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2025 Sony Open in Hawaii at Waialae Country Club

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Congratulations to our 2024 champion Grayson Murray who stared down a 38-foot, 7-inch birdie putt on the first hole of a three-man playoff and drained it. Murray said, “I kept telling Jay, (his caddie), we’re hitting good putts, we’re hitting them right where we want, and we’re going to have one drop today, and it’s going to be big… and it might be for the win.”

Murray’s miraculous and much-deserved Sony Open in Hawaii win comes after his last appearance at Waialae in 2021 included an off-course incident that placed him on TOUR probation. After choosing to take care of himself and live his life differently, Murray won twice on the Korn Ferry Tour last year and regained exempt status on the PGA TOUR. “My story is not finished. I think it’s just the beginning,” Murray said. “I hope I can inspire a lot of people going forward that have their own issues.

This is his second PGA TOUR victory in six years, five months and 22 days since the 2017 Barbasol Championship. He closed in 3-under 67 in Sunday’s final round at Waialae Country Club that included a clutch birdie at 18 in regulation to force his way into the playoff with Byeong Hun An and Keegan Bradley. Murray finished with a score of 17-under 263.

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3人によるプレーオフの1ホール目、38フィート7インチのバーディーパットを見事に決めた2024年チャンピオンのグレイソン・マレー選手、おめでとうございます。マレー選手は、「ジェイ（彼のキャディ）に言い続けたんだ。いいパットを打っているし、狙ったところに打てている。そして今日はドロップする、そしてそれは大きくなるだろうと言い続けた…そして」と語った。「それは勝利のためだったんだ。」

2021年にワイアラエに出場した際コース外でのアクシデントでツアー出場停止処分を受けたマレー選手の、奇跡的かつ至極当然なソニーオープン・イン・ハワイ優勝。自分自身を大切にし、これまでとは違う生き方を選択したマレー選手は、昨年コーン・フェリー・ツアーで2勝を挙げ、PGAツアーのエグゼンプト・ステータスを取り戻した。「私の物語は終わっていない。まだ始まったばかりだ。これから先、自分自身の問題を抱えている多くの人たちに勇気を与えることができればと思います。」

PGAツアーでは2017年のバルバソル選手権以来、6年5カ月22日ぶり2度目の優勝となった。 ワイアラエ・カントリー・クラブで行われた日曜日の最終ラウンドで、彼は3アンダーの67でフィニッシュした。このラウンドでは、18番でバーディーを奪い、安秉勲（アン・ビョンホン）選手、キーガン・ブラッドリー選手とのプレーオフに持ち込んだ。マレー選手は通算17アンダーの263でフィニッシュした。

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By Tom LaMarre, Contributor

KAPALUA, Hawaii - It was Arnold Palmer who put Kapalua on the map, not Tiger Woods and Ernie Els, who simply rewrote it in boldface type.

Palmer was the architect of the first two golf courses created at the Kapalua Resort on Maui - the Bay Course , which opened in 1975, and the Village, which came along five years later.

They were followed by the renowned Plantation Course , designed by Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore, which opened in 1989.

The Plantation Course made its reputation in the Lincoln Mercury Kapalua Invitational, an unofficial PGA Tour event, long before Woods and Els waged perhaps the greatest battle on Maui since Kamehameha the Great defeated the Valley Island's warriors on the cliffs of the Iao Valley in 1790 to unite Hawaii once and for all.

But Woods and Els took advantage of that great stage of the technological age, international television, in the second year the PGA Tour moved its season-opening Mercedes Championships to Kapalua.

"The Lincoln Mercury was a nice event, but we went from the opening event of the unofficial PGA Tour season to the opening event of the official season," said Gary Planos, vice president of resort operations and tournament director of the Mercedes Championships. "The difference is light years.

"It's the first tournament of the year, it's on national television in prime time, it has an elite field of winners only and next year it will lead right into to the Super Bowl. It's been great exposure for our resort. Anyone who comes here wants to play where Tiger and Ernie played."

