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John Oda will have to wait until Monday morning to complete his first round of the 2019 Web.com Tour season. Through 15 holes, Oda is 8 under and two shots clear of the field at the Bahamas Great Exuma Classic at Sandals Emerald Bay. The former UNLV product eagled his opening hole and added seven […]

It got a little closer than he would have liked, but in the end Matt Kuchar enjoyed a stress-free stroll down the 72nd fairway at Waialae Country Club. Here’s how things ended up in Honolulu, where Kuchar earned his second win of the wraparound season at the Sony Open: Leaderboard: Matt Kuchar (-22), Andrew Putnam […]

Prize money payouts and FedExCup points breakdowns for winner Matt Kuchar and the rest of the players who made the cut at the 2019 Sony Open: Finish Player FedEx Earnings ($) 1 Matt Kuchar 500 1,152,000 2 Andrew Putnam 300 691,200 3 Corey Conners 134 307,200 3 Marc Leishman 134 307,200 3 Chez Reavie 134 […]

Sony Open winner Matt Kuchar put on a ballstriking clinic this week at Waialae Country Club, tying for fourth in driving accuracy and leading the field in greens-in-regulation percentage. Kuchar hit 60 of 72, or 83.33 percent, of his greens in regulation. On the season, Kuchar is eighth on Tour in the category at 78.82 […]

HONOLULU – Following his victory last fall at the Mayakoba Golf Classic, his first on the PGA Tour in over four years, Matt Kuchar’s first thought  was “aloha.” The victory checked off a lot of boxes for the 40-year-old, but the one that immediately came to mind was that he’d qualified for the winner’s-only Sentry […]

HONOLULU – Although he came up four strokes short in his quest to win for the second time on the PGA Tour, Andrew Putnam left the Sony Open with one reason to be optimistic. The third-year Tour player paced the field with 447 feet of putts made. To put that into context, Matt Kuchar, who won […]

After bagging his second win in the last three months, Matt Kuchar made another jump in the latest installment of the Official World Golf Ranking. Kuchar captured the Sony Open with a closing 66, turning a two-shot lead into a four-shot margin of victory. As a result, he moved up 10 spots to No. 22 […]

Internet sensation Hosung Choi has accepted a sponsor exemption into next month’s AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. It’s the first Tour start for Choi, the South Korean journeyman who now has a legion of fans after his unorthodox swing made the rounds on social media. The 45-year-old, who is ranked 200th in the world, has […]

Let’s look back in history at this week in golf from Jan. 14-20. Information courtesy Golf Channel Research unit. Jan. 15, 2004: Michelle Wie makes her PGA Tour debut when she tees it up in the Sony Open in Hawaii at the age of 14 years, 2 months, 29 days. Jan. 16, 2000: Paul Azinger wins the […]

John Oda overcame a double bogey Monday to maintain his lead at the Web.com Tour’s season opener. The UNLV product offset his double on the par-4 fifth hole with six birdies as part of a second-round, 4-under 68. At 13 under, Oda leads the Bahamas Great Exuma Classic at Sandals Emerald Bay by two shots over Marty Dou, […]