Hideki Matsuyama held onto his lead on the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup points race with a tie for 16 th at the Sony Open last week giving him 49 points, adding that to the 700 points he earned the week before when he won the season-opening Sentry and the first of the Tour’s Signature Events.

However, Nick Taylor may bring the heat this week ... No. 4 Sungjae Im (350 points), No. 5 Nico Echavarria (327) and No. 6 Jhonattan Vegas (325). The American Express field has five of the ...