PGA Tour Brunch - SONY Open First Look

@PGATourBrunch - Preview of the SONY Open in Hawaii - January 14-17, 2021

Jan 13, 2021

Tournament Notes and Quotes:

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Thursday’s weather report calls for party cloudy, a few showers with temperatures in the 68-80-degree range. Winds Northeast-to-East 10-16 mph. The Hawaii trade winds are expected to tone down on Friday.

THIS WEEK on the PGA TOUR: SONY Open

COURSE: Waialae Country Club, Hawaii)

ARCHITECT: Seth Raynor

YARDS/PAR: 7,044 yards/Par 70

PRIZE Money/First Place Winnings: $6,600,000/$1,1880,000

DEFENDING Champion: Cameron Smith (2020 Leaderboard link)

PAST CHAMPIONS of Event: (link)

FEDEx CUP Points/Winner Share for points: 2,989/500

SOCIAL MEDIA: #PGATour #FedEXCup @SonyOpenHawaii #SonyOpenHawaii

TV COVERAGE: (All on GOLF CHANNEL) Thursday, Jan. 14-to-Saturday, Jan. 16th: 7pm-10:30pm ET) and Sundayday, January 17th (6pm-10:00pm ET)

PGA TOUR RADIO COVERAGE: Thu-Fri-Sat - 5:00pm-10:30pm (ET); and Sunday final (5:00pm-10:00pm ET)

THE BASICS:

The Field at the 2021 SONY Open in Hawaii (link)

*Last week’s Sentry TofC Leaderboard (link)

2021 Sony Open Leaderboard (link)

2021 SONY Open in Hawaii Odds: (via William Hill)

Collin Morikawa 14-1
Webb Simpson 14-1
Harris English 16-1
Daniel Berger 20-1
Hideki Matsuyama 22-1
Sungjae Im 22-1
Joaquin Niemann 25-1
Cameron Smith 28-1
Ryan Palmer 30-1
Kevin Kisner 30-1
Abraham Ancer 30-1
Russell Henley 33-1
Adam Scott 33-1
Billy Horschel 35-1
Matt Kuchar 35-1
Zach Johnson 40-1
Sergio Garcia 40-1
Lanto Griffin 45-1
Brendon Todd 45-1
Sebastian Munoz 50-1
Emiliano Grillo 50-1
Marc Leishman 50-1
Jason Kokrak 50-1
Charles Howell 50-1
Erk Van Rooyen 50-1
Brian Harman 50-1
Patton Kizzire 66-1
Keegan Bradley 66-1
Kevin Na 66-1
Talor Gooch 66-1
Si-Woo Kim 70-1
Chez Reavie 70-1
Carlos Ortiz 70-1
Matthew NeSmith 80-1
Mackenzie Hughes 80-1
Russell Knox 80-1
J.T. Poston 90-1
Brandt Snedeker 90-1
Stewart Cink 100-1
Scott Piercy 100-1
Takumi Kanaya 100-1
Rory Sabbatini 100-1
Tom Hoge 100-1
Cameron Davis 100-1
Branden Grace 100-1

T’s Wedge Edge: We like Sungjae Im at 22-1 this week at the SONY. He finished T-5 last week at the Sentry Tournament of Champions and didn’t putt very well. He had all four rounds in the upper 60s, with a pair of 67s for (-21), four strokes off the lead.