The first PGA Tour stop of 2025 will also be the first signature event of the year with most of the best golfers in the world traveling to Kapalua’s Plantation Course in Maui, Hawaii. Not the worst way to start your January.

The impressive field includes winners from all PGA Tour events from last year, along with players who finished in the top 50 of the 2024 FedEx Cup points list—from No. 1 Scottie Scheffler to No. 50 Eric Cole. Mind you, Scheffler won’t be playing in The Aloha State due to a hand injury. But Xander Schauffele will be teeing off this week after a monumental 2024 in which he won two majors, had 15 top-10 finishes in 22 events and even recorded four top-fives in a row to finish out his FedEx Cup season. Other tour winners include Viktor Hovland (despite a freak Christmas injury), Collin Morikawa, Ludvig Aberg, Hideki Matsuyama, Wyndham Clark, Patrick Cantlay, Keegan Bradley, Sahith Theegala and Robert MacIntyre. First-time PGA Tour victors heading to Kapalua include reigning PGA Tour Rookie of the Year Nick Dunlap, Austin Eckroat and Chris Gotterup.

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Chris Kirk is the defending champ after shooting a Sunday 65, barely holding off Sahith Theegala’s rip-roaring 10-under 63. The final round at Kapalua last year produced the lowest scoring average since 1983, according to the PGA Tour, so be on the lookout for low scores and some stellar golf.

This week’s winner will receive a $3.6 million cut of the $20 million purse and 700 FedEx Cup points.

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TV Schedule

Golf Channel will carry live coverage Thursday and Friday from 6-10 p.m. EST. On Saturday and Sunday, NBC/Peacock will begin live coverage from 4-6 p.m. with Golf Channel finishing each day up from 6-8 p.m.

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Streaming Schedule

PGA Tour Live streaming coverage will occur on ESPN+ Thursday to Sunday from 12:30-10 p.m. EST.

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Most golf fans are familiar with Kapalua Golf Club’s Plantation Course, home of the PGA Tour’s opening event each year. Located on the north shore of the Hawaiian island of Maui, the Plantation was built from open, windswept pineapple fields on the pronounced slope of a volcano and is irrigated by sprinklers pressured solely by gravity. As the first design collaboration by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, it unveiled their joint admiration for old-style courses. The blind drive on the fourth, the cut-the-corner drives on the fifth and sixth are all based on tee shots found at National Golf Links. So, too, are its punchbowl green and strings of diagonal bunkers. It’s also a massive course, built on a huge scale, Coore says, to accommodate the wind and the slope and the fact that it gets mostly resort play.So it’s a big course. But what sets it apart in my mind are the little things. When I played the course years ago with Coore, it took only one hole for me to appreciate one of its subtleties. We were on the tee of the par-3 second, an OK hole but nothing riveting, nothing like the canyon-carry par-3 eighth or the ocean-backdropped par-3 11th. The second sits on a rare flat portion of the property. The green sits at a diagonal, angling left to right, and there’s a string of bunkers staggering up the right side of the green. The first bunker appears to be directly in front of the green but is actually 40 yards short of it. When pointed out to me, I called it Gingerbread. Bill disagreed.”The wind quarters off your left shoulder from behind you,” he pointed out. “The green goes ever so slightly away from you from front to back and left to right. It is a very obvious situation, given the wind condition and the angle of this green; you know you should hit a shot left-to-right to fit the shot with the green. “But if the flag is at the front, there’s no way to fly that ball all the way to the hole and stop it close. You may stop it somewhere on the green, but nowhere within a reasonable putt. So you have to aim short of the green. They maintain the approaches so beautifully over here—firm approaches mowed at probably a quarter of an inch; you can literally putt from out there if you chose to do so. “But that brings that first bunker in play,” Coore continued. “When the flag is up front, you are absolutely required to land your ball just over that first bunker in order to get it to bounce and run to that front pin position.”Kapalua’s second is a simple-looking hole with a great deal of thought behind it. I suppose a lot of present-day architects would not have placed that forwardmost bunker on the hole, in the interests of playability for high-handicap resort golfers. But most of the old-time architects probably would have used such carry bunkers, especially in the days before irrigation, when greens were hard as a rock and every approach shot had to be bounced aboard.Another reason why studying the history of architecture might just help your score. —Ron Whitten

