Waialae Country Club, a private club near Diamond Head and the famed Waikiki Beach, has been a part of the PGA Tour schedule since 1965. In 2017, Justin Thomas eagled the 18th to

Call this the “other” opening week for the PGA Tour. The new year began with most of the Tour’s best playing at Kapalua in the Sentry, the first of eight signature events on the 2025 schedule. Just about every big name save the hand-injury recovering Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy were in Maui.

The PGA Tour will remain in Hawaii for another week for the 2025 Sony Open, which is played at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu. The first round of this full-field event begins on Thursday morning from the island of Oahu and continues through Sunday.

Just two of the seven golfers who have turned this trick did so by winning the Hawaiian stops in consecutive weeks.

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Hideki Matsuyama is favored to pull off the Hawaii sweep with a win at the Sony Open after winning The Sentry. / Kyle Terada-Imagn Images Hideki Matsuyama has won the first PGA Tour event of 2025, capturing the Sentry while also setting the PGA Tour record for the lowest score to par at 35 under.

Sony Open in Hawaii marks the second event of the season on the PGA Tour, with the first full-field event unfolding from Thursday through Sunday at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu, Hawaii. This week's PGA Tour event has an $8.