KAPALUA, Hawaii – Robert Allenby returned to paradise with hopes of putting a nightmare behind him.
Allenby has missed the Sony Open only three times in his 17 years on the PGA Tour, and this would have been an acceptable occasion to miss. He went from victim of what he first described as a robbery and kidnapping to the butt of jokes over a bizarre night in Honolulu that left him with a bloodied forehead and no memory of what happened.
So why bother going back?
''I've got so many great memories here that I wasn't going to let one bad one interrupt it,'' he said Sunday night after checking into the Kahala Hotel at Waialae Country Club.