The PGA Tour faces the very real—and yet mostly unprecedented—possibility of canceling one of its biggest events, all due to a water issue that has rendered a resort unusable. It's also exposed some of the challenges of playing tournament golf in Hawaii.
Then there's the reality of the PGA Tour now working as a for-profit business. It made a hasty decision to make the Sentry Tournament at Kapalua on Maui one of its signature events, which included a purse increase that the title sponsor was not on board for. There has been fallout from that.
