Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\nGenius Hitsutsane leads at Pebble Beach | 14:43<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like my golf swing\u2019s in a really nice spot, shot options are in a really nice spot and starting to see some putts fall,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile Japan\u2019s Hisatsune built on his career-best 10-under opening round with a fine five-under par 67.<\/p>\n
He bogeyed both the 18th and 1st as he made the turn at Spyglass Hill — one of two in use for the event\u2019s first two days — but regained his composure and eagled the par-five seventh and birdied the ninth for a strong finish.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old from Okayama, who won the 2023 Open de France on the DP World Tour, has been stepping it up in pursuit of a first US PGA Tour title.<\/p>\n
After a tie for second behind runaway winner Justin Rose at Torrey Pines, Hisatsune held the halfway lead at the Phoenix Open last week, before finishing 10th.<\/p>\n
Rickie Fowler also carded 64 to end the day in joint third place, on 14-under par, with Sam Burns.<\/p>\n
Australian Lee is next, tied fifth with American Jacob Bridgeman and Austrian Sepp Straka after a superb second-round 65 that featured seven birdies and an eagle.<\/p>\n
Jason Day, the only other Austalian in the field, is at six under after a 68.<\/p>\n
PEBBLE BEACH, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 13: Min Woo Lee of Australia reacts to a missed putt on the fifth green during the second round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am 2026 at Pebble Beach Golf Links on February 13, 2026 in Pebble Beach, California. Mike Mulholland\/Getty Images\/AFP (Photo by Mike Mulholland \/ GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA \/ Getty Images via AFP)Source: AFP<\/p>\n
Fowler bogeyed the 14th but produced an otherwise flawless round featuring nine birdies.<\/p>\n
Chasing his first PGA Tour win since 2023, 37-year-old Fowler is on the mend after battling through injury in a 2025 season that saw him briefly drop outside the world top-100.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy shoulder was bad all last year so I was just trying to manage and get through as best that I could,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy body and shoulder feel a lot better than it did last year,\u201d added Fowler. Elsewhere, Harris English carded the day\u2019s best round with a bogey-free 63, featuring nine birdies, to bounce back from a disappointing opening-round 73 and reach eight-under at the event\u2019s halfway mark.<\/p>\n
World No.1 Scottie Scheffler crept back up the leaderboard with a second round of 66, putting him six-under for the tournament after an erratic opening round of 72.<\/p>\n
Scheffler again looked wobbly on his first few holes, including a bogey on the 13th, but after a run of birdies he chipped in from 65 yards for an eagle on the seventh.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt like I played better again than my score today, which is pretty frustrating, but was able to get some stuff going on the back nine,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo at least a respectable score today versus yesterday, (which) wasn\u2019t very respectable.\u201d Defending champion Rory McIlroy carded an uneven 67 featuring an eagle, five birdies and two bogeys on the Pebble Beach Golf Links course, finishing with a birdie to sit on nine-under par in a tie for 17th place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Akshay Bhatia has joined Ryo Hisatsune at the top of the PGA Tour Pebble Beach Pro-Am leaderboard on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[2620,6954,64,63,243371,485,243374,102760,243372,755,8463,941,6920,243373,243375,6960,756,6113,85,2614],"class_list":["post-478668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-agence-france-presse","tag-akshay-bhatia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-back-to-back-bogey-free","tag-california","tag-disappointing-opening-round","tag-dp-world","tag-erratic-opening-round","tag-golf","tag-golf-swing","tag-japan","tag-justin-rose","tag-nice-spot","tag-putts-fall","tag-rickie-fowler","tag-rory-mcilroy","tag-san-francisco","tag-sports","tag-united-states-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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