Tournament: Sony Open, January 14-17, 2021
Course: Waialae Country Club, par 70, 7,044 yards (just outside Honolulu)
Purse: $6.6 million; $1,188,000 to the winner
Defending Champ: Cameron Smith. The young Aussie achieved the most unlikeliest win - he bogeyed the first hole and triple-bogeyed the second hole of the tournament but still came out on top. And considering he donated money for every birdie and eagle to the devastating Australian wildfires (remember that?), it was a great feel-good start to 2020.
Fun Fact: Besides the fact that tourney has always been played on this course, there are 4 palm coconut trees behind the 7th green that are planted and cross in such a way as to form a “W” to the eye when walking up to the green.