The new yr starts offevolved off with top time golfing -- at the least it is right here within the Southeastern US -- from Maui, Hawaii.
Sentry Insurance is the brand new host of the Tournament of Champions. The host course remains the same as in years beyond -- the Plantation Course at Kapalua. And the protecting champion is Justin Thomas, this occasion having kicked off his top notch streak via 2017.
While a number of gamers have skipped this event in the past, the sizeable majority of remaining season's winners plan to tee it up this time -- 34 overall, matching the maximum competition within the past 15 years. (That sounds in reality dazzling but there were 34 gamers 3 different times.) I suppose it really is all but 3 of those who qualified. Obviously this event method more to the more youthful gamers coming up!
It seems to me that Rickie Fowler can be the most important tale this week, actually because he is been playing so well and is coming off the Hero World Challenge win. Justin parlayed closing 12 months's win here right into a blockbuster season that protected his first fundamental, and there is little doubt that Rickie would love to see the identical thing manifest to him. But the Kapalua route lends itself to low rankings so he'll have his work reduce out for him.
As I said, we get prime time golf to start the new year. The Sentry Tournament of Champions airs on GC starting at 5pm ET on Thursday with the Pre Game Show , then moving on to "official" coverage at 6pm ET. It's nice to get past the replay events of the last two weeks and see some NEW golf!
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