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Robert Allenby seeking to put 'nightmare' behind him (The Associated Press)

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Robert Allenby, of Australia, reacts to his shot off the 10th tee on the Seaside Course at the Sea Island …

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.