That would be the daunting 663-yard 18th hole, which can be reached with two long, precise shots because it plays dramatically downhill toward the ocean with the prevailing wind.

Els and Woods were tied for the lead going to the final hole in the 2000 Mercedes. Both made eagle to force a playoff, starting on the 18th, where both made birdie and continued on to the first hole.

There, Woods sank a dramatic 35-foot downhill putt to win the tournament.

"Not only is the 18th a great hole, it's perfectly positioned to provide a great finish," Planos said. "It's come right down to the wire there each year we've had the tournament. (In 2002), Sergio Garcia beat David Toms in a playoff on the 18th.

"It's such a great arena there around the green. With the skyboxes and the room we have around the green, we can have 10,000 people right on top of the action, and on television it looks like an even bigger crowd. It leaves a lasting impression with people who are watching."

Another memorable hole on the Plantation Course is the 203-yard eighth, which plays across a canyon of natural vegetation to a green that slopes from back to front, with a series of traps in the back to catch shots by those who use an extra club or two to ensure they carry the precipice.

Hit your tee shot short and you need a new ball.

"There's no question it's an intimidating hole, even from the 180-yard tee," said Marty Keiter, director of golf and tennis at Kapalua. "But it's a challenge recreational golfers want, to try to hit the same shots they see the pros hit on television.

"There usually isn't much wind there, so if you hit a good tee shot you have a chance to make birdie or par."

The Plantation is definitely the jewel of Kapalua, designed with extra-wide fairways because of the trade winds, but there is plenty of challenge to be found on the Village and Bay courses.

The Bay Course plays mostly on a plateau just above the Pacific, with two holes right on the water. The Village climbs 750 feet into the West Maui Mountains to an idyllic spot where two holes play through Cook pines alongside a freshwater lake.

"Even though the Plantation Course is the best-known of the three, we still have more rounds played every year on the Bay Course," Keiter said. "The Bay is the course where people are most likely to play to their handicap.

"The Village Course is our sleeper. People who have come here for years but never played it are amazed what's up there once they do. You can see the ocean from every hole."

When a new clubhouse opened at the Village Course in 2000, the 18th hole became No. 1, playing downhill almost to the ocean.

However, the dramatic 465-yard hole, with the green guarded by a lake on the right side, had to be shortened to 211 yards.

"There were too many tee shots being hit onto the grounds of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel," Keiter said. "But that's okay. It was a great par four before, but now I think it's a great par three."

At the top of the hill, the 345-yard sixth with the lake on the right is a sharp dogleg left on which the driver is best kept in the bag.

The tee shot on the 367-yard sixth hole at the top of the course carries severely down the hill through a chute of towering Cook pines and the short-iron approach is tricky because it is downhill and downwind, with the pin often tucked close to the lake.

"You can also have a downhill lie if you go past the plateau in the fairway," Keiter said. "It's a short shot, but if you hit it too short, it gets wet."

On the Bay Course, the 357-yard fourth hole is a short but deceptive par four with a large bunker waiting for shots trying to cut the corner, pushed that way by the prevailing wind off the ocean.

It's followed by the 205-yard fifth, which sits on a lava promontory and is perhaps the most scenic hole at Kapalua, and requires a tee shot with a tailwind over Oneola Bay. Three traps guard the green.

"Those are our only two holes that are right on the ocean," Keiter said. "No. 4 is a great short par four, with the ocean on the right and lava rocks on the left. The tee shot on the fifth is intimidating, but with the wind most people go long and that's better than short."

Golf instruction at Kapalua Resort

If your game needs some work while you are at Kapalua, you came to the right place. One condition the PGA Tour had before committing to Kapalua was a new driving range, so the Kapalua Golf Academy-with 85,000-square-feet of grass tee area-was born.

And Kapalua has the right man in charge, Jerry King, two-time Hawaii PGA State Teaching Pro of the Year.

