Rookies have reigned in the 34th season of the Champions Tour. Next week’s Pacific Links Hawaii Championship will feature the debut of one of the most formidable rookies of all.

Vijay Singh, who often spends off time beating golf balls by his Big Island home, will make Pacific Links his first Champions event. Singh turned 50 on Feb. 22. He is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame and has been playing full-time on the regular tour this season, with his best finish a tie for 20th at the Sony Open in Hawaii.

Singh won at Sony in 2005 and claimed the 2007 Mercedes-Benz Championship at Kapalua. He is third on the PGA Tour career money list and has 34 wins, most of any international player. All but 12 have come since he turned 40, including the 2004 PGA Championship.

He couldn’t come to Kapolei Golf Club at a better time. Rookies have won a record seven times this season, including the last four events. Rocco Mediate was the first to win, in February. He was victorious in his debut and doubled up three weeks ago in Calgary.

Esteban Toledo also has two rookie titles, becoming the first Mexican-born golfer to win on the tour at the Insperity Championship, which finished on Cinco de Mayo. Last week, he beat Kenny Perry in a playoff at the Montreal Championship.

Perry leads the money list, followed by Bernhard Langer and David Frost. All have committed to Pacific Links, which will have its final players’ list Friday. Willie Wood is defending champ after going bogey-free last year to chase down Bill Glasson. It was Wood’s second win in a month, after going 309 tournaments without.

In January, John Cook ended a 17-month drought with a playoff win over Frost at the season-opening Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai. Cook will try to become the first to sweep Hawaii events since Loren Roberts in 2006. Hale Irwin won at Hualalai and Kaanapali in 1997.

Kapolei will be Isao Aoki’s first start of the season. He had to withdraw before the final round at Kapolei last year with a hip injury. It will also be the first start for TV analyst Ian Baker-Finch, who has only played in one other stroke-play event on the Champions Tour.

Two-time Hawaiian Open champ Corey Pavin has taken a month off, but comes here with a streak of four straight top-three finishes. He also has eight consecutive rounds in the 60s, tying Langer for the best sub-70 run this year.

There have been 12 different winners at the 19 official events so far this season. Langer, Frost, Perry, Mediate and Toledo have won twice. Last season eight golfers won twice, including Player of the Year Tom Lehman, but it was the first time since 1980 that no one captured three titles.

This is the 11th Champions stop on Oahu, starting with the Ko Olina Senior Invitational. The Turtle Bay Championship ran seven years on the North Shore, with Irwin winning six times. He has won 12 events and nearly $4.5 million in Hawaii. The last of his 45 senior wins came at Hualalai.

A Pre-Qualifier for the Pacific Links will be played Sunday at Pearl Country Club, with top finishers advancing to the tournament’s Monday qualifier at Kapolei.