KAPALUA, Hawaii — Geoff Ogilvy has 12 stitches in his finger. Zach Johnson cut a hole in his shoe to accommodate his bum toe.

Hawaii isn’t paradise for everyone at the PGA Tour’s season opener.

The 2011 season gets under way today on the Plantation Course at Kapalua with a 34-man field of tour winners from last year. Robert Garrigus was the last one to get in, winning at Disney in the final event of the year. Ogilvy was the first to qualify by winning the Tournament of Champions a year ago by one shot.

He has a chance to join Stuart Appleby as the only players to win three successive years at Kapalu.

Ogilvy headed for the beach on Tuesday and cut his right index finger on some coral.

He received more stitches than he needed as a precaution, and after another trip to the doctor, opted to rest until today.

“It’s not ideal,” said his manager, Paul Galli. “It’s not so much a big cut, it’s just in an awkward position.”

The Tournament of Champions has not been without its defending champion since Jerry Barber didn’t play in 1961.

Johnson also hurt himself in a tropical paradiset. He was in the Caymans Islands on a family holiday last week when fireworks left a trash can smoldering. He grabbed a hose and was running to the rescue, in pitch dark wearing flip-flops, when he slammed into a concrete step he didn’t see and tore off his toe nail.