Russell Henley’s aura of invincibility didn’t make it to the first tee of his second Sony Open in Hawaii.

After blitzing through his first official PGA Tour event a year ago at Waialae Country Club, Henley went down for the count after making the turn in Wednesday’s Pro-Am. He walked off the course after the 11th hole and was checked by a doctor in the locker room. Henley left the course saying he thinks he is suffering from food poisoning.

With medicine, and the resilience of a 24-year-old, he hopes to be on the first tee with Hideki Matsuyama and Jordan Spieth at 7:40 this morning. It would be a shame if Henley missed a shot at a sequel to last year’s spectacular debut.

His scores were record-setting and nothing short of fabulous. Henley threw three 63s at a defenseless Waialae, finishing at 24-under-par 256. It was the third-best score in tour history.

Henley went 50 holes without a bogey, one-putted 30 percent of the greens and became the youngest champion since the tour came here in 1965. Tim Clark birdied the last four holes and lost ground, finishing second by three shots despite a score of 259 that would have wiped out the previous record — if Henley had only walked away for some reason last year.

"They should make these guys play somewhere else for a little bit more," Clark joked last year. "It’s great for the tour, and the fact that they’re such nice guys you can only be happy for the guy getting his first win."

For Henley, it was an extension of sudden success that found him toward the end of 2012 on the Web.com Tour. He ended the season by winning two of his last three starts, then started his official PGA Tour career by blowing everybody away in the year’s first full-field event. In those four starts, Henley was 73-under par.

"I don’t know how you do it," said 37-year-old Zach Johnson, two days after making the Hyundai Tournament of Champions his 11th tour win. "This was my first week as a card-carrying member back in ’04, and I missed the cut. It’s one of those things, what he’s done, or what he did last year, is nothing short of a miracle."

Today, with luck, Henley will go out just before Johnson, who won here in 2009, 2008 champion K.J. Choi and Clark. In the past year, Henley has won another $1 million, but collected just two more top 10s and no more 63s. He didn’t break 70 at Kapalua, not that it resembles Waialae in any way, shape or form.

"You’re talking about the hardest walk in golf at Maui to potentially and arguably the easiest on the PGA Tour here at Waialae," said Johnson, who will try to become the second — after Ernie Els in 2003 — to win both Hawaii events the same year. "Vastly different, but also challenging, too, because you’re going from some of the biggest fairways to some of the smallest fairways, and you’re going from some of the biggest greens to some of the smallest greens.

"Everything you would want in a golf course, where you’ve got to pick it apart and plot your way around, I think this golf lends itself to. If there’s any wind here, it’s hard, and it usually is blowing. This is cliche golf. This is hit the ball in the fairway, however you do it, get the ball in the fairway and then stay below the pin, keep the golf course in front of you, and make those four- and five-footers. A great test."

Henley aced it last year, ranking first in putting and second in greens in regulation, and playing the par-4s in 17 under. Only once in the history of the tour has anyone done that better.

This year, another 11 rookies will see if they can mess with the class curve, on a course that had the lowest scoring average (68.901) on tour last year. They will be joined by Henley — hopefully — and Adam Scott (2), Johnson (7), Matt Kuchar (8), Jason Dufner (13), Spieth (17) and Matsuyama (23) from the Top 25.