Twofer Tuesday: Sony Open

Twofer Tuesday maintains to take a smash from the chilly temperatures of the mainland as it checks out the Sony Open.

The Tour remains in Hawaii, making the fast flight from Maui to Oahu and the Waialae Country Club in Honolulu. Waialae has usually been the host course for this occasion, and the 7044-yard tune not often performs over par (the ultimate time turned into 70.06 way returned in 2010). But it's now not the gap that gets you at Waialae, it's the wind -- the route is stimpped at an insignificant 11 due to it.

That makes the Sony Open a extensive-open match. Matt Kuchar -- hardly ever the longest player on Tour -- is the defending champion, and this is an event where everyone with a hot game can take the identify.

As I stated final week, I'm doing Twofer Tuesdays a bit otherwise this 12 months. Rather than selecting a winner and a Top10er, I'm simply going to choose two gamers every week to submit Top10s (because I ended up keeping song of that besides) and should one of them win, I'll make a word of it. It'll streamline the entire procedure.

Here are the gamers I like this week:

• My first Top10er is Joaquin Niemann. While he wasn't great at his first Presidents Cup, he clearly learned a lot from it and is playing really well now. In his first appearance at the Sentry ToC last week he posted a T5, which is nothing to sneeze at. I see no reason that he shouldn't do as well in his first appearance at the Sony.
• Last week I passed on Justin Thomas and he won. This week... I'm passing again. Instead, I'm taking another first timer -- Collin Morikawa. In his first appearance at the Sentry he posted a T7. Granted, he had some familiarity with the course but I think that familiarity with the conditions could certainly help him at Waialae. And the shorter length of the course should play into his hands, given that marvelous iron game of his.

Just because I'm not trying to name a winner this year doesn't mean I'm simply going to go chalk each week. While these two players are dark horses in terms of experience, I think they can hold their own against the more established players. They certainly did last week!

GC's live prime time coverage begins Thursday at 7pm ET. I'm looking forward to seeing some more warm sunny weather, even if it's only on TV.