Expectations rise as the calendar changes to 2017 in the PGA Tour's overlapping season and the intensity will be on display in the SBS Tournament of Champions beginning Thursday at the Plantation Course at Kapalua Resort in Maui, Hawaii.
The tournament field is limited to 32 players, each of whom were victorious at least once on the PGA Tour in the 2016 calendar year, including the seven official events played in the fall.
It's a clique inside a clique, a showcase for Alpha golfers separated from their peers by recent success - and the players obviously love being here.