PGA to launch season in Hawaii

KAPALUA, Hawaii -- It all starts today along the rugged coastline of west Maui, where 32 PGA Tour winners gather for the season-opening Mercedes Championships.

With Masters champion Tigers Woods, British Open champ David Duval, PGA champion David Toms, and U.S. Open champion Retief Goosen, all four major champions are in the field at the Plantation Course at Kapalua

The only two winners who didn't show were Phil Mickelson, who wants to spend time with his family, and Jose Coceres, who broke his arm playing soccer a couple of weeks ago in Argentina.

As for the young, emerging stars who are supposed to be challenging Woods, only two are here -- Sergio Garcia, who seems much older than his 21 years, and David Gossett, the former U.S. Amateur champion who won the John Deere Classic.