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The Hyundai Tournament of Champions is the calendar-year opening tournament of golf's PGA Tour season. Founded as the Tournament of Champions in 1953, the field is restricted to golfers who won a tournament on the tour during the previous season. Prior to 2013, when the PGA switched to an October–September season, the tournament was the opening event of the PGA Tour. ==History== The Hyundai 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, after which it moved to its current location in Hawaii. 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. Starting in 2012, the tournament is a four-day Friday–Monday format. The format allows the tournament to have its own day to finish, and not compete against the second day of the NFL Wild Card Playoff round, one of two PGA Tour FedEx Cup events (the Deutsche Bank Championship the other) to use the Friday-Monday format. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hyundai Tournament of Champions」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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