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Another tournament in Hawaii, a fresh start for most players
HONOLULU (AP) – For the 31 players at the Sony Open who took the 30-minute flight over from Maui, the choice to play was simple. They’re currently in Hawaii, ensured a tropical environment and the course at sea level is a simple walk.
Collin Morikawa wouldn’t understand it any other method.
In the 2 years considering that he left Cal and turned professional, he has actually won each year on the PGA Trip and been qualified for the Tournament of Champions to start the brand-new year. Plus, his household has history in Hawaii.
Would the PGA champ fly out to the middle of the Pacific Ocean for simply one week?
“It’s a great hypothetical,” Morikawa stated with a smile. “But Hawaii is special to me. I would love to come out here starting the year. It has obviously the right kind of vibes. It gets you going to start the year. And I love it out here.”
His year didn’t start too terribly, other than for one round. With successive rounds of 65, he entered into the last round at Kapalua one shot out of the lead and shot a 73.
For the other 113 players at Waialae, the long journey deserved their while. That consists of Charles Howell III, who is making his 20th successive start at the Sony Open and has actually never ever left the islands without cash in the bank. Together with never ever missing out on the cut, Howell has 7 surfaces in the leading 5, however still no triumph.
“This tournament has obviously been really good to me,” Howell stated. “It’s an event that, Lord willing, I’ll never miss as long as I can play. There’s been a couple that I’ve kind of messed up there at the end or could have played a bit better to maybe have won, but it’s been such a great event to me.”
In some aspects, that surprises him. For those who didn’t certify to start the year at Kapalua, this their very first competitors in almost 2 months. Even coming off a year that extended into December due to the fact that of the COVID-19 pandemic, the last tournament lots of played was simply over a month back.
“I’m more impressed that I’ve had as many top-10 finishes as I’ve had, simply because it is the first event back after a break,” Howell stated. “And you don’t always know how your game is.”
Cameron Smith won in 2015, ending a streak of 6 successive Sony Open winners who began at Kapalua. The benefit would appear to be with those who currently have one tournament on the journal this year, although the numbers versus a 144-man field protest them. There were just 42 players at Kapalua recently.
For the Sony Open, the field is a drop from previous year.
The Tournament of Champions had its greatest field recently considering that the world ranking started in 1986 with 8 of the leading 10 players. Of those 8, just 2 came by to Waialae – Morikawa and Webb Simpson.
Dustin Johnson has a hectic stretch in February that consists of back-to-back weeks in Saudi Arabia and Pebble Beach. Jon Rahm is playing almost each week the remainder of the method on the West Coast Swing. Justin Thomas is headed to Abu Dhabi next week, a long journey even without beginning in Hawaii.
This is a various year with the pandemic, without any fans and not a excellent existence from tournament sponsor Sony. Criticism of almost anything in golf is tough to discover when the PGA Trip has actually handled to play each week – other than for 3 weeks in late December – without disturbance considering that it resumed in June.
No matter who’s playing, winning doesn’t come quickly nowadays.
Harris English lastly broke through recently at Kapalua with a birdie on the 18th hole to require a playoff and another birdie on the 18th to beat Joaquin Niemann. It was his very first triumph in simply over 7 years and English has business. Throw away the majors, and 5 of the 11 winners had actually addressed least 6 years without a prize.
English was No. 29 in the world when he won, a testimony to his strong play. The other 4 – Stewart Cink, Martin Laird, Brian Gay and Robert Streb – were all outside the leading 300.
It can take place any week, and the next shot is in paradise. Morikawa thinks scoring is so excellent that players cannot pay for to let off the gas. That held true recently on Maui, he anticipates the exact same on Oahu.
For competitions in the exact same state, the Plantation Course at Kapalua and Waialae along the coasts simply down the method from Waikiki Beach might not be any various. Morikawa doesn’t have a preferred other than in one element.
“I enjoy walking Sony, I’ll tell you that,” he stated.