"It's not one way or the highway at the Kapalua Golf Academy, but we do have a guideline all of our teaching pros follow," said King, who is working on a book and CD-ROM called Golf for Life. "We call it BPGA: Ball position, posture, grip and alignment. We feel about 95% of the problems for golfers fall into those categories.

"We feel one mistake causes a domino effect in the swing. We don't focus on the effect, we work on the cause. The videotaping bay is our pride and joy. We have over $30,000 of video equipment, with four camera angles. And our facility overlooks Honolua Bay, the biggest surfing spot on Maui, at the end of the Molokai Channel."

When your golf day is finished at Kapalua, there is a myriad of other activities available if you are staying at the Ritz Carlton or Kapalua Bay hotels, or in the Kapalua Villas.

The beach at the Kapalua Bay Hotel has been chosen one of the best in the world by the Travel Channel and Dr. Beach.

"The entire Kapalua property is tough to beat," said Cany Aluli, public relations manager for the Kapalua Bay Hotel. "The Ritz is the larger of the hotels, with a more formal feeling. The Bay Hotel is more laid back, more of a boutique hotel.

"The Mercedes Championships brings everybody together-people at the golf courses, the hotels and restaurants, and the shops. In fact, all of Maui gets involved. We like to point out that the winner has stayed at the Bay Hotel every year except when Tiger won."

The concierge desk at the hotels can arrange tennis at Kapalua's two world-class facilities, scuba diving, snorkeling, helicopter tours, horseback riding, kayaking or sight-seeing tours to the dormant volcano on Mt. Haleakala and the sleepy hamlet of Hana.

Kapalua has several options for fine dining, with the Plantation House Restaurant overlooking its showcase golf course, Jameson's at the Bay Course, Fleming's on the Green at the Village Course, the Bay Club, the Gardenia Court and the Plumeria Terrace at the Bay Hotel and the Anuenue Room and the Banyan Tree at the Ritz-Carlton.

There also is world-class shopping at the Kapalua Shops and down the road at the Lahaina Cannery Mall and at Whaler's Village in Kaanapali.

It was at Kaanapali that Bob Charles of New Zealand, the 1963 British Open champion, helped get the little white ball rolling on Maui with what has become a classic episode of "Shell's Wonderful World of Golf" that same year. And in 1965 Palmer and Jack Nicklaus won the Canada Cup (now the World Cup) on the North Course.

Kaanapali has fallen on hard times with the financial problems of its parent company, AMFAC, which lost the Senior PGA Tour's Kaanapali Classic in 2000 after 14 years and is now in receivership.

But the Tournament North and Resort South courses, which fell into a bit of disrepair in the last few years, have rebounded with the arrival of a new staff that includes Ed Kageyama, a PGA pro who was appointed by the courts as consultant to the receivership.

"I heard all the horror stories the last few years, but I played the North Course recently and it was in fine shape," said Barry Helle, marketing manager of the Wailea Golf Resort on the other side of Maui. "I'm impressed with the people they have in there now.

"Kaanapali has a good product that is a great asset to Maui and I'm glad to see them coming back."

There are plenty of places to stay in Kaanapali, long one of the world's top golf destinations, including the venerable Royal Lahaina Resort, the Sheraton Maui, the Hyatt Regency Maui, the Kaanapali Beach Hotel and the Marriott Maui-not to mention countless condominiums.

Kaanapali is a good spot to make a base for playing golf on both sides of the island, including the Wailea and Makena resorts on the South side, or points in between such as the Dunes at Maui Lani , Sandalwood Golf Course or Pukalani Country Club in the Up Country.

You can even make a day trip to the island of Lanai to play the Challenge at Manele , designed by Nicklaus, or the Experience at Koele , designed by Greg Norman.

January 8, 2004

Tom LaMarre, Contributor

Tom LaMarre has been a sportswriter and copy editor in California for parts of five decades, including 15 years with the Oakland Tribune and 22 with the Los Angeles Times.

