PGA Tour : Sony Open Field
The venerable Waialae GC, par 70, 7044 yards will open the 2026 PGA Tour season on Thursday, sponsored by Sony for the last time.
Canada's Nick Taylor will attempt to successfully defend his title, he leads Corey Conners, Taylor Pendrith, Adam Svensson and rookies AJ Ewart, and Sudarshan Yellamaraju.
Russell Henley #5, JJ Spaun #6, Robert MacIntyre #7, Hideki Matsuyama #17 are the owgr top ranked players.
Also taking advantage of winning dual membership from the DP World Tour, Dan Brown, Haotong Li, Keita Nakajima, John Parry, Kristoffer Reitan, Adrien Saddier, and Jordan Smith
England's Laurie Canter left LIV in 2024 saying he wanted to play his way into the majors and Ryder Cup consideration on the DP World Tour. He had a strong 2025 playing his way into the top 10 that qualified for dual membership with the PGA Tour and all the money on offer there.
However he declined to return to LIV for the easier guaranteed money on offer there. He is the father of two young daughters in Bath, England and said that flying back and forth to the USA 30 times a year was not the way he wanted to live.
He also rejoined his life long pals Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter on their LIV team.
This is the last year Sony will sponsor the event, and as I mentioned yesterday, the PGA Tour is considering a re structure of the schedule, possibly eliminating the two Hawaiian tournaments that traditionally begin the year.
Bryan Angus
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