The PGA Tour is weighing the possibility of moving the season opener from Maui when the current contract with Mercedes runs out in 2010. Two words come immediately to mind: thank goodness. This tournament has no buzz. Does anyone, except for the game's real diehards, even know that the new golf season has begun? Opening day in the MLS seems to draw more attention.

The folks in Ponte Vedra have to find a way to spice things up, and that might mean moving this event back to the mainland. The Plantation Course at Kapaula is an absolutely breathtaking layout, but maybe breathtaking isn't really the answer here. The answer may be staging the opener at a more traditional venue, where par is truly valued, where there isn't the potential to shoot 31 under as Ernie Els did in 2003.

Such a move would kick off the new season with the kind of lurking danger that makes the game so enticing, and might even guarantee all the big names show up. This year's no-shows included: Phil Mickelson, Sergio Garcia and Padraig Harrington. Tiger Woods, even if he were healthy, wouldn't be in Maui.

Fans love to gaze at the scenes of paradise in Hawaii, but paradise can wait till next week, at the Sony Open in Waialae.

This week should be about drama.