Defending champ Matsuyama trails by 1 at WMPO

Defending champion Hideki Matsuyama enters the weekend just one off the 36-hole lead shared by Ben An and Brendan Steele at the Waste Management Phoenix Open. Here’s where things stand heading into the weekend at raucous TPC Scottsdale:

Leaderboard: An (-10), Steele (-10), Martin Laird (-9), Matt Kuchar (-9), Sung Kang (-9), Matsuyama (-9), Michael Kim (-7), Louis Oosthuizen (-7)

What it means: Matsuyama is chasing his fourth PGA Tour title and fifth worldwide win since October. He closed 2016 with wins in four of his final five starts, the last of which came at the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas. The fifth-ranked player in the world now looks to become the first player to repeat as…