The second round of the Aloha Swing is set with the 2021 Sony Open Teeing off. The event is the first full-field tournament of the 2021 calendar year and has a strong field ready to tee off starting with Webb Simpson at +1200.
The field is also packed with players coming off strong runs including Harris English at +1600 and veteran strikers like Sergio Garcia +4000. Meaning – plenty of value to be had down the odds list on a course that every player involved should be able to handle.
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Waialae Country Club in Honolulu is not known for being a hard place to play – for pros! The course is scenic, breathtaking, and built for in and out camera shots during tournament TV breaks.
The course, while being very playable, has offered up several different outcomes over the last six events. Three of them ended in playoffs while the other three ended with a win of 4 strokes or more. More on the course below. Here are the top-five favorites according to Intertops.
Webb Simpson +1200
Collin Morikawa +1400
Harris English +1600
Patrick Reed +1600
Daniel Berger +1800
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2021 Sony Open Preview
Where: Honolulu, Hawaii
Course: Waialae Country Club
Format: Stroke Play
Par: 70
Length: 7,044
When: January 14 –17, 2021
Purse: $6.6 Million.
TV Coverage: NBC, Golf Channel, Peacock
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The Waialae Country Club was designed by Seth Raynor and opened in 1927 and offers players a scenic view from almost anywhere on the course! Several of the holes are based on famed holes from around the world.
The No. 10 hole has features pulled from No. 17 at St. Andrews in Scotland while No. 8 is patterned after the Redan hole at the North Berwick Golf Club; also in Scotland.
The course takes advantage of some of the flatter terrain near the shore as well as some of the rolling terrain on the more inland holes. Overall, the links are relatively flat will only minor elevation changes.
Hazards range from ponds, creeks, coastline, and multiple bunkers. The fairways are guarded lightly by trees and a few native growth areas. The perfectly manicured greens – running from medium to large by PGA standards – are Bermuda with the fairways being Winter ryegrass Waialae can lure players into a false sense of security because of its wide-open look and downhome country club feel. But the course has some rather large bunkers that can swallow up wayward shots off the tee or during the approach.
2021 PGA Sony Open Predictions
Harris English +1600
Harris English has been playing great golf as of late and won the Tournament of Champions last week. Plus, he’s finished with three top-tens at Waialae. English Also finished 4th at the U.S. Open and T5 at the Mayakoba Golf Classic two weeks ago. The former Georgia Bulldog is No. 2 in FedEx points and jumped to No. 29th on the Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR) list.
Webb Simpson +1200
Webb Simpson comes in at +1200 – he finished third here in 2020. The season prior, he finished T4 at Waialae. Like English, his playing style should lend itself to Waialae. Simpson has been a bit inconsistent over the last year but seems to be dialing things back in. In his last six tournaments, he has finished 20th or better five times going T8, T13, T17, T10, and a T37 at the RSM Classic before carding a T17 last week at the Tournament of Champions.
Sungjae Im +2000
Sungjae Im at +2000 is a bit surprising as I would have thought he would have closer to Simpson and English. Im has been near the top of the leader board many times during the last year and finished off last week with a T5 run. He led the field in strokes gained as well. He has played some great rounds at Waialae but needs to put four good rounds in a row to finally win at the course.
Others I Like: I’ll probably hate myself for not putting Collin Morikawa (+1400) higher on my list this week. He won twice this year including a Major. Takumi Kanaya (+15000) turned pro last season and went on to win the Japan Dunlop Phoenix. Kanaya is a young golfer that should be able to attack a course like Waialae.
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2021 Sony Open Odds
Webb Simpson +1200
Collin Morikawa +1400
Harris English +1600
Patrick Reed +1600
Daniel Berger +1800
Hideki Matsuyama +2000
Sungjae Im +2000
Joaquin Niemann +2200
Abraham Ancer +2800
Cameron Smith +2800
Kevin Kisner +2800
Adam Scott +3300
Ryan Palmer +3300
Russell Henley +3300
Billy Horschel +3300
Matt Kuchar +4000
Zach Johnson +4000
Lanto Griffin +4000
Sergio Garcia +4000
Brendon Todd +5000
Brian Harman +5000
Charles Howell III +5000
Emiliano Grillo +5000
Sebastian Munoz +5000
Jason Kokrak +5000
Erik Van Rooyen +6600
Marc Leishman +6600
Kevin Na +6600
Patton Kizzire +8000
Carlos Ortiz +8000
Talor Gooch +8000
Chez Reavie +8000
Si-Woo Kim +8000
Matthew Nesmith +8000
Keegan Bradley +8000
Russell Knox +8000
Mackenzie Hughes +10000
Brandt Snedeker +10000
JT Poston +10000
Scott Piercy +10000
Rory Sabbatini +10000
Branden Grace +10000
Tom Hoge +10000
Cameron Davis +12500
Jim Furyk +12500
James Hahn +12500
Kyle Stanley +12500
Sepp Straka +12500
Stewart Cink +12500
Matt Jones +12500
C T Pan +15000
Austin Cook +15000
Doug Ghim +15000
Henrik Norlander +15000
Takumi Kanaya +15000
Chris Kirk +15000
Brendan Steele +15000
Charley Hoffman +15000
Michael Thompson +15000
Jhonattan Vegas +15000
Peter Malnati +15000
Richy Werenski +17500
Brian Gay +20000
Danny Lee +20000
Bo Hoag +20000
Brian Stuard +20000
Andrew Landry +20000
Brice Garnett +20000
Harry Higgs +20000
Hudson Swafford +20000
Nate Lashley +20000
Pat Perez +20000
Vaughn Taylor +20000
Adam Schenk +20000
Mark Hubbard +20000
Nick Taylor +20000
Andrew Putnam +25000
Anirban Lahiri +25000
Kramer Hickok +25000
Will Gordon +25000
Robert Streb +25000
Keith Mitchell +25000
Luke List +25000
Ryo Ishikawa +25000
Tyler McCumber +25000
Roger Sloan +25000
Xinjun Zhang +25000
Troy Merritt +25000
Wesley Bryan +30000
JJ Spaun +30000
Sung Kang +30000
Hank Lebioda +30000
Jimmy Walker +30000
Robby Shelton +30000
Ryan Armour +30000
Aaron Baddeley +30000
Jim Herman +30000
Rob Oppenheim +30000
Bronson Burgoon +35000
Jamie Lovemark +35000
Mark Anderson +35000
Chris Baker +35000
Chase Seiffert +40000
David Hearn +40000
Grayson Murray +40000
Joseph Bramlett +40000
Michael Gligic +40000
Nick Watney +40000
Ryosuke Kinoshita +40000
Satoshi Kodaira +40000
Scott Brown +40000
Ted Potter +40000
Kyoung-Hoon Lee +40000
Sam Ryder +40000
D J Trahan +50000
Parker McLachlin +50000
Davis Love III +50000
Fabian Gomez +50000
Jerry Kelly +50000
Jinichiro Kozuma +50000
Rhein Gibson +50000
Tim Wilkinson +50000
Ben Taylor +50000
Brandon Hagy +50000
Kevin Tway +50000
Y E Yang +50000
William McGirt +50000
K J Choi +75000
Nelson Ledesma +75000
Vijay Singh +75000
Hunter Mahan +75000
Matt Every +75000
Rafael Campos +75000
Mike Weir +100000
Bo Van Pelt +100000
Michael Kim +100000
Shane Bertsch +100000
Martin Trainer +150000
Evan Kawai +150000
Evan Dugas +200000