The PGA Tour’s first occasion of the season will function 60 gamers on the Plantation course at Kapalua.
The Tour launched on Friday the preliminary full area for The Sentry, which might be contested Jan. 2-5 in Maui, Hawaii. Golf Channel protection will start Thursday at 6 p.m. ET.
That is the third consecutive 12 months that the occasion might be held with an expanded area. The Sentry was lengthy performed as a winners-only event however is now open to qualifiers from the highest 50 within the earlier season’s FedExCup factors listing.
This 12 months’s Sentry area contains 31 PGA Tour winners from 2024 and 29 gamers by way of the FEC standings, in keeping with the Tour. It’s the first of eight signature occasions on the season and gives a $20,000,000 purse with $3,600,000 to the winner.
World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler is not going to be current as he sustained a right-hand damage on Christmas Day and needed to endure surgical procedure. He’ll return for The American Specific, Jan. 16-19, in keeping with his agent, Blake Smith.
Viktor Hovland, nonetheless, was nonetheless listed within the area regardless of posting on Instagram what gave the impression to be a damaged pinky toe.
Right here’s a take a look at the preliminary full area for the season-opener:
Subject for the The Sentry 2025, the primary occasion of the 2025 FedExCup Season.
The 60-player area options 31 PGA TOUR event winners, together with 15 first-time winners, and 29 gamers who certified by ending inside the highest 50 within the 2024 FedExCup standings. pic.twitter.com/zsLlDCzWpe
— PGA TOUR Communications (@PGATOURComms) December 27, 2024