Taylor Pendrith won’t win The Sentry on Sunday, but he will go home with distinction. Pendrith recorded the first albatross in tournament history at Kapalua, which began hosting the PGA Tour’s season opener in 1999,

Starting now, you can divide the 27-year history of Kapalua hosting a PGA Tour event into two distinct eras: The pre-albatross era, which is everything before Sunday, and the post-albatross era, which is everything after Taylor Pendrith's remarkable 2 on the 520-yard par-5 fifth.

A new season has begun on the PGA Tour, and while the setting at the Sentry remains pristine, laid-back and undisputedly Hawaiian, the stakes are high: a $20 million purse, with $3.6 million to the winner.