Waialae Country Club in Honolulu has hosted a PGA Tour event since 1965, but on Wednesday, the Tour and Sony Group Corporation announced that the event will switch over to a PGA Tour Champions event starting in January 2027.

The Sony Championship Hawaii, to be held on Jan. 11-16, will feature a $3 million purse.

“We are excited to welcome the Sony Championship Hawaii to PGA Tour Champions,” PGA Tour Champions president Miller Brady said in a statement. “Sony has been an incredible PGA Tour partner since 1999, and we are looking forward to beginning this new era with the legends of the game competing on a truly iconic venue in Waialae Country Club.”

Among the past winners at Waialae Country Club are Hall of Famers Jack Nicklaus and Lee Trevino, along with current Champions Tour standouts Ernie Els, Jim Furyk, Vijay Singh, Zach Johnson and K.J. Choi. Chris Gotterup won the Sony Open in Hawaii at 16 under in January.

The Sony Championship Hawaii, which will mark the sixth PGA Tour Champions event to be held on a course that formerly hosted a PGA Tour event, will feature a field of 78 PGA Tour Champions players. Pro-Ams are scheduled for Jan. 12 and 13, with three competition rounds slated for Jan. 14-16.

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Junior Caminero became the youngest player in major league history to homer in six consecutive games, with a two-run shot in the first, and Shane McClanahan allowed three hits over six strong innings, as the visiting Tampa Bay Rays won their seventh straight, 4-0 over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday night.

At 22 years, 361 days old, Caminero topped a mark set by then-23-year-old Ken Griffey Jr. (23 years, 246 days) with his ninth home run in the last eight games. The historic shot came just three batters into the game.

After Jonathan Aranda (two hits) roped a one-out single to center field, Caminero drove the first pitch he saw from Seth Lugo (3-6) well into the left field seats to give Tampa Bay a 2-0 lead. Caminero has hit six of his 24 home runs in six games versus Kansas City this season.

Cedric Mullins added a solo shot in the sixth and an RBI single in the eighth, while Taylor Walls had three hits for the Rays, who matched their longest winning streak of 2026, and secured their first road series win since May 11-13, when they took two of three at Toronto.

McClanahan (7-5), meanwhile, yielded three singles, did not walk a batter and struck out four. The left-hander, who missed the past two seasons due to injuries, was given extra rest after he allowed six runs (two earned) and three homers over six innings of Tampa Bay’s 12-5 loss at Kansas City on June 23.

Cole Sulser, Garrett Cleavinger and Kevin Kelly (four saves) combined to allow three hits to the Royals, who have lost six of seven, including four straight against the Rays. Jac Caglianone had two of the Royals’ six hits.

Lugo threw 23 pitches during the first inning, then settled down and stymied the Rays until the sixth. That’s when he yielded a two-out shot to Mullins that found the right field bullpen.

The veteran right-hander gave up nine hits and struck out seven without a walk in six innings.

Kansas City put runners on first and second with less than two outs in both the eighth and ninth, but Kelly thwarted both potential rallies.

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Trea Turner homered for the third straight game as the Philadelphia Phillies hammered Paul Skenes in a 10-6 victory over the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday.

Brandon Marsh and Alec Bohm also hit home runs for Philadelphia, which tagged Skenes (6-8) for eight runs (seven earned) in four innings. The reigning National League Cy Young Award winner had never allowed more than five runs in any of his first 72 MLB starts.

Jared Triolo drove in three runs, and Nick Gonzales had three hits and an RBI for Pittsburgh, which will try to split the four-game series when the teams return to the field Thursday afternoon. Henry Davis homered for the Pirates in a losing effort.

The Phillies loaded the bases with one out against Skenes in the second inning. Justin Crawford then rolled a grounder to third base, but Gonzales’ throw to the plate hit the runner, allowing two runs to score.

The next hitter was Turner, who launched Skenes’ 0-1 sweeper into the seats in left field to extend the lead to 5-0.

Pittsburgh quickly got two runs back in the third, highlighted by Davis’ solo homer, but Marsh’s blast in the bottom half and Bryce Harper’s two-run double in the fourth pushed the lead to 8-2.

Zack Wheeler got the first two outs of the fifth, but he allowed singles to the next three batters. The final hit in that stretch was Gonzales’ RBI single that ended Wheeler’s night after just 4 2/3 innings.

The veteran right-hander was charged with four runs and nine hits, although he recorded 10 of his 14 outs via strikeout.

Kyle Backhus came on and hit two straight batters to force in a run as the visitors got within 8-4.

Backhus and Seth Johnson got the Phillies through the sixth inning, but Johnson ran into issues in the seventh. He allowed a pair of one-out walks, followed by Triolo’s two-run double as the margin narrowed to 8-6.

Orion Kerkering (6-0) jogged out of the bullpen and got the final two outs of the inning. He then worked a 1-2-3 eighth while throwing just eight pitches.

Bohm’s eighth-inning, two-run blast off Dennis Santana created some breathing room for Philadelphia closer Jhoan Duran, who slammed the door in the ninth.

–Field Level Media