Campbell, Furyk lead Sony; Wie shoots 68, misses cut

HONOLULU -- Chad Campbell and Jim Furyk each shot 3-under 67 on Friday and were tied for the lead at the Sony Open going into a weekend that again will not include Michelle Wie.

But as always, she kept it entertaining.

With a 5-foot putt on the 18th hole for her seventh birdie of the round, the 16-year-old finished with a 2-under 68 to match her record from two years ago as the lowest score by a woman competing on a male tour.

Even so, she was at 7 over and missed the cut by four shots. And at the end of two days, all she could do was say to playing partner Camilo Villegas, "Play well tomorrow."

Asked the reason for an 11-shot swing over two days -- she opened with a 79, her worst score on the PGA Tour -- the high school junior replied, "I think I was possessed out there yesterday."

"I felt really comfortable today," Wie said.

The cut was 3 over, meaning David Duval got off to an acceptable start. The former No. 1 player in the world two-putted for birdie on his final hole for a 68 to finish at 3-over 143, despite showing up Monday with a bad back that forced him to wear a tight wrap in the opening round.

"I played as well as anyone once I got through eight holes and figured out how to stand and swing," said Duval, who was 5 over through his first eight.

It still wasn't quite as good as Campbell and Furyk, who came to Waialae in a different frame of mind.

Campbell, coming off a winless year on tour, took the last two months off and showed up in Hawaii ready to go.

"I didn't do much, started practicing a little bit the last few weeks, but didn't really play that much at all," said Campbell, who joined Furyk at 6-under 134. "That made it really good to come out here and be refreshed and stay patient during my round."

Furyk still feels like it's the tail end of 2005.

He played in South Africa, went halfway around the world to the Target World Challenge in California, and three weeks later it was time to start the new year. He played well last week at the Mercedes Championships, finishing third, and his game hasn't changed much.

"Maybe I'm not as fresh, but my game ... I was able to keep that up easily," he said.

David Toms had a 69 and was another shot back.

Stuart Appleby switched islands, but that didn't seem to matter. He scrambled to a 66 and was among those at 136, giving him a good chance going into the weekend.

As the afternoon group of players teed off in the PGA Tour's first full-field event of the year, the attention shifted to Wie -- not whether she would make the cut, but simply where she would finish.

Playing for the fourth time on the PGA Tour, she was in second-to-last place after the first round.

Wie started strong with an approach into 6 feet for birdie at the tough second hole, but her round began to slip away on No. 5. She had a 12-footer for birdie, ran it 2 1/2 feet by and missed the par putt to fall to 1 over on her round.

Everything changed at No. 8 when her approach stopped 3 feet away. She holed a 15-footer for birdie on the ninth hole, and hit a beautiful shot -- a low punch that started left and faded toward the flag -- into 15 feet for another birdie on the par-3 11th. Then came a short iron into 8 feet for her fourth birdie in five holes.

The exception was No. 10, where a putt from off the green caught the back lip of the cup.

Appleby has won at Kapalua three straight years, although he didn't play the Sony Open last year because his wife was in Australia expecting their first child. This is a different test, and Appleby pushed his way to the top with one save after another, one of them for bogey when he hit his tee shot into the water.

Waialae is a tiny, traditional layout with tight fairways and small greens, vastly different from the expansive Plantation course on Kapalua last week. Ernie Els in 2003 is the only player to win both Hawaii events in the same year.

"It's smaller targets off the tee and smaller greens," Appleby said. "But the type of golf you have to play -- controlling the ball, controlling the flight -- is very, very similar."

Defending champion Vijay Singh made birdies on the two par 5s for a 69 and was at even-par 140.