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Description

The Sentry Tournament of Champions is the calendar-year opening tournament of golf's PGA Tour season, played in Hawaii on the island of Maui.[2] The tournament was founded in 1953; its field is restricted to golfers who won a tournament on the tour during the previous calendar year.[3] From 1986 through 2013, it was the opening event of each tour season; the PGA Tour switched to its wrap-around season (starting season in September and ending in August) in the fall of 2013.
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.
Mercedes-Benz Championship
2009
Geoff Ogilvy
Australia
268
−24
6 strokes
Anthony Kim
Davis Love III
1,120,000
2008
Daniel Chopra
Sweden
274
−18
Playoff
Steve Stricker
1,100,000
2007
Vijay Singh
Fiji
278
−14
2 strokes
Adam Scott
1,100,000