KAPALUA, Hawaii — There’s no disputing that the birdies and bogeys determine the quality of your golf performance. But the quality of your character is not written with a pencil. It’s shown by your actions.
Meet Peter Malnati, who arguably is the most unheralded qualifier for this party in paradise called the Hyundai Tournament of Champions. Don’t think so? Then try and come up with another name who as recently as 2013 was doing Monday qualifiers on the Web.com Tour while bouncing around different minitours.
Yet here he is basking in Hawaiian sunshine, the shocking winner of the Sanderson Farms Championship in Mississippi last November.