A new PGA Tour season begins this week in Hawaii. Will this be the last year that sentence is typed?<\/p>\n
That story line is hanging over the opener in Honolulu, as new PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp talked last year about adding \u201csimplicity\u201d and \u201cscarcity\u201d to the schedule<\/a> and Harris English a couple months ago suggested that such a schedule may not even start until after the Super Bowl<\/a>.<\/p>\n The traditional opening event in Maui didn\u2019t happen last week, and Sony is out after this year as the sponsor in Honolulu. So is the writing on the wall?<\/p>\n That will be discussed more later, but for now a field of 120 players will take on Waialae Country Club playing for the first FedEx Cup points of the year and a $9.1 million purse.<\/p>\n This tournament hasn\u2019t drawn a ton of stars in recent years and this year is hurt without the lead-in of the signature-event Sentry. A number players that may have played both aren\u2019t traveling across the Pacific for just one tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley is in the field but just five players from Bethpage are: Ben Griffin, Russell Henley, Robert MacIntyre, Collin Morikawa and J.J. Spaun.<\/p>\n Past champions in the field include defending champion Nick Taylor, Henley, Si Woo Kim, Zach Johnson, Patton Kizzire, fan favorite Hideki Matsuyama and Vijay Singh.<\/p>\n Wait, who?<\/p>\n Yes, Singh, the 2005 champion, took a one-time career money list exemption for the 2026 season and will play the Sony as the first half of his own Hawaii swing, as the PGA Tour Champions plays at Hualalai next week. 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Knapp, Jake<\/p>\n