PGA Tour golfers stay in the beautiful Hawaiian setting to stage the Sony Open in Hawaii ($7.9 million prize pool). The event, born in 1965, came to the end of the first day with some protagonists stopped at the end of Thursday by the fall of darkness.
In command we find a trio of Americans made up of Jordan Spieth, Chris Kirk, and Taylor Montgomery.
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The pacesetters lead the leaderboard with a score of -6 (64 shots) and boast a margin length on the Slovak Rory Sabbatini, on the South Korean S.H.
Kim, and compatriots David Lipsky, Ben Griffin, Brendon Todd, Denny McCarthy, and Harris English. It should be noted that Kim was stopped after completing the 16th hole and could adjust his score before the start of the second round.
On the par 70 course of the Waialae Country Club in Honolulu (Hawaii, United States) a very short ranking with 78 golfers capable of filing the first round with scores below par. -2 and 41st place for Hideki Matsuyama. The Japanese, winner of the 2022 edition, is off to a good start in his title defense and will try to break into the top ten from Friday.
Difficulties instead for the Americans Ryan Palmer, Richy Werensky and Keith Mitchell, respectively in the rear with +1, +3 and +4. Debut round to forget also for the Swede David Lingmerth, 126th at +3. In the Italian evening, space for the second round which will bring the first skimming and the inevitable cut.
The PGA Tour is an organization that curates major professional golf tours in the United States. It is based in Ponte Vedra Beach, a suburb of Jacksonville, Florida. Its official name is written in all capital letters, i.e. “PGA TOUR”.
The PGA Tour became its own organization in 1968, when it split from the PGA of America, which is now primarily an association of golf professionals, such as instructors and club managers. Tournament players first formed their own organization, the Association of Professional Golfers (APG).
Later, in 1968, the players abolished the APG and agreed to operate as the PGA “Tournament Players Division”, a fully autonomous division of the PGA, overseen by a new 10-member Tournament Policy Board. The name then officially changed to “PGA Tour” in 1975.
In 1981, it had a marketing dispute with the PGA of America and decided to officially change its name. From the end of August of that year it becomes “TPA Tour”, which stands for “Tournament Players Association”. The dispute was resolved within seven months and the name of the tour reverted to being “PGA Tour” in March 1982.
Due to the multiplicity of similar denominations, it is good to explain what the PGA Tour does and does not do. The PGA Tour does not operate any of the major four tournaments or the Ryder Cup. The PGA of America, not the PGA Tour, organizes the PGA Championship, the Senior PGA Championship, and co-organises the Ryder Cup with the PGA European Tour.
The PGA Tour is not involved in the women’s tours of the United States, which are controlled by the LPGA. Furthermore, the PGA Tour is not the official body that regulates the game of golf in the United States: this is instead the role of the USGA, which also organizes the U.S.
open. Instead, what the PGA Tour does is organize all the rest of the golf events week after week, including The Players Championship and the FedEx Cup as well as the biennial Presidents Cup.
