While the rest of the world is freezing their tails off in the Eastern part of America, the best golfers in the world will be in Hawaii at the beautiful Kapalua resort. It’s hard to imagine how the players stay focused with the temperature being perfect, and the sights and sounds being so beautiful. But, I believe that defending champion Vijay Singh will be more than up for the challenge of defending his title.
The Mercedez-Benz championship got it’s start in another warm city, Las Vegas in the year 1953. In 1968 it moved to California for 30 years, before finding it’s home in Hawaii, where they are happy to have them.
When you think of any tournament, in recent times, you usually would think Tiger Woods has the most wins, but that isn’t the case with this tournament. While Woods has won it twice, fellow American Stuart Applebee has won it three times, all in a row from 2003 to 2006. All of the names wrote up until this point are expected to play, included all the other big names. After all, who can pass up on Hawaii? The all-time winner of the event is none other than the Golden Bear himself Jack Nicklaus.
Last year Singh took home a cool 1.1 million dollars, and that’s right around what the winner will be making this year.
What’s unique about this tournament is that you can only play in it if you won a tournament on the PGA tour the preceding year. That means only 34 people are invited to this tournament, and that’s why almost all the members of the field are names you’ve heard of.
The course itself is beautiful and offers some of the most breathtaking views anywhere in the world. It’s a par 73 course, and 7,411 yards long. The course designers were Ben Crenshaw and Bill Corre, and they obviously took the time to make sure every step of the course was one beautiful view after another.
While we are sitting by the fireplace back at our homes, let’s not try to be too jealous as the best golfers in the world make their attempt at taking home the over one million dollar prize.
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