We are back. Although the PGA Tour doesn’t have much of an offseason these days, it feels like forever ago that we had an event with nine of the world’s top 25 in attendance like we do at the Sony Open this week in Hawaii. Wai’alae Country Club is set to host the Sony for the 28th consecutive year, and due to the cancellation of the Sentry, it will open the PGA Tour season for the first time in that span.
The Course:
Wai’alae was designed by Seth Raynor in 1927 and is set to once again play as a 7,044-yard par 70 with four par 3s, two par 5s, and 12 par 4s. By modern standards, Wai’alae is a very short golf course, and one of the shortest that the PGA Tour will visit all season. Like many coastal venues, it features Bermudagrass from tee to green and is notorious for unpredictable lies in the 3.5-inch rough across the golf course.
Hazards come into play on five holes at Wai’alae, and out-of-bounds stakes are also strewn across the golf course as it weaves through a Honolulu neighborhood. As a result, big misses are penalized harshly. That said, the length of the course means that many holes require less than a driver, allowing longer hitters to club down and thereby keeping the penalty rate at 0.25 strokes per round, below average by Tour standards.
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