2011, a New Start, a New Season!

First upon the schedule of events is the PGA Tour's "Hyundai Tournament of Champions" from Jan. 6-9th in beautiful Maui, Hawaii at the Kapalua Resort. This tournament field is formed from Champions of the 2010 PGA Tour and will host players this week at The Plantation Course at Kapalua Resort. This will be the inaugural tournament for New Title Sponsor Hyundai.

From the beautiful shores to the gorgeous sunsets, Maui is one of the most beautiful places to host a PGA event. Our players arrived early to take advantage of the island and it's beauty. Bubba Watson tweeted on Monday, that he was playing a round with his wife Angie and that he was in shorts and riding a cart; both things you will not normally see Bubba Watson doing. Today, he was playing another practice round and also, will doing an EASPORTS promo for the 2012 Tiger Woods game. The Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12 : The Masters will hit stores in May, 2011 and will feature The Masters at Augusta National. Yay! You can all pick up the current Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 at EASPORTS right now!

For those that don't follow Bubba on Twitter, you're missing out. He often posts videos of golf shots to just plain FUN tweets! You can follow him at @BubbaWatson . Ian Poulter another active Twitterer, is responsible for getting me hooked on "Cut the Rope". This is a game you can download from the App store for iphone or ipad. Very addicting! You can follow Ian via Twitter at @ianjamespoulter .

Those competing are: Geoff Olgilvy, Ryan Palmer, Bill Haas, Ben Crane, Steve Stricker, Dustin Johnson, Ian Poulter, Cameron Beckman, Hunter Mahan, Camillo Villegas, Ernie Els, Jim Furyk, Anthony Kim, Phil Mickelson, Jason Bohn, Rory McIlroy, Tim Clark, Adam Scott, Jason Day, Zach Johnson, Justin Rose, Lee Westwood, Graeme McDowell, Bubba Watson, Louis Oosthuizen, Matt Bettencourt, Carl Pettersson, Stuart Appleby, Bill Lunde, Martin Kaymer, Arjun Atwal, Matt Kuchar, Charley Hoffman, Heath Slocum, Rocco Mediate, Jonathan Byrd, Fransesco Molinari and Robert Garrigus.

The awe striking Plantation Course is a par 73, 7,411 yard course. The current course record is 62 and held by K.J. Choi, who set this in 2003 at the Mercedes Benz Championship.


The gates will open each of the four tournament round days at 8:30 a.m. There will be Fan-Zone Fed-Ex Cup activities throughout the tournament. Practice rounds started Sunday and will be played through today. The Pro-Am event is on Wednesday. Tee times are not yet posted. The TV schedule will be via The Golf Channel and first round coverage will be at 5:30 PM - 10:00 PM on Thursday, Jan. 6th. Rounds 2 & 3 will be at the same respective times. The final round however, on Sat. Jan. 8th will be telecast from 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM.

Now, Go Hit Some Balls................................