	-5	68	71	139
T37	Tyler McCumber	-5	69	70	139
T37	Henrik Norlander	-5	71	68	139
T37	Charl Schwartzel	-5	67	72	139
T37	Chase Seiffert	-5	72	67	139
T37	Brian Stuard	-5	74	65	139
T37	Michael Thompson	-5	67	72	139
T37	Jimmy Walker	-5	69	70	139
T37	Matthew Wolff	-5	72	67	139
T37	Erik van Rooyen	-5	70	69	139
T56	Patrick Cantlay	-4	69	71	140
T56	Sebastian Cappelen	-4	70	70	140
T56	Wyndham Clark	-4	70	70	140
T56	Rhein Gibson	-4	70	70	140
T56	Talor Gooch	-4	74	66	140
T56	William Gordon	-4	72	68	140
T56	Harry Hall	-4	70	70	140
T56	Bo Hoag	-4	71	69	140
T56	Zach Johnson	-4	72	68	140
T56	Martin Laird	-4	66	74	140
T56	Hank Lebioda	-4	69	71	140
T56	Nelson Ledesma	-4	70	70	140
T56	Maverick McNealy	-4	67	73	140
T56	Rob Oppenheim	-4	69	71	140
T56	Doc Redman	-4	70	70	140
T56	Vaughn Taylor	-4	73	67	140
T56	Cameron Tringale	-4	68	72	140
CUT	Bill Haas	-3	70	71	141
CUT	Anirban Lahiri	-3	68	73	141
CUT	Ryan Moore	-3	70	71	141
CUT	Cheng Tsung Pan	-3	70	71	141
CUT	Pat Perez	-3	70	71	141
CUT	Chez Reavie	-3	71	70	141
CUT	Scottie Scheffler	-3	70	71	141
CUT	Scott Stallings	-3	74	67	141
CUT	Vincent Whaley	-3	69	72	141
CUT	Tim Wilkinson	-3	70	71	141
CUT	Akshay Bhatia	-2	72	70	142
CUT	Luke Donald	-2	72	70	142
CUT	Jason Dufner	-2	74	68	142
CUT	Brian Gay	-2	74	68	142
CUT	Lanto Griffin	-2	69	73	142
CUT	Fabián Gómez	-2	70	72	142
CUT	Charles Howell III	-2	72	70	142
CUT	Joohyung Kim	-2	69	73	142
CUT	Danny Lee	-2	70	72	142
CUT	Troy Merritt	-2	69	73	142
CUT	Xinjun Zhang	-2	70	72	142
CUT	Aaron Baddeley	-1	68	75	143
CUT	Sam Burns	-1	77	66	143
CUT	Joel Dahmen	-1	69	74	143
CUT	Russell Henley	-1	72	71	143
CUT	Jim Herman	-1	73	70	143
CUT	Satoshi Kodaira	-1	69	74	143
CUT	Brooks Koepka	-1	72	71	143
CUT	Denny McCarthy	-1	73	70	143
CUT	Ted Potter, Jr.	-1	72	71	143
CUT	Patrick Reed	-1	68	75	143
CUT	J.J. Spaun	-1	70	73	143
CUT	Kevin Stadler	-1	72	71	143
CUT	Ben Taylor	-1	71	72	143
CUT	Kristoffer Ventura	-1	68	75	143
CUT	John Augenstein (a)	E	72	72	144
CUT	Lucas Glover	E	71	73	144
CUT	Mark Hubbard	E	68	76	144
CUT	Kelly Kraft	E	70	74	144
CUT	Grayson Murray	E	69	75	144
CUT	Kevin Na	E	75	69	144
CUT	Sean O’Hair	E	71	73	144
CUT	Cameron Percy	E	73	71	144
CUT	Scott Piercy	E	70	74	144
CUT	Patrick Rodgers	E	69	75	144
CUT	Kevin Streelman	E	68	76	144
CUT	Kevin Tway	E	72	72	144
CUT	Mark Anderson	1	70	75	145
CUT	Beau Hossler	1	73	72	145
CUT	Peter Malnati	1	73	72	145
CUT	Bo Van Pelt	1	75	70	145
CUT	Aaron Wise	1	71	74	145
CUT	Tom Hoge	2	71	75	146
CUT	Phil Mickelson	2	74	72	146
CUT	Seung-Yul Noh	2	74	72	146
CUT	Michael Block	3	74	73	147
CUT	Scott Brown	3	72	75	147
CUT	Robby Shelton	3	74	73	147
CUT	Brandt Snedeker	3	73	74	147
CUT	Hudson Swafford	3	71	76	147
CUT	Martin Trainer	3	70	77	147
CUT	Nick Watney	3	74	73	147
CUT	Chris Baker	4	77	71	148
CUT	Brice Garnett	4	70	78	148
CUT	Michael Gligic	4	71	77	148
CUT	Scott Harrington	4	73	75	148
CUT	Camilo Villegas	4	69	79	148
CUT	Sepp Straka	5	72	77	149
CUT	Steve Stricker	5	75	74	149
CUT	Keegan Bradley	6	73	77	150
CUT	Chesson Hadley	6	77	73	150
CUT	J.T. Poston	6	70	80	150
CUT	Rafael Campos	7	74	77	151
CUT	Michael Kim	7	78	73	151
CUT	Nate Lashley	7	73	78	151
CUT	Cameron Champ	8	77	75	152
CUT	Michael Gellerman	8	72	80	152
CUT	Steve Jones	9	73	80	153
CUT	Hunter Mahan	9	76	77	153
CUT	Matthew NeSmith	9	78	75	153
CUT	Sung Kang	10	77	77	154
CUT	Joseph Bramlett	11	79	76	155
CUT	John Senden	11	81	74	155
CUT	Matt Every	12	84	72	156