Sentry Tournament field in full as PGA Tour returns without Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm
The PGA Tour makes its return later this week, and the new season will get underway at the Kapalua Plantation Course in Hawaii for the 2024 Sentry Tournament
The 2024 PGA Tour season gets underway later this week, with the Kapalua Plantation Course in Hawaii playing host to The Sentry Tournament.
The opener is one the PGA Tour’s eight signature events, with a reduced, elite field competing for the £15.9 million ($20m) purse. Whilst 60 players qualified to compete at the Tournament, only 59 will tee it up after Rory McIlroy opted to skip the first week of the campaign.
This is not the first time the Northern Irishman has turned down the chance to play Kapalua, having missed the last three editions, with his last appearance coming back in 2019.
McIlroy’s nonattendance won’t shock some however, after the Northern Irishman uncovered he would without a doubt miss the outing to Hawaii while examining the 2024 timetable last August. ” I’d say my timetable will look basically equivalent to it did for this present year,” the four-time significant victor guaranteed the previous summer.
“I’ll no doubt – – I’m not a colossal Hawaii fellow, so I’ll most likely not go to Hawaii.” Rather McIlroy will start his year on the DP World Visit, teeing it up at the following week’s Dubai Invitational prior to protecting his title at the Dubai Desert Exemplary seven days after the fact.
McIlroy will finally return to the PGA Tour following his time in the Middle East in the first week of February, entering the signature event No. 2 of the time, the AT&T Rock Ocean side Favorable to Am. However, mcilroy won’t be the main huge non-attendant in Hawaii this week.
The Guard’s 2023 boss Jon Rahm will likewise not be in the field this Thursday, in the wake of picking to take the action to LIV Golf a month ago. Rahm, who reportedly signed a contract worth £450 million with the breakaway league, was the latest big name to switch to Saudi Arabia.
Subsequent to pursuing the choice to sign with LIV, the Bosses champion followed similar destiny of any semblance of Creeks Koepka, Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson, in being suspended by the PGA Visit. Beside the shortfall of McIlroy and Rahm, 59 players will be in the field this week.
In earlier years, players qualified by winning a PGA Visit occasion from the earlier year, subsequently the occasion’s previous name, the ‘Competition of Champions’. This time around however, the Visit have likewise incorporated the best 50 players from past season’s FedEx Cup, who didn’t win in 2023.
Global No. 1 Scottie Scheffler titles the field, while a gathering of European Ryder Cup stars in Tommy Fleetwood, Tyrrell Hatton, Ludvig Aberg, Matt Fitzpatrick, Viktor Hovland and Justin Rose are likewise in the field. The full section rundown can be found underneath.
Patrick Cantlay
Tommy Fleetwood
Russell Henley
Xander Schauffele
Sungjae Im
Adam Schenk
Tyrrell Hatton
Jordan Spieth
Denny McCarthy
Andrew Putnam
Adam Svensson
Harris English
J.T. Poston
Seamus Power
Cameron Young
Eric Cole
Byeong Hun An
Adam Hadwin
Tom Hoge
Brendon Todd
Cam Davis
Patrick Rodgers
Mackenzie Hughes
Hideki Matsuyama
Ludvig Åberg
Akshay Bhatia
Keegan Bradley
Sam Burns
Wyndham Clark
Corey Conners
Jason Day
Nico Echavarria
Tony Finau
Matt Fitzpatrick
Rickie Fowler
Lucas Glover
Emiliano Grillo
Nick Hardy
Brian Harman
Lee Hodges
Max Homa
Viktor Hovland
Si Woo Kim
Tom Kim
Chris Kirk
Kurt Kitayama
Luke List
Taylor Moore
Collin Morikawa
Vincent Norrman
Davis Riley
Justin Rose
Scottie Scheffler
Sepp Straka
Nick Taylor
Sahith Theegala
Erik van Rooyen
Camilo Villegas
Matt Wallace
