The First Round at Kapalua
January 4, 2008 by Sandy Mitchell
It wasn’t exactly a perfect day in Paradise. The skies opened up frequently during round one of the Mercedes-Benz Championship, the first PGA Tour date of 2008, being played at the Plantation Course on Maui’s Kapalua Bay Resort (pictured above on a much sunnier day). The deluge produced striking rainbows, but also left the the greens soggy and slow. Veterans of the course, including last year’s winner Vijay Singh, seemed confused about playing under those water-logged conditions.
Still, after over a month’s hiatus, it was great to see the first drive of the new season. Highlights of the …read more