Sony Open flips over to PGA Tour Champions event

HONOLULU (AP) -- The golf season in Hawaii again starts at Waialae Country Club next year as a PGA Tour Champions event that will be called the Sony Championship.

The PGA Tour and Sony on Wednesday announced the change, which had been expected since April when the tour said it would not be returning to Maui for The Sentry, which since 1999 had preceded the Sony Open.

The Sony Championship will be Jan.

14-16 -- ending on a Saturday -- at Waialae, which had hosted a PGA Tour event since 1965.

The ...