{"id":415144,"date":"2026-01-18T15:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T15:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/415144\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T15:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T15:42:10","slug":"vijay-singh-62-makes-cut-at-the-sony-open-beating-some-of-the-worlds-best-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/415144\/","title":{"rendered":"Vijay Singh, 62, Makes Cut at the Sony Open, Beating Some of the World&#8217;s Best Players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5d\">Age is just a number\u2014especially in golf.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5g\">A few weeks ago, many were surprised when 62-year-old Vijay Singh exercised his career money exemption, making him eligible for full field events in the 2026 PGA Tour season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5m\">But at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/golf\/sony-open-preview-field-course-history-tee-times-how-to-watch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Sony Open in Hawaii<\/a>, the 34-time Tour winner backed up his decision, making the cut at 2 under par, shooting 68-70.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5p\">Through 36 holes at Waialae Country Club,\u00a0 Singh sits T47, seven strokes off a five-way tie for the lead, held by defending champion Nick Taylor, along with Davis Riley, Kevin Roy, S.H. Kim and Adrien Dumont de Chassart.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Vijay Singh, 62, has made the cut <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SonyOpenHawaii?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@SonyOpenHawaii<\/a> in a *fourth* different decade \ud83d\ude2e<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s the oldest to make a cut on TOUR since Fred Couples at the 2023 Masters. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tlRafWHPxm\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/tlRafWHPxm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PGATOUR\/status\/2012385308055085254?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5v\">However, Singh, who hasn\u2019t played a non-major PGA Tour event since 2021 and last competed on Tour full-time in 2017, has beaten several of the world\u2019s top players, such as Hideki Matsuyama, Collin Morikawa, Keegan Bradley, Tony Finau, Billy Horschel and Aaron Rai.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5y\">Singh, a native of Fiji, is the oldest player to secure a weekend tee time in a Tour-sanctioned start since Fred Couples, then 63 years old, at the 2023 Masters. Singh\u2019s most recent made cut came at the 2020 Memorial.\u00a0Jay Haas holds the record, making the cut with his son, Bill, at the 2022 Zurich Classic at the age of 68. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"61\">The three-time major champion has collected $71 million in career earnings (sixth all-time) throughout a career that began in 1992.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"64\">He mostly competes on the PGA Tour Champions, where he\u2019s a five-time winner. But maybe Singh\u2019s magic in Hawaii inspires him to add more starts against the young guns to his 2026 schedule. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Age is just a number\u2014especially in golf.\u00a0 A few weeks ago, many were surprised when 62-year-old Vijay Singh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-415144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}