Ernie Els has already punched his ticket back to the season-opening SBS Championship at Kapalua.
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EmailCertainly, only a small dent has been put into the PGA Tour season and there’s no reason to look beyond 2010. Unless, of course, you’ve already had your tournament and are studying 2011. In which case, it’s worth noting that the SBS Championship has built itself a pretty impressive nucleus and we’re not even out of March.
Consider that over the first 12 tournaments, the winners have included seven players who are currently ranked within the top 30 in the world. A lot of tournament directors would love to know they already had Steve Stricker (2), Ian Poulter (6), Ernie Els (8), Camilo Villegas (12), Geoff Ogilvy (13), Hunter Mahan (21), and Dustin Johnson (29) qualified, so the folks at the SBS Championship have reason to smile.
In fact, when it was mentioned to Liezl Els that her husband’s win at the CA Championship would return them to the season-opener, she smiled warmly and pumped her fist. “We are going back to Kapaula,” she said. “It is great.”
Couldn’t agree more.
