
Waialae plays differently for the PGA Tour event.

The par 70 course welcomes low scores and serves as a warm-up for many golfers. Since 1965, the Hawaiian Open has been held at Waialae Country Club. United Airlines began sponsoring the event in 1991 until Sony took over in 1999. The Tournament of Champions on Maui technically kicks the season off the weekend before the Sony Open. It is widely considered the first full-field event on the PGA Tour calendar. The Sony Open is held in the winter and is a part of the FedEx Cup Series. ET on Monday morning, which is +2800.Ī win at the Sony Open could spark Conners into a breakout year on TOUR, and he should be priced toward the top of the leaderboard.See the world’s best golfers compete in paradise with your Sony Open tickets from TicketSmarter. The latter has the best number on him as of 11:30 a.m. Conners hasn’t missed a cut since the Scottish Open in July, with nine straight finishes in the top 40.Ĭonners opened the week on FanDuel at +3100 and Caesars at +3000.

That’s warranted given the way he has played in recent months. Among players in this week’s field, Conners has the second most True Strokes Gained on the course, according to the numbers from Data Golf.Ĭonners is being offered as low as +1800, which would put him among the tournament’s five favorites. He’s made the cut all three times with finishes of T39, T12 and T3 at Waialae in the past. In his three previous appearances in this event, Conners has excelled.

Among that group, Corey Conners should be seen as one of the favorites to win this week. While many of this week’s participants at the Sony Open are holdovers from last week’s event at Kapalua, many of the new faces in Hawaii this weekend should figure in as contenders this weekend. Here’s who one of our GolfBet analysts is targeting earlier in the week: 10 in the world) is joined by Harris English (14), Hideki Matsuyama (19), Abraham Ancer (20) Jason Kokrak (22), Billy Horschel (23) and Sungjae Im (24) as top-25 players in this week’s field, all of whom played in the Tournament of Champions. More than half of the field at last week’s 38-player Sentry Tournament of Champions will stick around in Hawaii, including Smith. The Sony Open is the first full-field event of 2022 at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu. Editor’s note: Bryson DeChambeau withdrew his name from the field on Monday morning.Īfter a thrilling start to 2022, Cameron Smith is favored to do the Hawaiian double and win the Sony Open for the second time in three years.
