Paradise -- lost. In essence, that is the ultimate result of a year without a PGA TOUR tournament won.
The 2009 season begins with a tournament, the Mercedes-Benz Championship at Kapalua on the Hawaiian island of Maui, that is a poignant reminder of how the previous season ended.
With a victory. Or, painfully, without a victory.
Winners only. That's the Mercedes-Benz Championship at Kapalua.
You win on the PGA TOUR in '08, you're starting the season on Maui in '09. Jim Furyk isn't. And Steve Stricker isn't. And Hunter Mahan isn't. And, understandably, Luke Donald -- after months of rehabilitation after surgery on his right wrist -- isn't.
Even though each had been included in the past.
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Start to 2009 will be harder for some of the '08 winless
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