Hawaii local Chan Kim made the cut at the Sony Open for the first time in his career this week.
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The PGA Tour’s first full-field event of the new season brings with it a host of players looking to get 2025 off to solid start.
While last week’s the Sentry had just 59 of the top players and winners from last season, the Sony Open has a full field of 144 players, many rookies just getting their PGA Tour career started.
And while this week doesn’t feature the $20 million mega purse of last week’s Signature Event, a high finish can still set the tone ahead of the PGA Tour’s trim down from 125 to 100 exempt players after this season.
And that’s key for someone like Hawaii local Chan Kim, a second-year Tour member who made the cut this week for the first time as a PGA Tour member.
“As the season opener, just to start off getting some points, that’s a really big boost in confidence,” the 15th-year pro said Saturday.
Kim finished in a tie for 53rd this week after a 68 Sunday which will net him $20,388.50 for his troubles. Nothing crazy, but it starts his year off in the plus column as heads to the airport for a redeye to travel to next week’s American Express.
With that, below is the complete payout breakdown for this week’s Sony Open In Hawaii. The total purse is $8.7 million.
How much every player made at the 2025 Sony Open in Hawaii
Win: Nick Taylor $1,566,000
2. Nico Echavarria $948,300
T3. J.J. Spaun $513,300 Stephan Jaeger
5. Eric Cole $356,700
T6. Jackson Suber $281,587.50 Adam Schenk Patrick Fishburn Keegan Bradley
T10. Jesper Svensson $195,025 Nick Dunlap Paul Peterson Russell Henley Lee Hodges Harry Hall
T16. Hideki Matsuyama $132,675 Webb Simpson Alex Smalley Denny McCarthy Gary Woodland
T21. C.T. Pan $80,088.33 Sam Ryder Mark Hubbard Zach Johnson Mac Meissner Kensei Hirata Matt Kuchar Lucas Glover Brian Harman
T30. Adam Svensson $52,137.86 Brice Garnett $56,985 Sepp Straka $54,375 Andrew Putnam $51,765 Erik van Rooyen $49,590 Bud Cauley $47,415 Keith Mitchell $45,240
T37. Nate Lashley $36,975 Vincent Norrman Justin Lower Kurt Kitayama Sahith Theegala Henrik Norlander James Hahn Ryan Gerard
T45. Taylor Pendrith $24,381.75 Tom Hoge $27,405 Kevin Roy $25,665 Ben Griffin $24,273 Jeremy Paul $23,055 David Lipsky $22,359 Frankie Capan III $21,837 Maverick McNealy $21,315
T53. Kevin Streelman $20,388.50 Brandt Snedeker $20,619 Thomas Detry $20,445 Chan Kim $20,271 Robert MacIntyre $20,097 Ben Kohles $19,923
T59. Rico Hoey $19,314 Charley Hoffman Ben Martin Adam Hadwin Sam Stevens Thomas Rosenmueller
T65. Matt McCarty $18,444 Taylor Montgomery Tom Kim Ryo Hisatsune
69. Ben Silverman $18,009
T70. Cristobal Del Solar $17,748 Greyson Sigg
T72. Doug Ghim $17,226 Luke List Taylor Dickson Vince Whaley
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