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The truth is, there are no bad golf courses in Hawaii. If you have the opportunity to tee it up in the Aloha State, life is good. So when it comes to our ranking of the Best Golf Courses in Hawaii, it's just a matter of separating the best from the other good ones. That's what our latest list below does—taking thousands of evaluations from our 1,900 course-ranking panelists to determine our latest ranking, which we've been publishing since 1977.

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Manele, previously called The Challenge at Manele, unseated Kapalua’s Plantation course as the highest-ranked public course in Hawaii several years ago. Now the course, located on the southern coast of Lanai, has the votes to make it eligible for the 100 Greatest and Second 100 Greatest ranking as well, buoyed by an Aesthetics score that regularly ranks among the top 30 in the U.S. The Nicklaus design is worthy of high praise. It has three ocean-cove holes, including the par-3 12th and dogleg-right par-4 17th. You might argue Manele has been perpetually underranked, starting with its finish on Golf Digest’s ranking of Best New Resort Courses in 1994, well behind World Woods’ Pine Barrens course (now known as Cabot Barrens at Cabot Citrus Farms). It’s hard to argue it’s under ranked now.

3. (3) Kapalua: Plantation

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From Golf Digest Architecture Editor emeritus Ron Whitten:  

Most golf fans are familiar with Kapalua Golf Club’s Plantation Course, home of the PGA Tour's opening event each year. Located on the north shore of the Hawaiian island of Maui, the Plantation was built from open, windswept pineapple fields on the pronounced slope of a volcano and is irrigated by sprinklers pressured solely by gravity. As the first design collaboration by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, it unveiled their joint admiration for old-style courses. The blind drive on the fourth, the cut-the-corner drives on the fifth and sixth are all based on tee shots found at National Golf Links. So, too, are its punchbowl green and strings of diagonal bunkers. It's also a massive course, built on a huge scale, Coore says, to accommodate the wind and the slope and the fact that it gets mostly resort play. So it's a big course. But what sets it apart in my mind are the little things. When I played the course years ago with Coore, it took only one hole for me to appreciate one of its subtleties. We were on the tee of the par-3 second, an OK hole but nothing riveting, nothing like the canyon-carry par-3 eighth or the ocean-backdropped par-3 11th. The second sits on a rare flat portion of the property. The green sits at a diagonal, angling left to right, and there's a string of bunkers staggering up the right side of the green. The first bunker appears to be directly in front of the green but is actually 40 yards short of it. When pointed out to me, I called it Gingerbread. Bill disagreed.  

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4. (4) Kukio Golf Club

5. (5) Mauna Kea Beach Hotel Golf Course

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6. (6) The Club At Hokulia

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7. (7) Kohanaiki Golf & Ocean Club

8. (9) Makai Golf Club

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9. (8) The Club at Kukui'ula

10. (10) Hualalai Resort

11. (11) Poipu Bay Golf Course

12. (13) Wailea Golf Club: Gold

13. (NR) Ocean Course at Hokuala

14. (15) The King Kamehameha Golf Club

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15. (NR) Wailea Golf Club: Emerald

16. (NR) Mauna Lani Resort: North

17. (NR) Kapalua: Bay

18. (NR) Turtle Bay Resort: Palmer Course

19. (NR) Hapuna Golf Course

Adjacent to Mauna Kea Golf Course, the Arnold Palmer-designed Hapuna Golf Course opened in 1992 and features dramatic elevation changes. As many holes play on an exposed hillside overlooking the Pacific, strong winds are often present and make the course play quite difficult. There is a blend of downhill and uphill holes, with the downhill holes offering fantastic ocean views.

20. (NR) Mauna Lani Resort: South

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Round 2 of the Sony Open in Hawaii takes place Friday at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu, Hawaii. The first Full-Field Event of the season features PGA TOUR stars including Ludvig Åberg, Matt Fitzpatrick, Hideki Matsuyama and Sahith Theegala. Last week's winner Chris Kirk will look to sweep the PGA TOUR's Opening Drive and claim back-to-back victories.