View Course Tee Times (all times EST) FIRST ROUND/THURSDAY

12:45 p.m. — Chris Gotterup, Tom Hoge, Adam Hadwin

12:57 p.m. — Jhonattan Vegas, Harry Hall, Nick Taylor

1:09 p.m. — Denny McCarthy, Cameron Young, Eric Cole

1:21 p.m. — Cam Davis, Brice Garnett, Thomas Detry

1:33 p.m. — Aaron Rai, Taylor Pendrith, Christiaan Bezuidenhout

1:45 p.m. — Austin Eckroat, Matt McCarty, Jake Knapp

1:57 p.m. — Robert MacIntyre, Si Woo Kim, Will Zalatoris

2:09 p.m. — Nick Dunlap, Akshay Bhatia, Matt Fitzpatrick

2:21 p.m. — Collin Morikawa, Sam Burns, Patrick Cantlay

2:33 p.m. — Xander Schauffele, Wyndham Clark, Ludvig Åberg

2:51 p.m. — Rafael Campos, Viktor Hovland, Byeong Hun An

3:03 p.m. — Nico Echavarria, Peter Malnati, Corey Conners

3:15 p.m. — Davis Riley, Brian Harman, Max Greyserman

3:27 p.m. — Kevin Yu, Matthieu Pavon, Alex Noren

3:39 p.m. — Patton Kizzire, Stephan Jaeger, Sepp Straka

3:51 p.m. — Maverick McNealy, J.T. Poston, Davis Thompson

4:03 p.m. — Billy Horschel, Russell Henley, Sungjae Im

4:15 p.m. — Keegan Bradley, Chris Kirk, Jason Day

4:27 p.m. — Sahith Theegala, Tony Finau, Max Homa

4:39 p.m. — Hideki Matsuyama, Justin Thomas, Adam Scott

SECOND ROUND/FRIDAY

12:45 p.m. — Rafael Campos, Viktor Hovland, Byeong Hun An

12:57 p.m. — Nico Echavarria, Peter Malnati, Corey Conners

1:09 p.m. — Davis Riley, Brian Harman, Max Greyserman

1:21 p.m. — Kevin Yu, Matthieu Pavon, Alex Noren

1:33 p.m. — Patton Kizzire, Stephan Jaeger, Sepp Straka

1:45 p.m. — Maverick McNealy, J.T. Poston, Davis Thompson

1:57 p.m. — Billy Horschel, Russell Henley, Sungjae Im

2:09 p.m. — Keegan Bradley, Chris Kirk, Jason Day

2:21 p.m. — Sahith Theegala, Tony Finau, Max Homa

2:33 p.m. — Hideki Matsuyama, Justin Thomas, Adam Scott

2:51 p.m. — Chris Gotterup, Tom Hoge, Adam Hadwin

3:03 p.m. — Jhonattan Vegas, Harry Hall, Nick Taylor

3:15 p.m. — Denny McCarthy, Cameron Young, Eric Cole

3:27 p.m. — Cam Davis, Brice Garnett, Thomas Detry

3:39 p.m. — Aaron Rai, Taylor Pendrith, Christiaan Bezuidenhout

3:51 p.m. — Austin Eckroat, Matt McCarty, Jake Knapp

4:03 p.m. — Robert MacIntyre, Si Woo Kim, Will Zalatoris

4:15 p.m. — Nick Dunlap, Akshay Bhatia, Matt Fitzpatrick

4:27 p.m. — Collin Morikawa, Sam Burns, Patrick Cantlay

4:39 p.m. — Xander Schauffele, Wyndham Clark, Ludvig Åberg

This article was originally published on golfdigest.com