{"id":270460,"date":"2023-01-05T10:57:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T10:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/?p=270460"},"modified":"2023-01-05T13:07:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T13:07:40","slug":"expect-a-birdie-fest-in-hawaii-while-fitzpatrick-kim-and-fit-again-zalatoris-make-their-bow-in-sentry-tournament-of-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/expect-a-birdie-fest-in-hawaii-while-fitzpatrick-kim-and-fit-again-zalatoris-make-their-bow-in-sentry-tournament-of-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Expect a birdie fest in Hawaii while Fitzpatrick, Kim and fit-again Zalatoris make their bow in Tournament of Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Be prepared for lots of birdies as the PGA Tour opens the year in Hawaii where 39 players will be battling out for a newly-enlarged first prize at the 2022 Sentry Tournament of Champions.<\/p>\n<p>Open to all the PGA Tour\u2019s 2022 winners plus the top 30 in the FedExCup from last season, a third of the field will be making their debut in an event which now boasts a first prize of $2.7m.<\/p>\n<p>The Tournament of Champions is one of 17 PGA events with \u2018elevated\u2019 status as the most prestigious golf tour in the world attempts to hold back the LIV Golf tide.<\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix Open, RBC Heritage Wells and Travelers Championship were also added to the \u2018elevated\u2019 list back in October.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">All smiles in Hawaii \ud83d\ude0e <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SmNq1YqIkW\">pic.twitter.com\/SmNq1YqIkW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PGATOUR\/status\/1610728145245577216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Poignantly last year\u2019s champion Cameron Smith won\u2019t be back to defend a title he won with a record-breaking 34 under par. Jon Rahm (-33) and Matt Jones (-31) also feasted on the par 73 track.<\/p>\n<p>Smith was the most under par in PGA Tour history, breaking the record of -31 previously held by Ernie Els, also at Kapalua, in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>One of those making his debut is US Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick, who partners Rahm in the second-to-last group out. With a ten-hour time difference, the European heavyweights will tee off at 10.35pm our time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/callaway-paradym-carbon-chassis-drivers-prove-a-deserving-headline-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">RELATED: Rahm and Schauffele set to debut new Callaway Paradym\u00a0driver in Hawaii<\/span><\/a><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-year-old South Korean sensation Tom Kim will go out alongside 2016 champion Jordan Spieth in the group ahead. If Kim wins again in the next two months he will become the youngest to earn three PGA Tour victories, breaking the record held by Gene Sarazen (1922).<\/p>\n<p>Will Zalatoris also makes his return from a long-term injury problem<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GolfTodayUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">.<\/a> The big-hitting American, who is also making his first appearance at the Tournament of Champions, has not been seen since the BMW Championship in August.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">137 days since he last teed it up.<\/p>\n<p>141 days since he won <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FedExChamp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FedExChamp<\/a> in a thrilling playoff.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WillZalatoris?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WillZalatoris<\/a> returns to action this week @Sentry_TOC \ud83d\udcaa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pMG9a1PbSf\">pic.twitter.com\/pMG9a1PbSf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PGATOUR\/status\/1610785231568801793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>39 players do battle at Kapalua with elevated prize money on offer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":270464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[247,437,129,1473,503,9175,6909],"class_list":["post-270460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the_tours","tag-ernie-els","tag-jon-rahm","tag-jordan-spieth","tag-matt-fitzpatrick","tag-sentry-tournament-of-champions","tag-tom-kim","tag-will-zalatoris"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.3 (Yoast SEO v23.3) - 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