2024 Sony Open predictions, expert picks, odds, field rankings, golf best bets at Waialae Country Club

The PGA Tour remains in Hawaii for the first full-field event of the season

The first full-field event of the PGA Tour season gets underway this week at the 2024 Sony Open in Hawaii. Staying in the Aloha State, the PGA Tour makes the short trip from Maui to Honolulu and kicks off a new campaign as players vie for FedEx Cup positioning and access to signature events at Waialae Country Club.

For the first time ever, the PGA Tour has introduced the Swing 5, a new qualifying mechanism where the top five players in terms of FedEx Cup points in the Sony Open, The American Express and the Farmers Insurance Open will gain entry into the next signature event, the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. The WM Phoenix Open will then be played, and the combination of FedEx Cup points from these four events will send the top five players to the Genesis Invitational.  

The fields for these two signature events are expected to reach up to 80 players, and with only 61 qualified as of this week, plenty of spots remain. Already in the field for the signature events are players such as last week's winner Chris Kirk, Ludvig Åberg, Tyrrell Hatton, Matt Fitzpatrick, Russell Henley, Sahith Theegala, Eric Cole and Brian Harman, all of whom are playing after teeing it up in The Sentry.