KAPALUA, Hawaii – Here are the lowest nine-hole scores since 1983 at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions. Kevin Na tied the record in Saturday’s second round.

Player	Score	Year	Course	Round	Front or back
Kevin Na	29 (8 under)	2012	Plantation Course	2nd	Back
Vijay Singh	29 (7 under)	2004	Plantation Course	2nd	Back
Mike Weir	29 (7 under)	2002	Plantation Course	1st	Front
Greg Norman	29 (7 under)	1996	La Costa	4th	Front

From a three-time major winner to a promising young rookie, there’s plenty of variety unveiled Monday on PGATOUR.COM’s Top 100 Players to Watch in 2012. Padraig Harrington owns three majors and Retief Goosen has a pair of U.S. Opens to his credit. Winners in the past year on this list also include Jonathan Byrd (Hyundai Tournament of Champions), Martin Laird (Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard), Kevin Na (Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open) and Sean O’Hair (RBC Canadian Open). At the other end of the spectrum is Bud Cauley, who made a splash in a limited number of starts in 2011 but could be poised for a big rookie season. Below is a link to each of the 10 players who were revealed on Monday. PGATOUR.COM will countdown the players for the rest of December, with No. 1 unveiled on Dec. 30. Be sure to check out this year’s new addition of the Three Wise Men – Chris DiMarco, Arron Oberholser and Craig Perks, who offer their takes on each of the players on the list. Let’s us know how you think these players will perform in 2012 and whether we ranked ‘em too high, too low or just right. No. 51: Jonathan Byrd No. 52: Y.E. Yang No. 53: Padraig Harrington No. 54: Martin Laird No. 55: Retief Goosen No. 56: Charles Howell III No. 57: Stewart Cink No. 58: Bud Cauley No. 59: Kevin Na No. 60: Sean O’Hair CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE ARCHIVE PAGE/SCHEDULE FOR THE TOP 100 PLAYERS TO WATCH IN 2012

Fresh off his first PGA TOUR win last week in Las Vegas, Kevin Na was hoping to carry the momentum to this week's Frys.com Open.

Through the first 10 holes, things looked good. He had six birdies -- including four straight at one point -- and was 4 under just after making the turn.

"I was playing awesome," Na said about those first 10 holes.

But he stumbled on his second nine holes, with three bogeys before he birdied his final hole of the day. The wild day -- seven birdies, six pars, five bogeys -- ended with a 2-under 69 that leaves him in good shape going into Friday's second round.

"Oh, wow, that was a crazy round I had today," said Na, who started his round off the 10th tee. "I was hoping for ... just a low-key round, a few birdies here and there and not many bogeys, and man, it was a roller coaster for me today."

The low point came when he bogeyed his 13th hole of the day, the par-4 fourth, when he missed a par putt from inside three feet. He followed with two more bogeys in his next four holes.

"I hit a good putt," Na said. "I felt like I was a little rushed, and I hit a good putt, and it kind of wobbled on me and horseshoed, and that really threw me off."

By Brian Wacker, PGATOUR.COM

SAN MARTIN, Calif. -- The headline story coming into this week’s Frys.com Open is of course Tiger Woods playing for the first time since missing the cut at the PGA Championship and in a Fall Series event for the first time in his career.

Kevin Na is doing his best to steal some of that attention.

Fresh off last week’s win in Las Vegas, Na is tied for the early lead at CordeValle, where he is 3 under after five birdies -- four of them in a row at one point -- and two bogeys through his first eight holes. So Na goes 210 career starts before winning and now he’s in position early to make a run at  a second career win? There’s a long way to go of course but Na is off to a good start.

A  big reason he’s in that position? Because he’s been able to avoid the rough on a wet and chilly morning. So far, he’s hit six fairways and six greens through those first eight holes on the back nine.

“The rough is high,” Na said earlier in the week. “If you hit it in the rough, you're going to be penalized.

“You definitely have to hit some good iron shots because you have to place your ball in a good spot to make putts because the greens are very undulating.”

As for Woods, he won’t tee off until 3:10 p.m. ET off No. 1 with amateur Patrick Cantlay and Louis Oosthuizen.

By Brian Wacker, PGATOUR.COM

SAN MARTIN, Calif. -- Kevin Na’s whiff during the third round last week in Las Vegas got plenty of attention -- “It became a bigger story than it actually is,” said Na, who had done it before but not when leading the tournament. The bigger story of course was getting his first career victory after going 0-for-210.

“A lot of it was between the ears,” Na said Tuesday from the Frys.com Open. “

It was also physical.

“I think it was a little bit of my swing that didn't work coming down the stretch,” Na continued. “A little bit in the head, a little bit unlucky, a little bit of combination of everything. Sometimes you're not playing your best golf and you get lucky and you can get away with it.

“I think it just wasn't time. It wasn't meant to be. That's the only way I can think of it.”

And now that Na has won, he can turn his attention, at least at some point, to making next year’s Ryder Cup team. Should he do so, it would be for the American team even though Na was born in Korea.

When Na turned 18 he had the choice to be an American or Korean citizen. He chose the former, and his family chose to move here mostly because they wanted his older brother to go to college in the U.S. He did, going to UCLA and then graduate school at UNLV before becoming a professor back in Korea.

