Mercedes Championship Preview

published 3 January 2007

TOURNAMENT: Mercedes-Benz Championship

HOST COURSE: Plantation Course at Kapalua, Hawaii

After months of hype the FedEx Cup gets underway with the Mercedes-Benz Championship. Stuart Appleby (pictured) will look to continue his phenomenal form at the event as he attempts to take the title for the fourth consecutive year. The tournament only includes winners from 2006, leaving a relatively small 32-man field competing for the $5,500,000 purse, including 13 debutants. Tiger Woods has withdrawn from the event, leaving world number two Jim Furyk as favourite.

Paul joined Golf Monthly in 2006 in a junior role and has since worked as senior staff writer and now as technical editor. He writes equipment and instruction content and tests the vast majority of golf clubs that are introduced every year.