| NOTES | | | Now that the first week is in the books, the PGA Tour really gets started
with its first full-field event of 2012. For the second week in a row, the
tour is in Hawaii, where Mark Wilson will attempt to defend his championship
at the Sony Open. It was the first of his two titles in 2011, winning two of
his first three events before falling back to the middle of the pack the rest
of the year. It was a marathon for Wilson, who had to play 36 holes that
Sunday because of poor weather earlier in the week. He managed to outlast Tim
Clark and Steve Marino by a pair of strokes to earn nearly $1 million, his
second biggest paycheck of the year. The top-ranked player in the field is
No. 5 Steve Stricker, who is coming off a victory at the Hyundai Tournament
of Champions. Stricker, who is now a 12-time PGA Tour champion, has been one
of the best golfers of recent years, posting eight wins since the start of
2009. Other than Stricker, some of the more recognizable names in the field
include reigning PGA Champion Keegan Bradley, three-time major winner Vijay
Singh and FedEx Cup runner-up Webb Simpson. Additionally, last year`s
Nationwide Tour money leader J.J. Killeen and Harris English, who won as an
amateur on the Nationwide Tour last year, will get their first crack at the
PGA Tour since earning their cards for 2012. Unlike the Tournament of
Champions, the Sony Open ends on the traditional day of Sunday. Golf Channel
will have coverage of all four rounds. Next week is the Humana Classic,
renamed from the Bob Hope Classic, which was won by then-rookie Jhonattan
Vegas in 2011.
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