It's Round 1 of the 2026 Sony Open in Hawaii golf tournament on the PGA Tour. Follow for updates and highlights, plus tee times and how to watch.

SportsLine's model simulated the Sony Open in Hawaii 10,000 times and revealed its PGA Tour golf picks for the season-opening event

The first cut of the 2026 PGA TOUR season has been made, and the remaining players head to the weekend at the Sony Open in Hawaii.

After his first three holes Saturday, no one expected Davis Riley to be atop the leaderboard heading into today’s final round of the Sony Open in Hawaii.

Calm and soft conditions early in the first round of the 2026 PGA Tour season saw the same man who reigned supreme at Waialae Country Club the year prior shoot out to the opening lead once again. Nick Taylor was flawless in the initial refrain of his Sony Open title defense as the Canadian carded a bogey-free 62 to command a share of the lead with Kevin Roy.

There isn’t a better place to be in mid-January than Hawaii. While objectively true pretty much anytime and especially during the winter, you’d find unanimous agreement among the 120 in the field at the Sony Open in Hawaii that launches the 2026 PGA TOUR season.

Golf games have a funny way of humbling players long before the leaderboard ever does. One swing feels perfect, the next somehow defies physics, common sense, and muscle memory all at once. That’s been part of the charm — and occasionally the frustration — surrounding PGA Tour 2K25 since launch.