The PGA Tour is planning to abandon the traditional season-opening swing in Hawaii from 2027, it said Monday.<\/p>\n
The Sentry tournament on Maui has been scrapped, said a PGA Tour statement, which added that talks were taking place to transform the Sony Open tournament into part of the PGA Tour Champions circuit for veteran golfers.<\/p>\n
The Sentry has been held every year from 1999 to 2025 at The Plantation Course at Kapalua but was cancelled this season because of water restrictions on the drought-stricken island.<\/p>\n
The Sony Open has been held at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu since 1971 and was the PGA Tour’s opening event in 2026, won by Chris Gotterup.<\/p>\n
“We are grateful to The Plantation Course at Kapalua, Kapalua Resort, Maui County and the state of Hawaii for their longtime support of our season-opening PGA Tour event, as well as the fans, partners and volunteers across Maui who have supported the event throughout the years,” the Tour said.<\/p>\n
The move away from Hawaii had been widely rumored and PGA Tour chief executive Brian Rolapp last month signalled the American-based circuit’s desire to look at other venues to launch the season.<\/p>\n
He wanted the tour to start, he said, with a “marquee event at an iconic venue in the west.”<\/p>\n
The tour will announce its full 2027 schedule at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The PGA Tour is planning to abandon the traditional season-opening swing in Hawaii from 2027, it said Monday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[3587,3344,44,2335,1331,3594,3591,3425,2682,1704,2852,144,2336,2848,2874,3592,3590,56,3593,3589,2334,2851,1330,3588],"class_list":["post-6122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-sentry","tag-afp","tag-competitions","tag-golf","tag-golf-tournaments","tag-hawaii","tag-hawaii-counties","tag-individual-sports","tag-kapalua-resort","tag-maui","tag-maui-county","tag-outdoor-sports","tag-pga-tour","tag-pga-tour-events","tag-precision-sports","tag-professional-golf","tag-professional-golf-tours","tag-professional-sports-organizations","tag-sports","tag-sports-competition-series","tag-sports-competitions","tag-sports-events","tag-summer-sports","tag-the-sentry","tag-tournament-of-champions-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}