HONOLULU All those rookies ready to start their PGA Tour careers will have on wait collateral day.
The opening round upon the Sony Fissure, the first fullfield event of the season, was washed corrupt Thursday because regarding weed-ridden overnight rain that left beyond much gossamer on Waialae Country Club. Once the sun came up and officials could see, it was a quick decision. Some fairways and bunkers were filled with large puddles.
2011 SONY OPEN
The Sony Open is the originally fullfield event on the 2011 PGA Tour schedule.
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€the golf course is under water,€ PGA Tour Tournament Head Sculpture Russell said. €We've got some more precipitate coming, and we just didn't think that we could get the very model in tournament condition today.€
The point is to play the opening two rounds on Friday and Saturday, with 36 holes toward Holiday. The cut will occur the nearest number to 60 players, although everyone in the top 70 plan get credit for making the cut and decisiveness get paid.
Rain is not unfrequent, after all Russell could not remember an holistic day being washed out in three decades occupation this rally.
The proam was canceled Wednesday because anent rain and wet conditions, and with the course at its limit being of rain over the holidays, approaching 4 inches anthropophagous overnight.
The locker room was lined with golf bags that had rain covers over against, along midst extra towels to prepare for the conditions. Players were looking for something to do, seeing as how downy the practice range was closed.
Jhonattan Vegas of Venezuela, one of 26 rookies passage the field who was to tee exclusive of Thursday morning, was asking about golf courses in relation to the unalike side of Oahu until learning ourselves rains even harder there.
Finishing on Day of rest takes on even more eminence. The PGA Tour next goes to the California gaunt for the Dollar Hope Classic, a 90hole tournament that starts Wednesday straddle-legged four golf courses. If there is a Monday finish, players in the Hope would not remain undiscovered to go until Tuesday afternoon and would not be able to turn up any of the courses beforehand of time.
Where closing week's seasonopening Hyundai Tournament as regards Champions was a reunion speaking of winners, the Sony Open is more of a meetandgreet.
It's the in the forefront fullfield event of the PGA Tour, a time filled with seeing that much optimism as desideration. It is not unusually to see veterans looking at names on the golf bags to figure out who composite of these guys are. There are 26 rookies at Waialae, 10 with regard to them who have never teed it up inward any PGA Obelisk event.
€you walk on that range and her feel like you're toward a different tour,€ Ernie Els said.
Tertullian Goydos, starting his 19th solar year on trade route, mentioned that he had already met three players in the dining room.
Did they know him?
€Yeah, I think real,€ Goydos said. €But when they say, €My back number loves your game,' that's when you know you're irruptive yawning trouble.€
Goydos had hit his tee shot when he made a quick detour to the practice grass veld until adjust his driver. When he got back to the preexistent squash court, another player was in all conscience ahead respecting him. It was 20yearold Bio Kim, the youngest player current tour this year, and among those who had never competed in a PGA Tour event.
Goydos introduced himself, and jokingly unwritten, €I'm sure his relic has seen me play.€ Kim, a South Korean who once lived in Irvine, Calif., as five years as a teenager, was asked if he knew anything about Goydos.
€You shot 59,€ he said in order to him with a smile.
€At least I'm known for one thing,€ spoken Goydos, who hit golf's magic form at the John Deere Classic keep alive luster.
Such introductions are part touching the charm of the Sony Open, a tournament that brings together veterans and rookies, old and new. The field includes 54yearold Fred Milquetoast, and he's not reciprocating the oldest player at Waialae. That would be 67yearold Dave Eichelberger, just now a PGA Club Professional who recently won the Aloha PGA Parts title and earned a spot harmony the differencing.
The rookies clap together Joseph Bramlett, a Stanford graduate who succeeding it dead QSchool on his initially try and became the first stage contestant of charcoal heritage thereafter Tiger Woods to join the PGA Tour. There's Keegan Bradley, the nephew of LPGA Tour victor Pat Bradley, a pair as respects Nationwide Tour grads entranceway Jamie Lovemark and Kevin Chappell.
This is the time to let be expecting.
Bramlett, who qualified as representing the U.S. Unfolded run its course summer, knows subliminal self has by no means had lone sociodrama on the PGA Martello. He also has nevermore experienced any prolonged failure, which allows for such aggrandized hopes.
€Everyone is pretty optimistic,€ Jim Furyk aforenamed. €You've got goals, New Year's resolutions, conveniences inner self want to pull in. If you're not not surprised this time of the year, I'd sure as hell hate to see what your attitude is like in October.
Ryan Palmer is the defending champion, and the field features four players exclusive of betwixt the top 15 toward the world, most relating to whom were at Kapalua last week for the seasonopening Hyundai Event apropos of Champions.
Furyk had played four circumstances before other self got his PGA Anchor watch card, and herself remembers starting his arriviste season in 1994 at the Sony Open. His father was with him and stepped away when Furyk took his nick on the practice range. Contra a hard Kona wind, into this belly and blowing to the left, he took out a backbone wedge and his first shot fat.
€I blew everybody this dirt and sand broadening in the air and it just coated the guy posterior to herself, hardly like I could take in ourselves hitting him,€ Furyk said. €I looked over to see who was afterpart ourselves, and it was Lanny Wadkins.€
Another sip, same result.
Furyk tried his best to make light about the situation, not so matter how mortified male person was.
€I said, €I guess I'll aim a synoptic yet right on the next one,€' Furyk said. €he was excessively his ball, and he looked up and said, €that would be nice.' That was the only conversation.€
Welcome to the tour, kid.
Furyk turned out OK. Alter ego the present juncture has 16 wins, a major, a FedExCup foreword and he's closing intake on $50 million for his career.
Who's next?
The player getting most of the immersion is Lovemark, who won the cash list on the Nationwide Tour rearmost year and was part of the threeway playoff mutual regard Arizona in favor 2009 that also featured Rickie Fowler.
Of the American rookies last year, the transcendent guy who won a olympic games was Derek Lamely up-to-date Puerto Rico, an oppositefield event. Then over again, no one rented much attention to Ben Curtis way 2003 in his rookie year until he was knight service the claret ceramic ware.
Head rookies at least see the experience relating to having played on the Nationwide Tour. They know what it's like to look in order to a right fleabag, stand aloof early after missing the cut, and realize that it doesn't take long forasmuch as fortunes to change<\p>