Cam Davis leads the Sony Open heading into Friday, sitting at 8-under after posting a first-round 62. Taylor Montgomery sits two back after carding a 64. Play was suspended due to darkness on Thursday at 6:08 p.m. local time (11:08 p.m. ET) with 22 players still remaining on the course.

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FORT WORTH, Texas — Grayson Murray, a two-time PGA Tour winner who battled alcohol issues and depression, has died, according to PGA Tour officials. He was 30.

Murray played the first round and part of the second round in this week’s Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Country Club, but withdrew from the event after 16 holes on Friday, citing an illness.

No cause of death has been listed, but PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan issued a statement to staff and players stating that grief counselors would be on hand. The tournament will continue as scheduled.

Murray attended Wake Forest University, East Carolina University, and Arizona State University, and later won the 2017 Barbasol Championship and the 2024 Sony Open in Hawaii.

“We were devastated to learn — and are heartbroken to share — that PGA Tour player Grayson Murray passed away this morning,” Monahan said in his note. “I am at a loss for words. The PGA Tour is a family, and when you lose a member of your family, you are never the same. We mourn Grayson and pray for comfort for his loved ones. I reached out to Grayson’s parents to offer our deepest condolences, and during that conversation, they asked that we continue with tournament play. They were adamant that Grayson would want us to do so.

“As difficult as it will be, we want to respect their wishes. The PGA Tour has grief counselors available at both tournament sites, as well as virtually for those not in the field. I am en route to Ft. Worth and will share more information when we can.”

After capturing three straight IMG Junior World titles starting in 2006, he became the second youngest player to make the cut at a Korn Ferry Tour event when he did so at the age of 16. He also played in the 2013 U.S. Open at Merion as an amateur.

Murray showed great promise on the course, winning the 2017 Barbasol despite drinking during tournament week and admitting in January that he played three days hungover when he won.

“Best thing and worst thing that ever happened to me was winning my rookie year,” he said. “I think the alcohol brought a side out of me that wasn’t me. It was kind of the monster in me in a way.”

Photos: PGA Tour winner Grayson Murray through the years

But the early success proved to be short-lived. He struggled to make cuts and conceded he was jealous of the players he grew up competing against, who were having greater success. Along the way, he had a Twitter spat with a fellow player, suffered a scooter accident in 2022 in Bermuda , and threatened to quit on multiple occasions. Murray also dealt with anxiety and depression, and said there were days he didn’t want to get out of bed.

“I just thought I was a failure,” he said. “I thought I had a lot of talent that was just a waste of talent.”

It appeared his life turned around, however, as Murray had gotten sober in 2023.

“It was by choice,” he said after winning the Sony Open. “It was time.”

He regained exempt status on the PGA Tour after winning twice on the Korn Ferry Tour last year and set out to treat his return to the big leagues as a new beginning.

A native of Raleigh, North Carolina, Murray said he was treating the 2024 season as if it was his rookie year all over again.

“I was young and thought I was invincible. Wasn’t doing the correct stuff off the course to really give myself the best chance to succeed out here,” he said. “My scooter accident in Bermuda was really a low point in my life. You know, I’ve obviously been vocal about the alcohol use in the past. I’m over eight months sober now. I have a beautiful fiancée that I love so much and who is so supportive of me, and my parents are so supportive of me.”

Murray made waves via social media in 2021 when he revealed his struggles with Tour life that he said had led him to become an alcoholic. Murray claimed he was on probation with the PGA Tour after he got drunk in a Hawaii hotel bar despite causing “no scene whatsoever.” He also expressed disappointment that the Tour didn’t help him deal with his alcohol problem.

“We are saddened and heartbroken to learn about the sudden passing of Grayson Murray,” Kevin Canning, Murray’s agent, said in a statement. “Grayson has been a longtime member of the GSE family and hearing the news this morning shocked all of us. We will hold off on commenting until we learn further details but our heart aches for his family, his friends and all who loved him during this very difficult time.”

