Event: 2012 Sony Open in Hawaii
Date: Jan 09, 2012 - Jan 15, 2012
Venue: Waialae Country Club

The 2012 Sony Open second golf tournament in Hawaii, that kicks off the PGA TOUR season each January in Honolulu. PGA TOUR golf professionals will tee up competing for a share of the $5,500,000 purse with Sunday's champion taking home $990,000 in prize money. Each January the Sony Open brings 144 of the world's best professional golfers to the Waialae Country Club on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. The old course and old tournament are a great start for the PGA golf betting season.

Don't miss out on the golf betting action at the 2012 Sony Open in Hawaii. With unique anticipation only the Sony Open can offer, defending champion Mark Wilson faces former champs, Zach Johnson, K.J Choi, Ernie Els, Vijay Singh, Paul Azinger and others vying make their dreams a reality on the Seth Raynor-designed Waialae Course.

For much of its history, which dates to 1965, the tournament was known as the Hawaiian Open. Sony became the title sponsor in 1999. The Sony Open is the second tournament on the PGA Tour's schedule, taking place in early to mid-January and following the SBS Championship.

The Course

Designed by Seth Raynor and Charles Banks, and opened in 1927, the course at Waialea Country Club recently ranked as the 28th most difficult of the 54 PGA Tour courses. It plays to a hefty 7,044 yards for the Sony Open.

Davis Love III holds the 18-hole course record with a score of 60 (1994). John Huston (1998) and Brad Faxon (2001) jointly hold the 72-hole tournament record with a score of 260.

A tournament stimpmeter rating of 13 will make the bermuda grass greens seem like a billiards table. Added to the putting challenge, the 84 bunkers and nine water hazards make the Sony Open a challenge, year-in and year-out.

2011 Sony Open Winner and Results

There were a lot of questions heading into the first full field PGA TOUR event of the 2011 season and Mark Wilson answered a lot of them. The 36-year old Wilson was bogey free Sunday en route to winning for the 3rd time in his PGA TOUR career. The final 36 holes were played on Sunday and because of that the cut was 56 players, instead of the normal low 70 and ties.

2010 PGA Sony Open Results

Ryan Palmer (FSY) expected the worst when his chip from 50 feet short of the 18th green came out a little strong. Seconds later, he never felt better.

His chip struck the pin squarely, and instead of running about 8 feet past the hole, it settled a few inches away. Palmer tapped in for a birdie and a 4-under 66, giving him a one-shot victory in the Sony Open when Robert Allenby (FSY) missed a 10-foot birdie putt.

"What a way to start the year," Palmer said.

All week long at the Sony Open, he tried to stay in the moment, a lesson he picked up earlier in the week while reading an article about defending champion Zach Johnson (FSY). The chip turned out to be the greatest moment of all.

"It was a good chip," Palmer said. "The grain was running against me. It was either going to hit it fat or do what I did. Fortunately, I got the good break."

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