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MATT STONE \/ COURIER JOURNAL \/ USA TODAY NETWORK via IMAGN IMAGES<\/p>\n
Chan Kim on the first tee during the second round of the PGA ISCO Championship Friday at Hurstbourne Country Club in Louisville, Ky.<\/p>\n
Chan Kim used a late eagle to right the ship and finish the second round with a five-shot lead at the ISCO Championship on Friday in Louisville, Ky.<\/p>\n
Kim, a Kaimuki alum and 2006 Hawaii high school state champion, opened the PGA Tour alternate event at its new venue, Hurstbourne Country Club, with a terrific round of 61 Thursday for a four-stroke advantage. After opening Friday with a birdie at the par-5 10th hole, he gave away his cushion with bogeys at Nos. 11, 16 and 1.<\/p>\n
Starting on the back nine, Kim trailed Beau Hossler by a shot when he reached his 13th hole (par-4 No. 4), where his pitch from 36 yards away came in hot and banged into the hole. He added birdies at his 16th and 17th holes to climb to 11-under 129.<\/p>\n
Kim, 35, eagled the par-4 fourth hole for the second straight round.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what the odds are of doing that, but boy, if I could make four 2s on that hole I\u2019d be very happy,\u201d he quipped.<\/p>\n
Kim \u2014 a journeyman who has won 10 titles between the Japan Golf Tour and the Korn Ferry Tour \u2014 is halfway to his first PGA Tour triumph.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI know that, like I said, these guys are so good, somebody\u2019s going to catch up,\u201d said Kim, who tees off at 8:50 this morning. \u201cI already know that. The best I can do is handle myself the way I did when I won all those events \u2014 and that\u2019s just to stay patient and play my game, work on sticking to our game plan and I think that should get the job done.\u201d<\/p>\n
The closest competitors are Kris Ventura of Norway (64), Vince Whaley (67) and Thomas Rosenmueller of Germany (69), tied for second at 6 under. Hossler settled for a 68 and a share of fifth, tied with Kevin Kisner (69), Englishman David Skinns (64) and several others.<\/p>\n
Ventura had a winding path to his 64, tied with Skinns for the round of the day. He had a double bogey and a bogey mixed among four birdies on the front nine, but he kept the pedal down and birdied five more coming in.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the highlight would have been just turning it around after the double bogey on 4,\u201d Ventura said. \u201cI think the old Kris would have been really pissed off and maybe let that affect me a little too much. I just knew that it\u2019s playing tough so if you just shoot a couple under par, you\u2019re going to be right there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MATT STONE \/ COURIER JOURNAL \/ USA TODAY NETWORK via IMAGN IMAGES Chan Kim on the first tee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[6813,427,99],"class_list":["post-6399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-editors","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}