The PGA Tour is trading one Hawaiian paradise for another this week, heading to Honolulu for the Sony Open with a whopping $8.7 million up for grabs.
It’s a big shift from last week’s exclusive party at The Sentry in Maui, where only last year’s winners and top FedExCup performers got to tee it up. Now, 144 players will battle it out in the season’s first full-field event.
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Things are looking up for golf’s newest pros, too. Only seven Korn Ferry Tour and Q-School graduates are waiting on the alternate list – way better than last year when 21 young hopefuls were left watching from the sidelines.
Some fresh faces have already locked in their spots. Rising stars Noah Goodwin and Aldrich Potgieter scored sponsor exemptions, along with Q-School graduate Takumi Kanaya.
Here’s what’s interesting: The Tour recently made it tougher to keep your card, dropping the number of fully exempt players from 125 to 100. But that hasn’t lit a fire under players to compete more often – at least not yet.
The action kicks off at Waialae Country Club, where palm trees and ocean views will once again set the stage for some early-season drama.
