SportsLine's proven model simulated the 2025 Sony Open 10,000 times and revealed its surprising PGA Tour golf picks

Hideki Matsuyama has won the first PGA Tour event of 2025, capturing the Sentry while also setting the PGA Tour record for the lowest score to par at 35 under. Now, he has a chance to complete the Hawaii sweep this week when he tees it up at the Sony Open, an event he won in 2022.

Tournament introductionExpert picks and predictionsFanDuel odds to winTournament format and previewCourse and conditionsThe PGA TOUR started coming to Waialae Country Club back in 1965. The Seth Raynor design (1927) has not changed much and as a result the Sony Open is the second most predictive tournament on the PGA TOUR schedule.

Hideki Matsuyama is the favorite at the Sony Open in Hawaii after winning The Sentry last week. Dennis Esser has picks for the tournament.

The PGA Tour remains in Hawaii for the second straight week as the 2025 Sony Open takes place at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu beginning on Thursday. Hideki Matsuyama is coming off a historic win at Kapalua last week,

The PGA Tour's Hawaiian Swing makes its second stop this week at the Sony Open, at the historic Waialae Country Club. Last week's winner at The Sentry, Hideki Matsuyama, leads 35 players who competed at the short-field opening event in Maui and are making the quick hop to Honolulu for the first full-field tournament of the season.

The start of the PGA Tour season continues the familiar ebbs and flows golf fans know for another tournament out in Hawaii, following last week's The Sentry thi

We'd love to be celebrating a Week 1 cash right now on Collin Morikawa, who two of our experts were on at The Sentry. Unfortunately, Hideki Matsuyama had other plans. With his dominant victory, Matsuyama has earned top favorite honors for the Sony Open,