Zozo Championship R2

Zozo Championship 2021 R2
October 21-24
Accordia Golf Narashino CC, Chiba, Japan
$9,950,000
Round 1, Round 3, Round 4

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Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama made the best of the cold and rainy conditions to close with a 68 and takes a one-stroke lead into the weekend at the Zozo Championship.

Zozo Championship 2021 R2

“It wasn’t a perfect round, but I played well. I’m happy with it.

“It’s not often that we play in rain and cold at the same time, but I’m happy with the round and it was a good day.”

Zozo Championship 2021 R2

He started the day one shot behind overnight leader and compatriot Hiroshi Iwata and produced three birdies and a bogey on Friday to reach 8-under.

“I’m in a good position,” said Matsuyama. “Looking forward to the weekend and do my best.”

Zozo Championship 2021 R2

American Cameron Tringale closed with a birdie for a 66 and takes second at 7-under.

“Well, it was cold on the first hole and rainy on the last hole,” said Tringale, “but I produced a steady round of golf really. I kept it in front of me, I hit a lot of good iron shots. The course played really long in this cold weather and being so wet. Just made some nice swings with my irons and kind of left myself in the right positions on these greens and was able to make a few putts. That was the day.”

Zozo Championship 2021 R2

One shot behind at 6-under are England’s Matt Wallace (69), American Brendan Steele (68) and Chile’s Joaquin Niemann who followed up his opening 64 with a 71 after making four birdies, three bogeys and a double bogey at the par-4 17th.

“Very pleased,” said Wallace. “It was a tough day, difficult to really — more for the swing and the shots. We’re hitting some drivers, especially on the 10th, you think you can hit it 260 but it goes 240 and you’d never think that after a good strike, so it was difficult to gauge how far the ball was going to go. It was cold, wet, greens are soft and a bit slower. It was just a tough day, but the finish was really important and it was nice.”

Iwata, who opened with a 63, dropped down into a share of seventh place after making two birdies for three bogeys and a double bogey at the par-4 4th for a 73.

Zozo Championship 2021 R2

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1	R2	Total
1	Hideki Matsuyama	-8	64	68	132
2	Cameron Tringale	-7	67	66	133
T3	Matt Wallace	-6	65	69	134
T3	Brendan Steele	-6	66	68	134
T5	Joaquin Niemann	-5	64	71	135
T5	Tommy Fleetwood	-5	67	68	135
T7	Alex Noren	-4	68	68	136
T7	Sebastian Munoz	-4	70	66	136
T7	Hiroshi Iwata	-4	63	73	136
T7	Troy Merritt	-4	68	68	136
T7	Matt Jones	-4	67	69	136
T7	Lanto Griffin	-4	69	67	136
13	James Hahn	-3	68	69	137
T14	Wyndham Clark	-2	70	68	138
T14	Branden Grace	-2	72	66	138
T14	Mackenzie Hughes	-2	70	68	138
T14	Luke List	-2	69	69	138
T14	Erik van Rooyen	-2	69	69	138
T14	Chan Kim	-2	72	66	138
T20	K.H. Lee	-1	70	69	139
T20	Pat Perez	-1	70	69	139
T20	Sam Ryder	-1	68	71	139
T20	Adam Schenk	-1	67	72	139
T20	Naoyuki Kataoka	-1	68	71	139
T20	Jhonattan Vegas	-1	67	72	139
T20	Collin Morikawa	-1	71	68	139
T20	Si Woo Kim	-1	69	70	139
T20	Adam Long	-1	72	67	139
T20	Chris Kirk	-1	69	70	139
T30	Yuki Inamori	E	69	71	140
T30	Shaun Norris	E	68	72	140
T30	Ryan Palmer	E	72	68	140
T30	Harry Higgs	E	68	72	140
T30	Satoshi Kodaira	E	73	67	140
T35	Tyler McCumber	+1	72	69	141
T35	Takumi Kanaya	+1	71	70	141
T35	Carlos Ortiz	+1	68	73	141
T35	Rikuya Hoshino	+1	69	72	141
T35	Keegan Bradley	+1	70	71	141
T35	Rickie Fowler	+1	70	71	141
T35	Tomoharu Otsuki	+1	70	71	141
T35	Kramer Hickok	+1	67	74	141
T35	Ryuichi Oiwa	+1	71	70	141
T44	Ryosuke Kinoshita	+2	67	75	142
T44	Matthew NeSmith	+2	70	72	142
T44	Maverick McNealy	+2	73	69	142
T44	Keita Nakajima (a)	+2	73	69	142
T44	Ryutaro Nagano	+2	71	71	142
T44	Doug Ghim	+2	71	71	142
T44	Andrew Putnam	+2	73	69	142
T44	Kyle Stanley	+2	70	72	142
T44	Tom Hoge	+2	72	70	142
T53	Charley Hoffman	+3	71	72	143
T53	Henrik Norlander	+3	71	72	143
T53	Doc Redman	+3	76	67	143
T53	Sung Kang	+3	74	69	143
T53	Bill Haas	+3	71	72	143
T58	Ryo Hisatsune	+4	74	70	144
T58	Xander Schauffele	+4	70	74	144
T58	Naoto Nakanishi	+4	71	73	144
T58	Brandon Hagy	+4	70	74	144
T58	Sepp Straka	+4	74	70	144
T58	Peter Malnati	+4	75	69	144
T58	Shugo Imahira	+4	72	72	144
T58	Emiliano Grillo	+4	74	70	144
T66	Will Zalatoris	+5	69	76	145
T66	Scott Vincent	+5	72	73	145
T66	Tomoyasu Sugiyama	+5	73	72	145
T66	Jinichiro Kozuma	+5	74	71	145
70	Roger Sloan	+6	72	74	146
71	Wesley Bryan	+7	75	72	147
T72	Ryuji Imada	+8	74	74	148
T72	Chesson Hadley	+8	71	77	148
T72	Kazuki Higa	+8	73	75	148
T72	Garrick Higgo	+8	70	78	148
76	C.T. Pan	+9	76	73	149
77	Brendon Todd	+10	72	78	150
78	Robert Streb	+11	74	77	151