A new year on the PGA Tour raises some questions

After his 2014, they’ll compare 2015.

Dustin Johnson prevailed in the weather-shortened 2013 Hyundai Tournament of Champions and returns this week for another shot at Kapalua’s Plantation Course. He played in Hong Kong, Malaysia, twice in China, Dubai and The Bahamas in a seven-week span, and then went home for three weeks before resuming his year.

“The only way I can keep things moving that way is if I want it just as much or more and I keep working as hard or harder than I have before”.

His goal for 2016 is more of the same.

“I think I’m trying to still learn how to adjust”, he said. That’s the general public, so I give you my perspective as being in the general public for somebody else.

But the extent to which Spieth is playing around the world is also indicative of how overseas tournaments have been able to lure top-ranked Americans away from Tour events, typically in the fall and early winter.

The competition is strong as ever. He had five wins and 18 top top-10 finishes a year ago.

With a plethora of big names – led by Jordan Spieth and Jason Day – committed to the field, the PGA Tour is sure to kick off 2016 with a bang. And surprisingly he felt badly that he wasn’t in Hawaii last January.

The 22-year-old Texan is well aware of the attention that will be heaped on him when he starts a new year at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions.

The field is restricted to players who won a tournament during the previous season, making it a high quality affair.

Here are some golfers you should consider putting on your card this week. “Great way to start the season”. Instead they develop over time and with 20-somethings like Spieth, Day, McIlroy and Rickie Fowler, time is certainly something that is on their side.

“The reason I’m not staying at Bayern is very simple: I want to coach in England in the Premier League”. His final tweet of 2015: “Would rather this year not end”.

“We figured out that specifically my wedge play needs to get better, proximity to the hole and up-and-down percentage, from 60 to 140 yards or so”.

Last year: Patrick Reed beat Jimmy Walker on the first playoff hole.

“We had the screws out, we had the toolbox out, and we unpacked it and put it together, and I didn’t have a ping-pong table”. But he doesn’t have the stats. That would show his strength relative to the field. We just nailed down specifics on what I need to work on each week and we kind of picked a plan that I’m going to go through each week. He’s got better vibes there than anyone on the PGA Tour for the last two seasons. Day has more rust than anyone at Kapalua because he hasn’t played since the Presidents Cup on October 11.

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Jason Day, who hasn’t played an individual tournament since East Lake on September 27, can replace Spieth at No. 1 by winning the Tournament of Champions.

Spieth has been in Hawaii since last Wednesday.

Due to niggling injuries I played less golf and on fewer golf courses than usual in 2015 but the most enjoyable ones were: 1-Dinard, Northern Brittany; 2-St.Emilion, near Bordeaux; 3-Dooks in County Kerry. “I told my caddie the first goal was to get all the plastic, the green stuff, off the bottom of my clubs because they’ve been hit off the mat for a week”.