Friends of Hawaii Charities hosted the Sony Open PGA golf tournament in Hawaiʻi for 28 years. Over that time, it raised nearly $28 million in grants for nonprofits in Hawaiʻi that serve children, older people and underserved communities.
But January’s tournament at Waialae Country Club was the last PGA Tour event for Friends of Hawaii Charities. The nonprofit’s president, Corbett Kalama, said it’s because 141 Global, the management company that was in charge of the Sony Open, was forced to shut down.
The reason for that was because the PGA Tour cut the Sony Open from its schedule, as well as The Sentry tournament on Maui. There will be another tournament in Honolulu next year, only it will be a PGA Tour Champions event called the Sony Championship Hawaii…