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SBS Tournament of Champions

Kapalua stages more drama

KAPALUA — The Kapalua Plantation Course keeps finding new ways to provide excitement. This time, the drama down the stretch of the SBS Tournament of Champions came not from a finish full of fireworks, but from a two-hole span that included shots remarkable for both quality and costliness ...

SBS Tournament of Champions: No doubting Thomas

KAPALUA — He’s the only man in the world who has been able to slow down Japan’s 24-year-old rapidly rising son in the last three months, but Justin Thomas is much more than that. Thomas watched his lead shrink from five shots to one on the 14th and 15th holes in Sunday’s final ...

Matsuyama comes up short

KAPALUA — Hideki Matsuyama put some pressure on Justin Thomas. Not much later, though, Matsuyama also gave Thomas some breathing room. Matsuyama got within a shot of the SBS Tournament of Champions lead Sunday at the Kapalua Plantation Course, but his bid for a fifth win in his last six ...

Perez continues strong comeback from injury

KAPALUA — With hair down to his shoulders and Bill Murray logos on the front his hat and back of his shirt, Pat Perez doesn’t look like a 40-year-old member of the PGA Tour. In his first trip to the Kapalua Plantation Course in seven years, Perez showed that he can still play with the ...

Hole of the day

549 yards • Par 4 This is where the title was essentially decided, as Justin Thomas made a birdie while Hideki Matsuyama took a bogey. In all, the 17th played 0.125 shots under par in the final round — only five holes had a better scoring average — with eight birdies, two bogeys and ...

Thomas makes his move

KAPALUA — With five holes to play Saturday, Justin Thomas was part of a three-way tie for the lead in the third round of the SBS Tournament of Champions. Then the 23-year-old stepped to the 305-yard, par-4 14th hole at the Kapalua Plantation Course and drove the green, smacking his ...