HONOLULU (AP) – For the 31 players at the Sony Open who took the 30-minute flight over from Maui, the choice to play was simple. They’re currently in Hawaii, ensured a tropical environment and the course at sea level is a simple walk.
Collin Morikawa wouldn’t understand it any other method.
In the 2 years considering that he left Cal and turned professional, he has actually won each year on the PGA Trip and been qualified for the Tournament of Champions to start the brand-new year. Plus, his household has history in Hawaii.
Would the PGA champ fly out to the middle of the Pacific Ocean for simply one week?
“It’s a great hypothetical,” Morikawa stated with a smile. “But Hawaii is special to me. I would love to come out here starting the year. It has obviously the right kind of vibes. It gets you going to start the year. And I love it out here.”
His year didn’t start too terribly, other than for one round. With successive rounds of 65, he entered into the last round at Kapalua one shot out of the lead and shot a 73.
For the other 113 players at Waialae, the long journey deserved their while. That consists of Charles Howell III, who is making his 20th successive start at the Sony Open and has actually never ever left the islands without cash in the bank. Together with never ever missing out on the cut, Howell has 7 surfaces in the leading 5, however still no triumph.
“This tournament has obviously been really good to me,” Howell stated. “It’s an event that, Lord willing, I’ll never miss as long as I can play. There’s been a couple that I’ve kind of messed up there at the end or could have played a bit better to maybe have won, but it’s been such a great event to me.”
In some aspects, that surprises him. For those who didn’t certify to start the year at Kapalua, this their very first competitors in almost 2 months. Even coming off a year that extended into December due to the fact that of the COVID-19 pandemic, the last tournament lots of played was simply over a month back.
“I’m more impressed that I’ve had as many top-10 finishes as I’ve had, simply because it is the first event back after a break,” Howell stated. “And you don’t always know how your game is.”
Cameron Smith won in 2015, ending a streak of 6 successive Sony Open winners who began at Kapalua. The benefit would appear to be with those who currently have one tournament on the journal this year, although the numbers versus a 144-man field protest them. There were just 42 players at Kapalua recently.
For the Sony Open, the field is a drop from previous year.
The Tournament of Champions had its greatest field recently considering that the world ranking started in 1986 with 8 of the leading 10 players. Of those 8, just 2 came by to Waialae – Morikawa and Webb Simpson.
Dustin Johnson has a hectic stretch in February that consists of back-to-back weeks in Saudi Arabia and Pebble Beach. Jon Rahm is playing almost each week the remainder of the method on the West Coast Swing. Justin Thomas is headed to Abu Dhabi next week, a long journey even without beginning in Hawaii.
This is a various year with the pandemic, without any fans and not a excellent existence from tournament sponsor Sony. Criticism of almost anything in golf is tough to discover when the PGA Trip has actually handled to play each week – other than for 3 weeks in late December – without disturbance considering that it resumed in June.
No matter who’s playing, winning doesn’t come quickly nowadays.
Harris English lastly broke through recently at Kapalua with a birdie on the 18th hole to require a playoff and another birdie on the 18th to beat Joaquin Niemann. It was his very first triumph in simply over 7 years and English has business. Throw away the majors, and 5 of the 11 winners had actually addressed least 6 years without a prize.
English was No. 29 in the world when he won, a testimony to his strong play. The other 4 – Stewart Cink, Martin Laird, Brian Gay and Robert Streb – were all outside the leading 300.
It can take place any week, and the next shot is in paradise. Morikawa thinks scoring is so excellent that players cannot pay for to let off the gas. That held true recently on Maui, he anticipates the exact same on Oahu.
For competitions in the exact same state, the Plantation Course at Kapalua and Waialae along the coasts simply down the method from Waikiki Beach might not be any various. Morikawa doesn’t have a preferred other than in one element.
“I enjoy walking Sony, I’ll tell you that,” he stated.
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