Activities Sports & Athletics Sony Open in Hawaii Golf Tournament The PGA Tour event's past champions, future dates and tourney trivia Share PINTEREST Email Print 2016 Sony Open winner Fabian Gomez celebrates with a couple beauty queens and the tournament trophy. Sam Greenwood/Getty Images Sports & Athletics Golf Golf Tournaments Basics History Gear Golf Courses Famous Golfers Baseball Basketball Bicycling Billiards Bodybuilding Bowling Boxing Car Racing Cheerleading Cricket Extreme Sports Football Gymnastics Ice Hockey Martial Arts Professional Wrestling Skateboarding Skating Paintball Soccer Swimming & Diving Table Tennis Tennis Track & Field Volleyball Other Activities Learn More By Brent Kelley Brent Kelley is an award-winning sports journalist and golf expert with over 30 years in print and online journalism. our editorial process Brent Kelley Updated January 13, 2020 This tournament's full name is Sony Open in Hawaii. For much of its history - which dates to 1965 - the tournament was known as the Hawaiian Open. Sony became the title sponsor in 1999. The Sony Open is the second tournament of each new calendar year o the PGA Tour's schedule, taking place in early to mid-January and following the Tournament of Champions. 2020 TournamentA few weeks after playing for Team International in the Presidents Cup, Cameron Smith earned his first PGA Tour win here. Smith birdied the final hole in regulation to tie Brendan Steele at 11-under 269. Then, on the first playoff hole, Smith won with a par to Steele's bogey. 2019 Tournament Matt Kuchar scored a final-round 66 to win by four strokes. Kuchar finished at 22-under-par 258, four better than runner-up Andrew Putnam. It was Kuchar's ninth career win on the PGA Tour. 2018 TournamentPatton Kizzire survived a six-hole playoff to claim the trophy. Kizzire and James Hahn finished regulation play tied at 17-under 263, and went into a sudden-death playoff. The end was anything but sudden, though: The two matched pars on the first three extra holes, then matched birdies and another par on the following two. Finally, on the sixth extra hole, Kizzire won it when Hahn made bogey. It was the second win of the 2017-18 PGA Tour season for Kizzire. Official Web site PGA Tour tournament site Tournament Records at the Sony Open Overall record: 253 - Justin Thomnas, 2017Tournament course record: 59 - Justin Thomas, 2017Wins: 2, shared by give golfers - Hubert Green, Corey Pavin, Ernie Els, Lanny Wadkins, Jimmy Walker The Sony Open Course The Sony Open has been played on the same golf course every year of its existence: Waialae Country Club, a private club in Honolulu: Waialae Country Club profileWaialae Country Club pictures Sony Open Tournament Trivia and Notes Gay Brewer won this tournament in its first year, 1965, and was runner-up the following year.Four golfers have won the Sony Open in back-to-back years: Hubert Green (1978-79), Corey Pavin (1986-87), Ernie Els (2003-04) and Jimmy Walker (2014-15). One each of Green's and Pavin's consecutive wins were via playoff, while both of Els' back-to-backers were via playoffs.There has not yet been a 3-time winner of the Sony Open. Els came close in 2005, losing to Vijay Singh by one stroke. Lanny Wadkins is the only other 2-time champion.The only PGA Tour victory by Japanese star (and Hall of Famer) Isao Aoki came in this event at the 1983 Hawaiian Open. It was the first victory by a native of Japan on the PGA Tour, and Aoki clinched the win when he holed out from the fairway on the final hole.The Sony Open gave 14-year-old Michelle Wie a exemption into the field in 2004, Wie's first appearance in a PGA Tour tournament. She fell one stroke short of making the cut that year, shooting 72-68 to finish at even-par. That 68 remains the lowest score ever posted by a female in a PGA Tour tournament. Wie also played the Sony Open in 2005-07, but without coming close to matching her 2004 scores.Hawaii native son Tadd Fujikawa made a splash at the 2007 tournament just days after turning 16 years old. Fujikawa became the youngest golfer in 50 years to make a cut in a PGA Tour event, rose near the top of the leaderboard in the third round, and wound up finished tied for 20th. Winners of the PGA Tour's Sony Open (Changes in the tournament's name are noted; p-playoff; w-weather shortened) Sony Open in Hawaii2020 - Cameron Smith, 2692019 - Matt Kuchar, 2582018 - Patton Kizzire, 2632017 - Justin Thomas, 2532016 - Fabian Gomez-p, 2602015 - Jimmy Walker, 2572014 - Jimmy Walker, 2632013 - Russell Henley, 2562012 - Johnson Wagner, 2672011 - Mark Wilson, 2642010 - Ryan Palmer, 2652009 - Zach Johnson, 2652008 - K.J. Choi, 2662007 - Paul Goydos, 2662006 - David Toms, 2612005 - Vijay Singh, 2692004 - Ernie Els-p, 2622003 - Ernie Els-p, 2642002 - Jerry Kelly, 2662001 - Brad Faxon, 2602000 - Paul Azinger, 2611999 - Jeff Sluman, 271 United Airlines Hawaiian Open1998 - John Huston, 2601997 - Paul Stankowski-p, 2711996 - Jim Furyk-p, 2771995 - John Morse, 2691994 - Brett Ogle, 2691993 - Howard Twitty, 2691992 - John Cook, 265 United Hawaiian Open1991 - Lanny Wadkins, 270 Hawaiian Open1990 - David Ishii, 2791989 - Gene Sauers-w, 1971988 - Lanny Wadkins, 2711987 - Corey Pavin-p, 2701986 - Corey Pavin, 2721985 - Mark O'Meara, 2671984 - Jack Renner-p, 2711983 - Isao Aoki, 2681982 - Wayne Levi, 2771981 - Hale Irwin, 2651980 - Andy Bean, 2661979 - Hubert Green, 2671978 - Hubert Green-p, 2741977 - Bruce Lietzke, 2731976 - Ben Crenshaw, 2701975 - Gary Groh, 2741974 - Jack Nicklaus, 2711973 - John Schlee, 2731972 - Grier Jones-p, 2741971 - Tom Shaw, 2731970 - Not played1969 - Bruce Crampton, 2741968 - Lee Trevino, 2721967 - Dudley Wysong-p, 2841966 - Ted Makalena, 2711965 - Gay Brewer-p, 281