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Paradise not always peaceful during tour’s Hawaii swing
HONOLULU (AP) Paradise is not always peaceful when it comes to the PGA Tour’s two-week swing through Hawaii.
Dating to 1999, the tour has started its new years with two tournaments on two islands in the Pacific where the palm trees sway, the humpback whales breach and the tropical air warms the soul, if not the face.
But it’s been rare to get through two weeks without some form of chaos over the last 10 years.
The latest involved Justin Thomas, who until this year had nothing but happy memories of the 50th state. He has won the Sentry Tournament of Champions twice. He shot 59 in the Sony Open in 2017 and went on to set the PGA Tour’s scoring record at 253 in a seven-shot victory.