Na, meanwhile, never finished high school, turning professional before he graduated.

“Worked out good for him,” Na said of his brother. “Worked out just fine for me, too.”

To the victor goes the spoils. Here are some of Kevin Na’s spoils after claiming his first victory at the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open: • $792,000 winner’s check moves him from 50th to 33rd on the TOUR money list • Fully exempt status on the PGA TOUR through the 2013 season • Tee times at the 2012 Hyundai Tournament of Champions, PLAYERS Championship, the Memorial and the PGA Championship among other events • Removed from the list of top money earners without a victory. Na was No. 3 behind Briny Baird and Brett Quigley heading into this week. More on Na’s victory: • Led the field in Strokes Gained – Putting (10.441), taking just 108 putts in his four rounds. • Victory came in Na’s 211th career start. He has 29 top 10s and 58 top 25s • Na had once previously held a lead or co-lead entering the final round. He tied for 2nd at the 2005 Chrysler Classic of Tuscon • He’s the 16th player in his 20s to win on TOUR this year

By Chris Dunham, PGATOUR.COM Three times a runner-up. Five times a third-place finisher. Kevin Na finally broke through with his first PGA TOUR victory Sunday at TPC Summerlin. Na birdied three consecutive holes late in his round, capped by a 40-foot bomb on the par-3 17th, to put away a two-shot victory over Nick Watney at the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open near his home in Las Vegas. “I'm just very excited about my first win,” Na said. “It wasn't easy. Nick was coming right behind me, looked like any time he was going to make a move, and I tried as best as I could to stay one step ahead of him. I think the putt on 17 basically sealed the deal for me.” The 28-year-old who now has 29 top-10 finishes in his 211 career PGA TOUR starts said this week didn’t really feel much different down the stretch than his previous near misses. “Maybe a little bit, but nothing ridiculous different, but I think I was a little more comfortable,” Na said. “Maybe because I was in my hometown, my home course, but I think I was definitely ready. And I was mentally ready, physically ready, and it was just time for me to win.” Na hopes this Fall Series victory leads him to more successes a la Matt Kuchar, who won in the ’09 Fall Series before leading the TOUR money list in 2010, and Bill Haas, who won last year’s Fall Series Opener then went on to claim this year’s FedExCup. “I told everybody, once I get my first win, the wins are going to start rolling in,” Na said. “And I think it's like that for a lot of the guys. You look at a lot of the guys that have struggled, that have been good players that have struggled for their first win, and once they get that first win, it seems like a lot of guys go on and win a bunch of tournaments.” Na won his lone Nationwide Tour event in the western U.S. (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.) and now adds this victory at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas for his second on the major U.S. tours. If the home field advantage thing continues to work, Na has a plan to broaden his range of victories. “Hopefully I'll keep winning,” Na said. “(I’ll try to) keep winning here, and if I want to win a tournament somewhere else, I guess I gotta move to maybe Augusta or something.” For now, Na will settle for his newfound residency among the champions of the PGA TOUR.

By Chris Dunham, PGATOUR.COM Nick Watney didn’t have something to pin the loss on, but he knows he didn’t convert his chances Sunday at TPC Summerlin. Watney’s back-nine 34 was his highest total on that side this week. He took a disappointing par for the second day in a row on the drivable par-4 15th but was in position to again tie for the lead on the par-3 17th. While looking at a putt inside 20 feet on, Watney saw leader Kevin Na hole a 40-footer, his third consecutive birdie, to pull two shots ahead. Watney was unable to answer, missing his birdie try, before both players parred the 18th. Na was the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open champion and Watney was two shots shy of a third 2011 victory. “Well, I didn't make as many putts as I would have liked, and Kevin made a bunch of them,” Watney said. “So all the credit goes to him … It’s definitely disappointing, but you know, I just take what I can learn and go on to the next one.” There were some lessons to be learned for the four-time TOUR winner. Watney was playing in his seventh event in nine weeks and Sunday’s runner-up finish was just his second top 10 in that stretch. That’s a far cry from the numbers Watney had in January through July: 15 starts, eight top 10s and two victories. “I learned how serious I was taking it, how badly I wanted to play well the last couple months, an that didn’t always translate into good golf,” Watney said. “So this week I came in here with no expectations. I just took it very easy and played pretty nice. So I’m going to (try and) take it a little more easy and hopefully this will carry over into China.” Nick Watney has the World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions (Nov. 3-6) in China and the Presidents Cup in Australia (Nov. 17-20) on his upcoming schedule That Presidents Cup appearance, the first for the world’s 11th-ranked golfer, is something Watney is looking forward to. He talked about “tightening up” his wedge game to give himself a chance at being a bigger contributor at Royal Melbourne. “I think it's definitely cliche, but I just have to take care of myself and win the matches that I can,” Watney said. “We're definitely going over there to win, and you know, that's what we want to do. But as far as I'm concerned, just need to try and win my matches and hopefully we'll get enough points.”

This long birdie putt on the 71st hole helped to lift Kevin Na to his first career PGA TOUR victory.

Kevin Na is a first-time PGA TOUR winner in his eighth season, winning the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospital for Children Open in his hometown Las Vegas. Want to congratulate him? Leave a comment below and we’ll pass it along to Na.