The PGA Tour strikes from Maui to Honolulu for the Sony Open in Hawaii.
The Tour kick-started 2025 with The Sentry, open to ’24 winners and gamers who completed inside the highest 50 in FedExCup factors. The Sony is first full-field occasion of the season, with 144 gamers competing for a $8.7 million purse.
Whereas seven Korn Ferry Tour and Q-College graduates are at the moment on the alternate record, it’s a marked enchancment from final yr when 21 of these reorder-category gamers had been out of the preliminary area. KFT grads Noah Goodwin and Aldrich Potgieter are amongst this yr’s sponsor exemptions, as is Q-College grad Takumi Kanaya.
At the least to date, it seems that the PGA Tour lowering the variety of FedExCup finishers who keep totally exempt standing from 125 to 100 has not elevated the urgency of present members to play extra occasions.
Right here’s a take a look at the preliminary area record at Waialae Nation Membership:
The Sony Open in Hawaii, the second occasion of the 2025 PGA TOUR Season and first Full-Area Occasion, marks the primary alternative for gamers to earn FedExCup factors in direction of the Aon Swing 5.
Area for the Sony Open in Hawaii: pic.twitter.com/lfzwIn0ydL
— PGA TOUR Communications (@PGATOURComms) January 3, 2025
