This week’s PGA Tour season-opener in the 50th state is one of two events, along with the Deutsche Bank Championship, with a scheduled Monday finish.
Monday finish for PGA Tour’s Hyundai Tournament of Champions
Bubba Watson, Webb Simpson highlight PGA Tour season-opening Tournament of Champions.
Sam Greenwood
Tournament of Champions preview:
- Dates: January 4-January 7, 2013
- Course: 7,411-year, par-73 Plantation Course at Kapalua, designed by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw
- Field: 30 winners of 2012 PGA Tour events
- Defending champion: Steve Stricker
- Purse: $5.7 million
- FedEx Cup: 500 points to the winner
- Format: 72-hole stroke play (no cut)
- Marquee players: Bubba Watson, Webb Simpson, Keegan Bradley, Brandt Snedeker, Ian Poulter
- Quirks: Monday finish; bizarre injuries forced two players to the disabled list prior to the event in each of the past two seasons -- Geoff Ogilvy cut a finger on a coral reef in 2011 and Lucas Glover hurt a knee while paddle-boarding last year
- Television (all times ET): Friday-Saturday, Golf Channel, 5:30 p.m.-10 p.m. (Golf Channel); Sunday, 3-6 p.m. (NBC), 6 p.m.-10 p.m. (Golf Channel); Monday, 4-8 p.m. (Golf Channel)
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