MONY Tournament of Champions
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| Location | Kapalua, Hawaii |
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| Established | 1953, 64 years ago |
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Kapalua Resort Plantation Course (1999–present) |
| Par | 73 |
| Length | 7,452 yards (6,814 m) |
| Organized by | PGA Tour |
| Tour(s) | PGA Tour |
| Format | Stroke play |
| Prize fund | $6.1 million |
| Month played | January |
| Aggregate | 261 Ernie Els (2003) |
| To par | −31* Ernie Els (2003) * PGA Tour record |
 Justin Thomas
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The Tournament of Champions is the calendar-year opening tournament of golf's PGA Tour season, played in Hawaii on the island of Maui. Founded in 1953, the field is restricted to golfers who won a tournament on the tour during the previous year. From 1986 through 2013, it was the opening event of each tour season; the PGA Tour switched to its wrap-around October–September season in the fall of 2013.
The Tournament of Champions is held during the first week of January and, since 1999, has been played over the Plantation Course at the Kapalua Resort near Lahaina on the island of Maui in Hawaii. Unlike most PGA Tour events, it is a par 73 course.
Previous venues have been the Desert Inn Country Club in Las Vegas, Nevada, from the event's inception until 1966, and the Stardust Country Club, also in Las Vegas, in 1967 and 1968. For the following thirty years, it was played at La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California; it moved from May in 1985 to January in 1986, and relocated to Maui in 1999.
The tournament has had several title sponsors, the first being Mutual of New York (MONY) between 1975 and 1990. After three years of sponsorship by Infiniti, German car maker Mercedes-Benz began a sixteen-year association with the event and the Tournament of Champions name was dropped. In 2010 the tournament entered a new ten-year agreement with Korean broadcasting company Seoul Broadcasting System, with the tournament being renamed as the SBS Championship.Hyundai took over title sponsorship in 2011 with SBS remaining a sponsor. In 2017, with Hyundai taking over title sponsorship of the PGA Tour event at Riviera Country Club, SBS is back as the title sponsor.
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