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Grayson Murray, 2-time PGA Tour winner, dies at 30

Two-time PGA Tour winner Grayson Murray died by suicide Saturday morning . He was 30 years old.

PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan confirmed Murray’s death in a statement Saturday. On Sunday, Murray’s family said in a statement that he had killed himself.

“The PGA Tour is a family, and when you lose a member of your family, you are never the same,” Monahan said in the statement. “We mourn Grayson and pray for comfort for his loved ones.”

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On Friday, Murray withdrew from the second round of the Charles Schwab Challenge in Fort Worth, Texas, citing an illness. He had finished all but the final two holes in the round. He had bogeyed the final three holes and was 5-over-par, which ended up being the cut line.

Monahan said he spoke with Murray’s parents, who requested the tournament to continue.

“They were adamant that Grayson would want us to do so,” Monahan said. “As difficult as it will be, we want to respect their wishes.”

Bubba Watson, a 12-time PGA Tour winner, paid tribute to Murray on X and recalled seeing Murray at this year’s Masters.

“Very sad to hear the news of Grayson Murray’s passing today. Life is so fragile,” Watson tweeted. “I was just hugging you at the Masters, telling you how proud of you I am. Thankful to have known you. My deepest condolences to his family and friends during this difficult time. He will be missed.”

Very sad to hear the news of Grayson Murray’s passing today. Life is so fragile… I was just hugging you at the Masters, telling you how proud of you I am. Thankful to have known you. My deepest condolences to his family and friends during this difficult time. He will be missed. — bubba watson (@bubbawatson) May 25, 2024

Murray had publicly battled alcoholism and mental health issues, but he returned to form and earned his PGA Tour card back this fall and won the Sony Open in Hawaii in January . He made the cut at both the Masters and the PGA Championship the last two months and finished T10 at the signature event Wells Fargo Championship just two weeks ago. He was ranked as the No. 58 player in the world by the Official World Golf Ranking.

Grayson Murray's fianceé, Christiana, shows the group how it's done. #themasters pic.twitter.com/13b9VTzAev — The Masters (@TheMasters) April 10, 2024

Peter Malnati spoke on the CBS broadcast about Murray, who he played with the first two days of the Charles Schwab Challenge.

“We all want to beat each other. And then something like this happens and you realize we’re all just humans,” Malnati said, fighting back tears. “It’s a really hard day.

“You look at Grayson and you see him. Someone who has visibly outwardly struggled in the past. And he’s been open about it. You see him kind of get his life back to a place where he’s feeling good about things. It’s just so sad.”

A North Carolina native who attended Wake Forest, East Carolina and Arizona State during his collegiate career, Murray became the second youngest player to make the cut at a Korn Ferry Tour event at 16, and he played as an amateur in the U.S. Open at 19. He quickly earned a PGA Tour card as a professional in 2017 and won the Barbasol Championship that year for his first win on tour.

Over time, Murray became known for his angry outbursts on the course and the PGA Tour putting him on probation three years ago for an incident at a hotel bar, also in Hawaii. He tweeted after the incident, “Why was I drunk? Because I’m a f—ing alcoholic that hates everything to do with the PGA Tour life and that’s my scapegoat.” He then accused the tour of not giving him proper help, which the tour denied.

After struggles on and off the course, Murray said he received treatment for addiction and won twice on the Korn Ferry Tour in 2023.

“There are days where I didn’t want to get out of bed,” Murray said after his win in January. “I just thought I was a failure. I always looked at myself as a failure. I thought I had a lot of talent that was just a waste of talent. It was a bad place, but like I said, you have to have courage. You have to have the willingness to keep going. Lo and behold, that’s what I did, and I’m here, and I’m so blessed and I’m thankful.”

(Photo: Michael Reaves / Getty Images)

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