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SPORTS A17
Saturday 7 November 2015

Kisner opens POWER
PACK
2-shot lead on
Green Bay small betting favorite in Carolina
a course he
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12)
barely knows throws under pressure from Denver Broncos outside
linebacker DeMarcus Ware (94) during the first half
DOUG FERGUSON of an NFL football game, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015, in
AP Golf Writer Denver.
SHANGHAI (AP) — Two par
saves in the middle of his Associated Press
round and two birdies at PAGE 20
the end put Kevin Kisner
in a place he has never
been.
And that has nothing to do
with his first trip to China.
Kisner put together an-
other bogey-free perfor-
mance Friday in the HSBC
Champions for a 6-under
66 and a two-shot lead
over Russell Knox going
into the weekend of the
World Golf Championship.
He was at 14-under 130,
the lowest 36-hole score of
his career, and he was the
36-hole leader for the first
time in his career.
It was more than Kisner ex-
pected at Sheshan Inter-
national, mainly because
he didn’t have any expec-
tations.
A sore back kept the
31-year-old American from
seeing the golf course until
he teed it up in the open-
ing round on Thursday. He
was so lost that walking
off the eighth green, he
wasn’t sure how to get to
the next hole. None of that
seemed to matter.
“It’s just golf, man,” Kisner
said. “Doesn’t matter if it
was here or wherever. Still
get the ball in the hole as
fast as you can.”
That proved far more dif-
ficult Friday than in the
opening round, mainly be-
cause the still, soft condi-
tions gave way to a strong
wind that never relented.
Kisner twice saved par,
with a 20-foot putt on the
par-3 fourth and a 15-foot
putt on the par-4 15th hole.
Only 16 players shot in the
60s on Friday, compared
with 41 in the opening
round.

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