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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
KAPALUA -- Justin Thomas won the SBS Tournament of Champions on Sunday at the Kapalua Plantation Course, giving him three career victories on the PGA Tour. Thomas won by three shots -- he overcame a double bogey on the par-5 15th hole and closed with a 4-under-par 69 to finish at 22-under 270, fending off a challenge by Hideki Matsuyama. Thomas was the only player in the field of 32 to shoot under 70 in all four rounds. Thomas’ previous two wins were at the CIMB Classic in October and in 2015. His victory a year ago was the only event Matsuyama had not won in his ...
