Hyundai Tournament of Champions Predictions and Betting Odds
 What: Hyundai Tournament of Champions
When: January 6 - 9, 2012
Where: The Plantation Course • Kapalua Resort, Maui
Format: 72-hole Individual Stroke Play (no cut)
Defending Champion: Jonathan Byrd
 KAPALUA – The Hyundai Tournament of Champions will be the 2012 PGA Tour season-opening event, will be held Friday night on the 6th and ending on Monday the 9th, at The Plantation Course in Kapalua. Hyundai Tournament of Champions is formerly Mercedes-Benz and before that was known as Tournament of Champions.
The Hyundai Tournament of Champions is a unique PGA tour event since the playing field contains only those golfers who won a PGA tour event in the previous season. Thus, it always attracts an elite field of the best golfers in the world. The tournament's purse is another attraction to PGA pros, with a Purse around $5.5 million, with the winner taking home about $1.1 million.
Over the years the field has included most of the world's greatest golfers, Tiger Woods, Vijay Singh, Ernie Els, Retief Goosen, Stuart Appleby and Davis Love III to name just a few.
This is the 14th consecutive season that the Kapalua Resort's Plantation course on the island of Maui plays host to the Hyundai Tournament of Champions. The previous longest hosting was when the tournament and former Tournament of Champions was annually played at the La Costa Resort in Carlsbad California.
The Plantation Course
The grand scale of the course, designed by Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore, winds like a brilliant green ribbon across spectacular natural geographic formations and pristine pineapple plantation fields.
This par 73, 7,411-yard course, is the course of the champions; Kapalua Resort is a 22,000-acre; master-planned community set amidst two nature preserves and pineapple fields on Maui's northwest coast. The resort is renowned for its world-class golf courses, The Bay and The Plantation.
Last Years Hyundai Tournament of Champions Results
In 2011 Jonathan Byrd upset the ante-post odds to win the Hyundai Tournament of Champions as he defeat Robert Garrigus in a play-off. Geoff Ogilvy had headed the betting in his seach for a third consecutive Champions win but fell short in his efforts to match compatriot Stuart Appleby's feat from 2004 to 2006.
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The Hawaii Open: What is known now as the Sony Open in Hawaii will be the next golf event on the US PGA Tour calendar after the Tournament of Champions and it is an event that has been dominated by American golfers in the past.
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