DJ Leads Tour Into Full-Field Sony Open

DJ Leads Tour Into Full-Field Sony Open

Hyundai Tournament of Champions is over - finally! - the PGA Tour heads into its first full-field tournament on the 2013 schedule, the Sony Open in Hawaii . Let's hope the winds calm enough to avoid the delays that happened at the TOC. There, what was supposed to be a 72-hole tournament concluding on Monday instead was blown into a 54-hole event that didn't officially start until Monday and concluded on Tuesday. But, finally, Dustin Johnson emerged as the winner at Kapalua. It's the third of Johnson's seven career PGA Tour wins that happened in a tournament shortened to 54 holes. In fact, DJ has won the last three 54-hole events on the PGA Tour. And Johnson now has wins in six straight PGA Tour seasons, the second longest active streak on tour (Phil Mickelson has wins in nine straight seasons). And we say that makes Dustin the headliner and the favorite at the Sony Open th...

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