Poulter goes above and beyond to make up for schedule violation

KAPALUA, Hawaii — Part of Ian Poulter’s punishment for violating a PGA Tour policy is spending two weeks in Hawaii to start the new year.

That would be a most literal interpretation of the penalty.

And it only tells part of the story of how Poulter chose to make up for missing a tournament he was supposed to play.

Along with adding two tournaments he had not played in the last four years — one of them, happily, was the winners-only field at Kapalua — Poulter hosted eight tournament guests for a round of golf at his home club in Florida, lunch and a tour of the house where he keeps his Ferraris and Ryder Cup memorabilia.

“I would say it was beyond what we would consider an acceptable make-good,”…