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SAN DIEGO — If there’s a formula to win a PGA Tour event, Nicolai Hojgaard certainly is not following it. He came to soggy San Diego off a 20-hour travel day, sleep deprived, without seeing 27 of the 36 holes he played on the first two days of the Farmers Insurance Open. Flying blind? Flying high, actually. Hojgaard hurdled the physically taxing arrival and the mental uncertainty of the mysteries that awaited off almost every tee at Torrey Pines to push golfer after golfer into the rear view. Halfway through the Farmers, Hojgaard has flipped conventional golf wisdom on its head. “Sometimes not…