Sony Open: Golf One And Done Picks Strategy (2025)

Golf One And Done pool pick strategy for the 2025 Sony Open, the first full-field event with a cut, and a $8.7 million prize purse.

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The 2025 PGA Tour continues in Hawaii with the Sony Open on the island of Oahu, offering a stark contrast to last week’s birdie-heavy Sentry Tournament of Champions. Unlike Maui’s elevation challenges, Honolulu’s course features a flatter layout, closer scoring to par, and marks the season’s first full-field event with a cut. That makes for plenty of new options in your One and Done pools.

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Sony Open One And Done Picks Strategy: Purse Info

The Sony Open has a total prize purse of $8,700,000, with $1,566,000 going to 1st place.

It is the first full-field event of 2025, and the first of three in a row that will feature a cut. The prize purse puts it in the bottom half of the non-Signature Event tournaments in 2025, so you want to manage your future value usage in this one, in addition to taking golfers you think have a reasonable chance of contending.

If you want to see where this tournament’s purse ranks in your specific One And Done pool, you can set up your pool entry in our Golf One And Done Picks product.

Sony Open Overview For One And Done Pools

This analysis serves as a complement to the data provided in our product, which provides customized weekly pick grades that consider factors like:

• The total number of picks you need to make this season
• The specific tournaments included in your pool
• The golfers you’ve already picked so far (once the season is underway)

Here are some notable highlights for the 2025 Sony Open field:

• 144 golfers are in the field, with about half of the players that finished in the Top 50 last year participating.
• Only three players ranked inside our Top 15 are playing this week (Hideki Matsuyama, Corey Conners, and Russell Henley), but 17 others who are ranked in our Top 50 in Strokes Gained power rating are playing the Sony.
• Grayson Murray won this event last year, just months before his tragic death. He beat both Byeong-Hun An and Keegan Bradley in a playoff, two golfers who are in this year’s field.
• Si Woo Kim (2023), Hideki Matsuyama (2022), Patton Kizzire (2018), and Russell Henley (2013) are the past champions of this event who are playing this week.
• Matsuyama, Conners, Tom Kim, Henley, and An are the top five in tournament win odds as of Monday.

2025 Sony Open One And Done Picks Advice