Graeme McDowell, coming off a dream season, is working at getting to know his new Cleveland/Srixon equipment, having switched from Callaway when his contract ran out at the end of last year. "I'm sure people are scratching their heads," he said of the change, which will take him back to the Cleveland clubs he played in college.
Steve Stricker is working to knock the rust off after his usual winter break in Madison, Wis. He is most definitely not working on his tan. "I'm not really a big beach guy," he said Tuesday. "You know, taking my shirt off, laying there on the beach, that's really not my style. You know, I'll go to the beach and wear my clothes there."
Everyone seems to be working on something heading into the Hyundai, but for the most part they're not working very hard. It is Hawaii, after all, and Kapalua is the land of hyphenated temptation (whale-watching, zip-lining), which renders the week's results not moot, exactly, but certainly not as important as usual. At Augusta National and elsewhere players are asked to find their nerve; at warm, breezy Kapalua they're asked which is more important on a working vacation, the work or the vacation?Last year's winners kick off 2011 with working vacation at Kapalua
