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Currently, it is held in mid-January and is the first full-field event of the calendar year, following the Tournament of Champions on Maui. The front and back nines of Waialae are switched for the PGA Tour event, finishing at the dogleg ninth hole. [5] The first lead sponsor was United Airlines in 1991, succeeded by current sponsor Sony in 1999.
In events in which there are cuts, only golfers who make the cut for an event will receive points for that event. In case of a tie, point totals are added together and divided among all golfers tied for a particular position at the end of a tournament.
Sony Open in Hawaii: Hawaii 8,700,000 Nick Taylor (5) 49.21 Jan 19 The American Express: California 8,800,000 Sepp Straka (3) 50.69 Jan 25 Farmers Insurance Open: California 9,300,000 Harris English (5) 48.68 Feb 2 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am: California 20,000,000 Rory McIlroy (27) 71.62 Signature event Feb 9 WM Phoenix Open: Arizona 9,200,000 ...
The Sony Open is the first full-field event of the year and a traditional starting point for the newcomers. The PGA Tour schedule is back to a calendar year, and it seemed to be a good time to ...
The smaller field, which drops from 120 players to between 70-74, will play for $20 million in prize money, with the winner taking home $4 million (compared to $3.5 million last year).
As part of its plan to route more money to the game’s top players, the PGA Tour instituted “signature events,” limited-field, larger-purse events that carry more weight in the annual FedEx ...
[3] [4] From 1986 through 2013, it was the opening event of each tour season; the PGA Tour switched to its wrap-around season (starting season in September and ending in August) in the fall of 2013. In 2025, Hideki Matsuyama shot the lowest 72-hole to-par score in the history of the PGA Tour (−35) to win the tournament.
The PGA Championship increased its total purse to a record $18.5 million this year, up $1 million from last year’s tournament at Oak Hill. That left an impressive $3.3 million payday for ...