Several players are riding the top of the favorites list this week at the 20223 Sony Open. This is the second event on the PGA TOUR Hawaii swing, which kicked off with the Sentry Tournament of Champions. We saw Colin Morikawa have a meltdown on Sunday while Jon Rahm played near-perfect golf. Rahm walked away with the win and over $2 million.

Could this week at the Sony Open finish similarly? Yes! The numbers are tight at the top with only a little light coming between the two favorites to win the Sony Open outright. Tom Kim comes in at +500 with Sungjae Im entering Thursday’s opening round at +560.

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It’s also an event where there are plenty of players, aka value picks, down the odds list that can pull off a win with a strong showing.

Here are the favorites to win the 2023 Sony Open outright, including last season’s Sony Open winner Hideki Matsuyama.

Tom Kim +500

Sungjae Im +560

Jordan Spieth +600

Hideki Matsuyama +700

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2023 Sony Open Preview

Where: Honolulu, Hawaii

Course: Waialae Country Club

Par: 70

Length: 7,044

When: January 12-15, 2023

Purse: $7.9 million

TV Coverage: Golf Channel/Peacock

The Waialae Country Club is relatively flat compared to last week at the Plantation course, which played on the side of one of the Island’s mountains. The course is a visual stunner with tight fairways, but generous landing areas. The rough, medium cut, runs off into native flora and bunkers. The greens are designed for being able to move the pin around to take advantage of false fronts and plateaus.

Wind could be a factor, if so, look for players to go low as if they were in St Andrews over in Scotland. Wedge play and a hot putter always come in handy at Waialae.

The course has several holes based on famous golf links from around the world such as No. 8 which is patterned after the Redan hole on the North Berwick Golf Club in Scotland. The No. 10 also has a Scottish theme, it includes design features of the “Road Hole” at St. Andrews. And No. 13 is patterned after the Biarritz Course in France.

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2023 Sony Open Predictions

Jordan Spieth +600

Jordan Spieth sits at the 15th spot on the OWGR list after giving up the 14th spot to Tom Kim. Spieth finished by himself at 15 at the Hero World Challenge and followed that up with a T13 at the Tournament of Champions. He has not missed a cut since the FedEx St Jude Championship in August of 2022. Speith partnered with Justin Thomas to beat Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy in the latest version of The Match during the Holiday and Christmas break.

Russell Henley +800

Russell Henley took Hideki Matsuyama to the ropes at this event last season before losing to Matsuyama in a playoff. Henley played better than the T30 he carded last week at the Tournament of Champions. However, his style of play fits the flatter links of Waialae Country Club perfectly. Henley started the new season by winning at Mayakoba and now sits in the 10th spot in FedEx points.

Christiaan Bezuidenhout +1200

Christiaan Bezuidenhout would be the player I would look toward if I were seeking value down the odds list. Things are tight this week so that’s a tall ask! Bezuidenhout finished 2022 with some great play as he carded two top-five showings in international play – both on his home turf of South Africa. He seemed to take a liking to Waialae last season when he finished T17 during his debut appearance.

Others: So why am I not leaning on Tom Kim (+500)? One piece of sports trivia is keeping me from doing so. Russell Henley is the first player to win at this event during their tournament debut since 1965. I know, that’s a stretch, but it shows that this course can be tough for newcomers. Harris English (+1200) is a threat every time he tees it up and especially if he’s finally healthy after surgery. This would be a perfect course for English to get back to winning form.

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2023 Sony Open Betting Lines

Tom Kim +500

Sungjae Im +560

Jordan Spieth +600

Hideki Matsuyama +700

Russell Henley +800

Corey Conners +800

Brian Harman +800

Tom Hoge +800

Billy Horschel +900

Taylor Montgomery +900

Keegan Bradley +900

Maverick McNealy +900

Adam Scott +900

Cameron Davis +1000

Keith Mitchell +1000

Kyoung-Hoon Lee +1000

JJ Spaun +1000

Si-Woo Kim +1100

Alex Smalley +1100

Gary Woodland +1100

Kurt Kitayama +1200

Christiaan Bezuidenhout +1200

Andrew Putnam +1200

Emiliano Grillo +1200

Matt Kuchar +1200

Harris English +1200

Denny McCarthy +1320

Webb Simpson +1320

JT Poston +1320

Mackenzie Hughes +1320

Will Gordon +1400

Hayden Buckley +1400

Brendan Steele +1400

Nick Hardy +1400

Adam Svensson +1400

Aaron Rai +1600

Chris Kirk +1600

Russell Knox +1600

Brendon Todd +1600

Stephan Jaeger +1600

S.H. Kim +1600

Robby Shelton +1600

Patton Kizzire +1800

Greyson Sigg +1800

Ben Griffin +1800

Justin Suh +1800

Ryan Palmer +1800

Troy Merritt +1800

James Hahn +1800

David Lipsky +1800

Joseph Bramlett +1800

Davis Thompson +2000

Lucas Glover +2000

Mark Hubbard +2000

Kevin Streelman +2000

Adam Long +2000

Ryan Armour +2000

Brandon Wu +2000

Sam Ryder +2000

Adam Schenk +2000

Ben Taylor +2000

Stewart Cink +2000

Keita Nakajima +2000

M-J Daffue +2000

Kevin Yu +2000

Carl Yuan +2000

Chez Reavie +2000

Scott Piercy +2500

Nick Taylor +2500

Harry Higgs +2500

David Lingmerth +2500

Cole Hammer +2500

Matthias Schmid +2500

John Huh +2500

Erik Barnes +2500

Yuto Katsuragawa +2500

Kazuki Higa +2500

Matthias Schwab +2500

Taiga Semikawa +2500

Brian Stuard +2500

Chesson Hadley +2500

Byeong-Hun An +2500

Robert Streb +2500

Ben Martin +2500

Austin Eckroat +2500

Rory Sabbatini +2500

Danny Lee +2500

Michael Kim +2500

Doc Redman +2500

Austin Cook +3000

Michael Thompson +3000

Tyson Alexander +3000

Kramer Hickok +3000

Zach Johnson +3000

Ryan Moore +3000

Ze-Cheng Dou +3000

Harrison Endycott +3000

Eric Cole +3000

Kaito Onishi +3000

Brice Garnett +3000

Aaron Baddeley +3000

Zac Blair +3000

Tyler Duncan +3000

Nate Lashley +3000

Peter Malnati +3000

Vincent Norrman +3000

Austin Smotherman +3000

Paul Haley +3000

Andrew Novak +3000

Sam Stevens +3000

Harry Hall +3000

Kevin Roy +3000

Kevin Tway +3000

Michael Gligic +3000

Kelly Kraft +3000

Chad Ramey +3000

Augusto Nunez +3000

Jerry Kelly +3500

Brent Grant +3500

Kyle Stanley +4000

Scott Harrington +4000

Trevor Cone +4000

Kyle Westmoreland +4000

Max McGreevy +4000

Jim Herman +4000

K J Choi +4000

Nicolas Echavarria +4000

Jimmy Walker +4000

Ryan Brehm +4000

Brandon Matthews +4000

Richy Werenski +5000

Tano Goya +5000

Kohei Okada +5000

Anders Albertson +5000

Carson Young +5000

Trevor Werbylo +5000

Michael Castillo +7000

Parker McLachlin +7000

Blaze Akana +7000

Jesse Mueller +8000